Libraries
November 5, 2009
- I've just uploaded some photographs taken yesterday at my talk at Lee-on-the-Solent Library in Hampshire. The small library was built in the 1930's and has been recently refurbished, though I guess it's had many refurbishments since it was opened! There was a nice sized crowd, about twenty, which for a small library was good, and one gentleman, who is one of my followers on Twitter, had ...
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October 10, 2009
- What is PAYA? In yesterdays blog, I mentioned about http://bringya2pa.blogspot.com... So what is it all about?PAYA is a coalition of Pennsylvania’s young adult authors, bloggers, librarians, readers, and other book-lovers. Our mission is two-fold: 1. To share the love we have for young adult literature with others in our state 2. To raise money to support Pennsylvania’s libraries, with a ...
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October 2, 2009
- Satirist Mark Twain. Pessimist Joan Didion, Activist Mario Savio, Conservationist John Muir. You can find their works at the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley--and I do mean YOU!The library and its services are available to everyone--on Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Yes EVERYONE--FREE---you don't have to be a Berkeley academic or a famous ...
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September 21, 2009
- I'm off to the North of England on a mini tour with speaking engagements lined up. I'm looking forward to it. I shall be at the Newcastle City Library on Tuesday 29 September at 2pm, followed by a visit to North Tyneside Central Library in the evening at 7pm. The next day it's off to North Yorkshire where I am talking at a lunch event at The Richmond Walking and Book Festival on 30 ...
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August 27, 2009
- I'm joining the entire Red Room community in writing a short blog post on this week's topic: "Bad Manners." We'll choose at least one of these blogs to be featured on Red Room's homepage next week, and we'll choose three blog writers to receive free books from Red Room Authors. Submit your blog entry by Friday at 10:30 a.m. PDT [GMT-0700] for consideration. Be sure to tag the ...
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August 12, 2009
- The results of our Newsletter Poll are in! Thanks to everyone who participated. Here's how you answered this question:"In this troubled economy, how are you saving money on your book habit?" It seems that the difficult economic climate has made librarians (some of our favorite people) more popular: about half of you said you were saving money by visiting libraries instead of ...
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August 12, 2009
- If you would like to read one of the few love letters I have ever actually mailed to the other party, check out Library Love Fest: Lizzie Skurnick Loves Libraries!,where they’ve reprinted a letter I wrote to the teen branch of the ALA, YALSA, this summer. I do love librarians — mine really was nice and let me take the same book out for weeks. (And yes, she did notice.)Dear Librarian, I can ...
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August 11, 2009
- You have to love David Souter. First he tosses the world's best tenured job out the window when jobs aren't exactly going begging, then he doesn't announce a book deal, then you start learning about his digs. The New Hampshire farmhouse, it turns out, wasn't exactly a castle: no phone, no running water, a definition of Souter-rustic. Then you learn he has quit the farmhouse in Weare for a Cape ...
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August 4, 2009
- http://www.worldcat.org/profiles/AnnetteDunleaFavorite Libraries (8) Aberystwyth Univ Information ServAberystwyth, SY233DZ United Kingdom+44 (0)1970 622399 Library InformationOnline CatalogMore about this libraryBritish Libr, Urgent Action Serv, The Boston SpaWetherby W Yorkshire, LS23 7BQ United Kingdom Library InformationOnline CatalogMore about this library Klinghoffer, D., & Brown, ...
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July 29, 2009
- Victor Volkman of Loving Healing Press published my first book, REPAIR Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest and Childhood Sexual Abuse in paperback. He has now decided he wants to release it in hardcover in September. I wish that we had done it in hardcover to begin with. Victor states that "Libraries prefer hardcovers. They last several times as long as paperback and it ...
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