In observance of the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week, I am today featuring ten of my favorites from a list of the 100 most frequently challenged books in the decade 1990-2000. My selections are arbitrary and reflect only my own tastes.
Observed since 1982, this annual event serves to remind Americans [...]

Kevin Clash and Elmo

Most of the time a book’s genre dictates its format. Mysteries typically begin with murder followed by investigation and then solution. Cookbooks start with appetizers and end with dessert. And biographies usually take a birth to death (or birth to present) approach. But [...]

So there I was, shelving in the 610’s, all the wild animals of the 500’s at my back, the words of Chris Webb ringing in my ears (…we’re ALL dummies about Something….) and I turned to slide the gazzilionth book into it’s proper place and there, staring me in the face from the [...]

For me, one of the great things about working at the library is getting to enjoy children’s books in the course of the day. As a non-parent, I would never have occasion to be exposed to what we call Easy Books at the library. So today I decided [...]

With a big thanks to Nina Munteanu, whose blog post last week brought it to my attention, I want to talk about a new Blogger widget that allows visitors to your blog to purchase your entire archived posts as a bound book. Please note that for reasons I [...]