Sales of Rashford book soar following England’s Euro 2020 run
Four inches. 10.16cm. The minimum width of a standard football goalpost. In global terms: an incredibly small distance. At Wembley Stadium on Sunday night, as the Euro 2020 final between… Read more »
Aesop transforms three North American stores into Queer Libraries
Here, then, is how you do the work. Instead of blithely turning their logo rainbow-coloured and making vague noises about inclusivity, skin, hair and body care company Aesop are putting… Read more »
York school crowdfunds for ‘magical’ reading cottage
Hot on the heels of last week’s juicy book-box scandal, Yorkshire pops up on our radars again today—but this time for altogether more wholesome reasons. Carr Junior School in Acomb,… Read more »
NYPL Is re-opening incrementally, NYT reports
Ever alert for signs of an ending to our long national nightmare, we here at [virtual, still … but not for long!] John Street were pleased to see from the… Read more »
‘Pornographic’ literature left in an English village’s free book exchange causes controversy
Cornholme is a small village in West Yorkshire, England, with a population of 1,694, where generally not very much happens. But this week it has hit headlines in the UK for… Read more »
Simon Armitage begins decade-long UK library tour
Back in 2019, a hundred years ago, the UK’s Poet Laureate Simon Armitage announced he was to tour the nation’s libraries each Spring over the next decade, to “give readings… Read more »
Librarians Lobby Leaders on Infrastructure Initiative
If there is one thing we have learned over the years, it is that librarians are fierce! So it came as no surprise when the American Library Association (ALA) sent… Read more »
Millennial professionals organize mobile libraries for children in rural India
Founded a year and a half ago, Dulkal Libraries has been organizing mobile and street libraries to help get books to children in government schools and rural communities across Tamil… Read more »
The late Riley Gale, singer of Power Trip, to have Dallas library named for him
Riley Gale, the singer of Dallas, TX, thrash heroes Power Trip, died unexpectedly this August at the simply tragic age of 34. He was one of the best frontmen in the… Read more »
Ex-Librarian and bookseller sentenced in decades-long theft scheme
Librarians, they’re just like us! Well, if you are someone who would steal $8 million of rare books and artifacts from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, that is. Michael Levenson… Read more »