Rent the Runway, but for job interviews, courtesy of your public library
Ditch the career counselor. Grab a library card instead. According to Kristin Toussaint writing for New York Metro, one branch of the New York Public Library wants to help teens look… Read more »
John Bunn was wrongly convicted of murder, now he’s building libraries in prisons
As a teenager, John Bunn was wrongly convicted of murder. After 17 years in jail, he spent the next decade on parole and fought for his exoneration. Now, after 27… Read more »
A $500,000 grant will help NYU Abu Dhabi make books in Arabic available to displaced populations all over the world
An Arabic digital library has received a $500,000 grant for its ongoing efforts to digitize Arabic texts and make their files accessible. Arabic Collections Online began as an academic undertaking at NYU… Read more »
The San Bernardino Libraries have received a $10,000 grant for bilingual books
In California, a state where half of all children have at least one immigrant parent, libraries are working to accommodate the needs of their patrons. Thanks to a grant from the… Read more »
A Forbes contributor has suggested replacing libraries with Amazon bookstores
I hate everything about this, but here we go. Panos Mourdoukoutas, chair of the economics department at LIU-Post and a writer for Forbes, has published an opinion piece suggesting that Amazon Books stores… Read more »
Books Revisited, the all-volunteer, library-sustaining bookstore of Alamogordo, New Mexico, is back in business!
Alamogordo, New Mexico has recently been graced with the reopening of Books Revisited — the town’s only general-interest book store, making a new home for itself at the local White Sands Mall. Nicole Maxwell covered… Read more »
Banksy wants to help save Bristol’s libraries
The library system in the UK has been having a rough old time of it in recent years. Since 2010, at least 478 libraries have closed according to Natasha Onwuemezi at The… Read more »
Oakland librarians have produced a guide to children’s books about the police
In Oakland, a library has put together a guide to evaluating children’s books about the police, Andrew Stelzer reports for KQED. Oakland Public Library children’s collection management librarian Amy Martin… Read more »
Arsenic and old books
I have heard it said by several insiders at several publishing houses that green books don’t sell. It’s true that you don’t see a whole lot of them, especially when compared… Read more »
Beach libraries are the new wave
It is officially beach season, which means it’s officially beach reading season. And while there are a ton of lists that will tell you which books to bring to the beach, we’re… Read more »