In the year 2257, a girl named Elva Sheppard and a boy named Troy Branden are suddenly plucked away from their homes and sent to a mysterious school called Greywyn Academy of Magic. The school is populated by...
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...
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...