April 09, 2014 » MobyLives! Archives

The time for Mayor de Blasio to make a decision on the $150 million the city originally pledged to the NYPL’s Central Library Plan is growing nearer, and the pressure… Read more »

Libraries & librarians

A $500,000 grant will help NYU Abu Dhabi make books in Arabic available to displaced populations all over the world — Francesca Capossela
The San Bernardino Libraries have received a $10,000 grant for bilingual books — Emily Hoffman
A Forbes contributor has suggested replacing libraries with Amazon bookstores — Michael Seidlinger
Books Revisited, the all-volunteer, library-sustaining bookstore of Alamogordo, New Mexico, is back in business! — Gaia Steinfeld DeNisi

New York Library Director calls for libraries to buy “fair use books”

Claire Kelley

Richard J. Naylor is the Director of the William K. Sanford Town Library in Loundonville New York and the author of a proclamation concerning e-content in libraries passed by the… Read more »

Can books and libraries help restore Baghdad’s cultural heritage?

Nick Davies

A young government employee in Iraq has set out to bring the city of Baghdad back to its past, using books and a makeshift library to establish it once again… Read more »

Is the way we read online hurting our capacity for deep reading?

Are all of the hours we’re logging online – hopping from hyperlink to hyperlink, communicating in a never-ending cascade of 140-character chunks—harming our ability to read and comprehend anything more… Read more »

Pets are not toasters: David Grimm on the fight for animal rights

Sadie Mason-Smith

David Grimm, author of Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs, believes what every person who calls their dog or cat their “fur-baby” has been telling you for… Read more »

Melville House Books

April 9, 2014

Allies of de Blasio call on him to defund Central Library Plan, give money to branch libraries

Sal Robinson