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 ‘Reading’
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 [...]
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, [...]
