Haunted by a love of reading inspired by her nurturing Aunt Belle, Director Natalie Drew fought to keep her small library relevant and funded to meet technology and maintenance challenges. A simple act of respect...
Some people were simply charmed with an overabundance of luck, serendipity. Who could explain it? Georgina Mars was one such person. Whether it was finding a ten-dollar bill along a curb, or getting her name...
Contains 34 dispatches of "Dispatches from a Public Librarian" from McSweeney's contributer, Scott Douglas. The book also includes several other library themed essays.
In one of history’s most incandescent bursts of library-building, the post-revolutionary Mexico of the 1920s created some two thousand new libraries in less than four years. This project’s driving force...
Satire from a librarian in a large bureaucracy, trying to survive boring meetings, clueless managers, reorganisations, offshored helpdesks and l-users (library users). New - updated version contains 8 months...
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