Lately libraries have been in the news and thankfully it is not just because funding has been cut, a naked guy stole a four pound block of cheese (it is unconfirmed if he was researching a follow-up to Who Moved My Cheese) or another guy peed on books.
Libraries do great things daily, so it [...]
by Andi on April 10, 2010
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Who would think Rolling Stone’s Keith Richards’ life-long dream is to be a librarian?! Librarians of course
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser.
From [...]
by Andi on April 2, 2010
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April 11-17, 2010 is National Library Week with the theme of “Communities thrive @ your library.” Author, Neil Gaiman will serve as the Honory Chair.
Our library does celebrate National Library Week in terms of special programming for the public, but as part of the social media team I plan to our library strut its [...]
This week our library got in The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl and those of who follow her blog or check it were excited to see it. I was planning to scope it out to get it for my mom for Christmas. The layout of the book is wonderful, plenty of [...]
As a librarian who looks for display inspiration everywhere, two blogs that I look forward to for their movie-inspired posts are Hooked on Houses features houses from movies and TV shows and knitwear in movies from Vickie Howell.
Do you read or write a blog that highlights a certain topic (board games, vehicles, fashion, holidays, [...]
by Andi on August 29, 2009
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Pharmasis (my sister) is so fancy important that her lunches are catered in every day so companies can talk to her. My biggest highlight of the day is when my coworkers ask me what I’m having for lunch and/or when one fake twists my arm to leave for lunch.
This got me thinking that [...]