- Follow Reading Freely on WordPress.com
Reading Now
-
Recent Posts
Categories
Blogroll
- Seeking a Little Truth
- The Social Porcupine
- Inspire Virtue
- Classics Considered
- With Freedom, Books, Flowers, and the Moon
- The Inquisitive Biologist
- Relevant Obscurity
- Trek Lit Reviews
- Stoic Meditations
- A Pilgrim in Narnia
- Gently Mad
- The Frugal Chariot
- Classical Carousel
- Lydia Schoch
- The Classics Club
- Fanda Classiclit
- Reading In Between the Life
- The Bilbiphibian
Archives
Meta
Tag Archives: bookshops and libraries
Reckoning with the Public Library
Recently an article at The Free Press which attributed the decline of the public library to the fact that they’ve become homeless shelters has been causing some chatter in some online librarian communities. While looking into it, this book was … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged bookshops and libraries, crime, memoir, mental health-illness
2 Comments
The changing look of “reference”.
Today while looking through library photos in hopes of finding shots that would make it possible for me to find where we buried a time capsule in 1995, I saw one that begged for a “Then and Now” type framing. … Continue reading
Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore
Clay is the newest hire at Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, occupying the clerk’s desk through the midnight hours and trying not to go out of his mind with boredom. He is there not because he has a passion for books, … Continue reading
The Bookshop of Yesterdays
Miranda grew up in sunny California, but her interest in teaching history took her across the country. Now a phone call summons her back: her uncle Billy, who she’s not seen for sixteen years, has died. Returning home to see … Continue reading
How Librarians Will Save us All
As promised, I read This Book is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Will Save us All, by Marilyn Johnson. Before getting into it, though, I found a very quick work on KU that amused me, so I’m sharing it here … Continue reading
Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade
France, 1918: the Great War is almost over, but it doesn’t feel like it for civilians close to the lines, where the threat of a German resurgence hangs as close to the battered ground as the dust from the constant … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction, Reviews
Tagged 1910s, bookshops and libraries, France, historical fiction, The Great War, women
1 Comment
How has technology changed your job?
Oh, good lord. Where to begin? As some of you may know, I’m a librarian — not an official Librarian because I’m still working on MLS, but I’ve worked for a library for twelve years as a local historian, IT … Continue reading
A Right to Read: Segregation and Civil Rights
Alabama public libraries were early stages for Civil Rights projects, given their high public profile and higher deals: libraries were created for the common good, for the benefit of society, meant to serve everyone. How could they bar someone from … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged 1950s, 1960s, Alabama, American South, bookshops and libraries, Civil Rights, history
Leave a comment
Reading Freely 