Quote for Today: Sherman Alexie
Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read?… …
Quote for Today: Laura Lippman
There’s a serendipity to real life that the Internet can’t duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the …
Stop Monkeying Around: Monty Python’s Gorilla Librarian Sketch
Here’s a comic sketch from Monty Python which needs no introduction. I hope you enjoy this little bit of absurdity from the kings of British surrealist humor starring the late, …
Quote for Today: Nicky Wire
There’s a tendency to resort to romantic cliche when talking about libraries; clearly in a digital age they aren’t a “sexy” alternative. Maybe I’m old-fashioned but I still believe that …
A Ghost Lives Upstairs: The Haunting of the Andrew Bayne Memorial Library, Pittsburgh
Between the book stacks, where visibility is low and silence the rule, things can get creepy. I worked in libraries for most of my college years, and I can tell …
Quote for Today: Germaine Greer
A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity. ―Germaine Greer
Changing with the Times: Philosophy and Architecture of Oxford’s Bodleian Library
Libraries do more than house books. How do they reflect the culture of those who build, maintain and enjoy them? One of the oldest libraries in Europe, the Bodleian consists …
Quote for Today: Verlyn Klinkenborg
I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves? What if Emma Woodhouse doesn’t learn from her …
Quote for Today: Ray Bradbury
Forgive, I hope you won’t be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, …
Quote for Today: Alberto Manguel
No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected, what is promised, what is allowed. One may …