Welcome to photo Friday! Click on image to enlarge. View or download the entire collection here. Welcome Guest Artists I’d love to broaden the gallery with more photos and other image types that exude a love of libraries and help reinforce the brand. Are you a visual person? Please consider becoming a guest artist.
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Best wishes Tulare County Library
Next Tuesday, Tulare County Library’s Visalia branch will host its first Socrates Café to explore the question “What is Friendship”. This enduring question has taken on new relevance in light of our increased mobility, Facebook, FWB and other societal, technological and cultural changes over the past 20 years. The philosophy and structure of these discussions
Libraries as hubs of civic discourse
Oleg Kagan’s comments to my July 7 post and another librarian’s comment on the Lead Pipe blog suggest the idea of public libraries becoming hubs of civic discourse is worth exploring. Do citizens really want it? Oleg described an unsuccessful civic program at the Will & Arial Durant Branch library in Los Angeles: “we invited
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Welcome to photo Friday! Click on image to enlarge. View or download the entire collection here. Welcome Guest Artists I’d love to broaden the gallery with more photos and other image types that exude a love of libraries and help reinforce the brand. Are you a visual person? Please consider becoming a guest artist.
How public libraries give a damn
As part of my research and advocacy, I reach out to people across the country to talk about libraries. This past Friday, I spoke with the director of an urban northeast library whose work I’d seen and admired. This was our first conversation and to break the ice (pun intended) I asked if he was
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Welcome to photo Friday! Click on image to enlarge. View or download the entire collection here. Welcome Guest Artists I’d love to broaden the gallery with more photos and other image types that exude a love of libraries and help reinforce the brand. Are you a visual person? Please consider becoming a guest artist.
Why I give a damn about public libraries
In my formative years, our government waged an unjust war and we compelled our politicians to end it. Black Americans were denied voting rights and equal access to public institutions, and enough people stood up and got legislation passed to ensure basic civil rights for all Americans. We faced up to the inequities of employer-based
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Welcome to photo Friday! Click on image to enlarge. View or download the entire collection here. Welcome Guest Artists I’d love to broaden the gallery with more photos and other image types that exude a love of libraries and help reinforce the brand. Are you a visual person? Please consider becoming a guest artist.
It’s not the lie, but the myth
As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on from the reassuring repetition of stale phrases to a new, difficult, but essential confrontation with reality. For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie–deliberate, contrived and
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Welcome to photo Friday! Click on image to enlarge. View the entire collection here. Thanks to Rebecca Miller of Library Journal who snapped the clock photo at the East Atlanta Branch of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System. Welcome Guest Artists I’d love to broaden the gallery with more photos and other image types that exude
