Director’s Corner
Racists
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Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote, “The only good Indian is a dead Indian” and other unpalatably racist comments. For this, the American Library Association dropped her name from their children’s award, which was begun in 1954.
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The Fallout
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Despite Mr. Trump’s recent meeting with Kim Jong-un, the threat of nuclear war lingers in our minds, as it did during the Cold War.
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Walking the Streets of Dublin
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Recently, I was in Dublin, Ireland with my husband. We walked the same streets that Maeve Binchy, Roddy Doyle and James Joyce walked.
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The Short on Short Stories
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Traditional modern short stories were published in the early 1800s in the United States. Shortly afterward, in 1821, The Saturday Evening Post appeared, one of the most widely circulated magazines.
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The Times, They are A-Changing
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Dutch sailors ate so many dodos that the dodos became extinct. Will librarians also become extinct?
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Bumps on the Road to a Dream Library
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The glittering library which resides at 50 North Main Street could easily have been written up in Alistair Black’s book, “Libraries of Light.”
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Dear Jane
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Jane Austen is wildly popular. Her six novels are rarely out of print.
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Conversations
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For some, 2017 has been a tough year, a polarizing year, when conversations were difficult among neighbors, strangers and families.
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Who Hacked the New York Times Bestseller List?
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In 1931, The New York Times began a list of bestselling books sold only in New York City. Soon the list tracked book sales in 8 cities, then 14, and in the 1940’s, it leapt to 22, the same number as today.
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Silence in the Library
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Sometimes, I wear a shirt with “Sh-h-h-h” written on it. It gets a smirk or two when people realize I am a librarian.