June 2020

Flannery O’Connor Didn’t Care If You Liked Her Work

This is all to say that Flannery O’Connor did not care if you liked her work, and she certainly did not care, it would seem from her letters, if you liked her. Writing was not for her a means of making a point or gaining admiration, though, being human, it is hard to imagine that she was not pleased at times with herself and her success. Writing for her was a means of understanding herself: “I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.”

From: https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/flannery-oconnor-didnt-care-if-you-liked-her-work/#.Xvn5txvapco.hackernews Flannery O’Connor Didn’t Care If You Liked Her Work | Church Life Journal | University of Notre Dame

June 29, 2020 by Authors Books 0

Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers and Spies Banded Together in World War Two Europe 

Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers and Spies Banded Together in World War Two Europe 

In Information Hunters, Kathy Peiss describes American assumptions about German libraries as the Allies closed in on Berlin in 1945. ‘On its face, the military government’s perspective was simple: Nazi books were akin to a virus or infestation. It required quarantine and elimination.’

 

 

From: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n13/neal-ascherson/warrior-librarians Neal Ascherson · Warrior Librarians: Cultural Pillaging · LRB 2 July 2020

June 28, 2020 by Librarians Politics 0

Drone and Robot Book Delivery | | David Lee King

Getting books to customers is easy (well, easy if you don’t have global pandemic to deal with, anyway) – they visit the library or a bookmobile, and pick up their book. How about using drones or robots to deliver books?Well … both are being done right now.

 

From: https://davidleeking.com/drone-and-robot-book-delivery/ Drone and Robot Book Delivery | | David Lee King

June 25, 2020 by Technology 0

How Coronavirus Is Changing Public Libraries – Bloomberg

Coronavirus Tests the Limits of America’s Public Libraries With school closures and job loss, communities will need libraries more than ever. But constraints after Covid-19 mean they’ll have to rethink their role.

 

From: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-24/how-coronavirus-is-changing-public-libraries How Coronavirus Is Changing Public Libraries – Bloomberg

June 25, 2020 by Public Libraries 0

Overwhelmed With Orders, Some Black-Owned Bookstores Ask for Patience – The New York Times

Overwhelmed With Orders, Some Black-Owned Bookstores Ask for Patience “We are running as fast as we can,” a Boston shop told customers who are clamoring for antiracism books that are soaring in popularity but hard to keep in stock.

 

From: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/books/black-owned-bookstores-frugal.html Overwhelmed With Orders, Some Black-Owned Bookstores Ask for Patience – The New York Times

June 24, 2020 by Book Stores 0

Librarians and the Power of Social Media | Book Riot

One thing that readily comes to my mind when thinking of how libraries have used social media: to spread humor, and by extension joy. Even typos can or other misconceptions can be shaped into a something that is positively viral. An example of this is the whole snake/snack confusion that the Pflugerville Library had when advertising their Anti-Prom.

 

From: https://bookriot.com/2020/06/22/librarians-and-the-power-of-social-media/

 

Librarians and the Power of Social Media | Book Riot

June 23, 2020 by Librarians Technology 0

Calling in Librarianship: A Manifesto

I’m not here to make friends–yet I desperately want all of you to like me–but more importantly, I want to share with you some things I believe to be true, and sharing these truths is much more important to me than being liked. I feel the need to call some of ya’ll in. So–here we go. From: https://himissjulie.com/2020/06/20/calling-in-librarianship-a-manifesto/ Calling in Librarianship: A Manifesto

June 21, 2020 by Librarians 0

Stacking books to contact tracing: LA librarians embrace new role during COVID-19

“We thought we were going to get a lot of hang-ups. … We all know those telemarketers that call in the middle of the day. You don’t answer the phone.,” he says. “They [people he’s called] have been so inviting and trying to help. … Some of them are just saying, ‘I'm not doing anything, I'm home. I got all the time in the world.’” 

From:

https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/librarians-covid-19-blm-masks/lapl-coronavirus-contact-tracer

Stacking books to contact tracing: LA librarians embrace new role during COVID-19

June 21, 2020 by Uncategorized 0

Black Lives Matter: Librarians share books, films that shine light on race, injustice | UC Berkeley Library News

At UC Berkeley, members of the Library staff have shared lists of books and films to provide a deeper understanding of race and racism, and to lift and center Black voices. They’re also working to provide greater access to many of the volumes you see here — and more — in digital form, so they can be read by more people within the UC Berkeley community, from anywhere.

From:

https://news.lib.berkeley.edu/juneteenth-2020

Black Lives Matter: Librarians share books, films that shine light on race, injustice | UC Berkeley Library News

June 20, 2020 by Uncategorized 0

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