I ran across a little story from Columbia on the lengths to which a dedicated teacher has gone to bring books to children. Biblioburro or, Donkey Library, is an effort by one teacher to take books to children on weekends. He started with just a handful of books and one donkey but his effort has grown to thousands of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Books’
Biblioburro
Posted in Books and reading, tagged Books, Columbia, Donkies, Mobile libraries, Reading on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tell Me a Story!
Posted in Books and reading, tagged Books, Reading, Technology on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A wonderful essay in the Telegraph (UK), Grand Theft Auto, Twitter and Beowulf all demonstrate that stories will never die reflects on the fundamental place story-telling has in our lives. The author, Sam Leith, was led to write the essay, apparently, after reading reports that we are “running out of narrative”. This fear has gone so [...]
In Praise of the Second-Hand Bookshop
Posted in Books and reading, tagged Books, Childhood memories, Used books stores on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I found a lovely essay, Of Bibliophilia and Biblioclasm, by Theodore Dalrymple (whom I always enjoy reading) in the New English Review. It is a meditation on the pleasures of used books, the joy of discovering unknown treasures in used bookshops and much more. Of one of his finds, he writes:
One of my treasured books is [...]
For Cat Lovers Only
Posted in Books and reading, Libraries, tagged Books, Cats, Dewey Readmore Books, Iowa, Library cats, Reading on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Like most, if not all, blog software, WordPress tracks what search terms have led people to this site. Today I was surprised to see that we turned up in a search for “Dewey Readmore Books”. I suppose that I have mentioned Melvil and, certainly, the word books has shown up, but Readmore?
However, I was struck, chiefly, [...]
Always a Day Late and a Penny Short
Posted in Libraries, tagged Books, Harvard, Technology on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Review of Books published a terrific article called The Library in the New Age back in June. I have only just gotten around to reading it. The author, Robert Darnton, is the director of the University Library at Harvard. He writes:
In fact, the strongest argument for the old-fashioned book is its effectiveness for [...]
The Library in the New Age
Posted in Books and reading, Libraries, tagged Books, Future of libraries, Library as place on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Review of Books has published a long essay by Robert Darnton entitled, The Library in the New Age:
“Students today still respect their libraries, but reading rooms are nearly empty on some campuses. In order to entice the students back, some librarians offer them armchairs for lounging and chatting, even drinks and snacks, [...]
Where Were the Spell-Checkers?
Posted in Books and reading, Humor and lighter fare, News, Publishing, tagged Books, Editing on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another find via Library Link of the Day; a very funny item about a book published by Princeton University Press and withdrawn because of numerous grammatical and spelling errors.
