Shadow Ticket, by Thomas Pynchon
As your friendly neighborhood librarian, I must remind you: stack your bedside books carefully. Your nightstand is essentially a tiny public library you operate in your sleep, and if you … Read More
Judit Hajnal Ward
Bookplates Preserving History
No longer in fashion, a bookplate, or Ex Libris, used to function as proof of ownership, whether private or institutional. The phrase “Ex Libris” comes from Latin, meaning “from the … Read More
Books We Write: Christmas for Everyone!
Interview with Becky Diamond, author of the The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook Becky Diamond is the Business Librarian at Rutgers University Libraries–New Brunswick, bringing valuable experience from past roles at … Read More
Disability Awareness: Cancer and the ADA
October is Disability Awareness Month, and it’s a great time to talk about something that, in our experience, many people don’t realize: cancer can be considered a disability under the … Read More
Banned Books Week with Books We Read (2020-2025)
Five years ago, in September 2020, the world was operating virtually due to Covid, but that didn’t prevent the small team of Books We Read at Chang Library from celebrating … Read More
Hungarian library celebrates Banned Books Week!
As a librarian, I personally find Banned Books Week extremely important, no matter where one lives. Since 1982, the week-long attention to challenging books for diverse reasons has been a … Read More
Books We Read celebrates diversity in reading, Part 2
Following up on our semester kickoff post, Books We Read celebrates diversity in reading, Part 1, we are delighted to share how our motive and purpose worked in the past … Read More
Books We Read celebrates diversity in reading, Part 1
Since its inception, the Books We Read blog has evolved into a community of diverse voices, perspectives, and experiences. It began as an extension of the Reading for Recovery project … Read More
The Independence Day of Ukraine
At the start of the war in Ukraine, we watched in horror the destruction (also shared widely on social media), which caught the attention of librarians concerned about disinformation and … Read More
The Disease Concept of Alcoholism by E. M. Jellinek (1890-1963)
The disease concept of alcoholism stands as “the most widely cited (and least read) literary artifact of the modern alcoholism movement,” according to alcohol historian William White. Published in 1960 … Read More