May 2012
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“Despite my above comments, I’m not trying to judge anyone who reads this Fifty...”
– Susan Shultz » Fifty Shades of No Way, or Henry Miller to the rescue We forgive you Susan! And we agree wholeheartedly that any book that acts as a gateway to new books is a book we can get behind.
May 31st
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A Conversation with Maggie Shipstead, author of...
“…and when I started drafting Seating Arrangements, I decided early on to include an exploding whale. I didn’t have the plot mapped out at all, but I was strangely confident there would be an opportunity somewhere to work in the whale.” This exceptional debut author will be here July 16. The full interview is under the cut. [[MORE]] Q: SEATING ARRANGEMENTS is set on a...
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“Maggie Shipstead is an outrageously gifted writer, and her assured first novel,...”
– Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo’s blurb for Maggie Shipstead’s Seating Arrangements. She’ll be here July 16.
May 30th
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May 29th
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Libraries Grapple With The Downside Of E-Books →
Fewer shelves could open valuable space for other library programs, like computer centers, teen tutoring, and adult education classes. For customers, downloading e-books is just convenient. Gussie Young has been checking out books at the Queens Library since moving to New York in 1963. Now with e-readers, she doesn’t have to come here to check out books. Nice rundown for people who are...
May 29th
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James Gleick visited the Library Wednesday, May 23. Here’s my favorite quote from his talk (skip to 30:31): We’re dealing with the tension between individual knowledge and collective knowledge. Between creativity and groupthink. Wikipedia is collective, crowdsourced knowledge at its absolute worst and also at its absolute best. Everyone here knows two things about Wikipedia: that it...
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13 Gifts for Graduates from Preschool to PhD
randomhouse: “You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!” ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!      Oh, The Places You’ll Go, by Dr. Seuss  The Best Advice I Ever Got, by Katie Couric What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012, by Richard N. Bolles Serve Yourself, by Joe Yonan 1Q84 Boxed Set, by Haruki Murakami Against Wind and Tide, by Anne...
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But the arm began to move across the bed very, very, very slowly and reached up to her mother’s arm and then moved with great poise to her mother’s hand and then clutched and shook her mother’s hand. And she knew absolutely what her mother was feeling and going through. I knew she knew. She had to know. I mean children simply have to know what’s happening in order to...
May 21st
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Last night I ran into a patron who I had not seen in a long time. She was with her daughter. When she recognized me she was suddenly all, “I haven’t seen you in so long! I got a job!” So I told her it has been worth it not to see her then if it means she found employment. Then her daughter said our tech classes instilled confidence in her mom! Also, I’m apparently known as...
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“I’m not buying this. I think it’s sentimentalism, and even fetishization. It’s...”
– Books and Other Fetish Objects - NYTimes.com I love print books but I also love technology and the convenience of ebooks. Print is not dead! It’s just going to coexist comfortably with digital objects that allow greater access.
May 17th
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A Fantastic List of Free Continuing Education... →
Plan Your Free Online Education at Lifehacker U: Summer Semester 2012 Your education doesn’t have to stop once you get out of school—being free of the classroom just means you have more control over what you learn and when you learn it. We’ve put together a curriculum of some of the best free online classes available on the web this summer for our second term of Lifehacker U, our...
May 17th
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“Dear Charles, I am on my way West. I hope to meet you. I feel madly...”
– Anne Lindbergh, writing to her husband Charles Lindbergh. Letter dated July 2, 1944. (via yesigrok)
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“Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.”
–  James Gleick (The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood) I love this quote from James Gleick, who will be visiting us Wednesday, May 23 at 7 p.m. I originally picked up The Information because it was featured on the cover of the NY Times Book review. It starts with African tribes...
May 16th
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