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The 2007 edition of the Yearbook of English Studies has devoted an entire volume to the subject of science fiction in literature. As guest editor David Seed says in the preface, “Over recent decades SF has moved from the margins of our culture to a position of centrality.” Part of this is because science fiction [...]
Doris Lessing is this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It’s both good news for those of us who have read her work for a long time and also a surprise, coming forty-five years after what many consider her best work, The Golden Notebook.
A question that’s been asked often in recent years, even by some librarians, is, Who needs librarians? For that matter, who needs libraries now that we have search engines like Google? I made some points in an article I wrote several years ago titled Googling Libraries, about the way that all Internet search engines are [...]
Roald Dahl was born September 13th, 1916. While he’s best known as the author of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (made into a film with Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka And The Charlie Factory, then made again by Tim Burton into a film with Johnny Depp, this time under the book’s original title) he wrote [...]
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
One of the tough questions for librarians is, how do you get kids to come in, let alone read? As the Fort Dodge(Iowa) Messenger reports, the Humboldt Public Library is luring kids in with an offer to play Guitar Hero. Once there they’ll be approached by fellow teens who are part of the library’s Teen [...]
From the department of Life Imitates Get Smart, Interface Electronics has released a new product for libraries: the Cone of Silence. Okay, so it’s not quite what Maxwell Smart had in mind when, say, he wanted to tell the Chief he had a secret dream of being a concert pianist, but it will allow you [...]
The organization First Book, a non-profit whose mission is to give low-income children a chance to read and own their first books, is asking, What Book Got You Hooked? Go to the web site and tell them your first and favorite book–the book that got you hooked on reading. Check out the testimonials from such [...]
As librarian Joan Airoldi explained in her article Case Study: A Grand Jury Subpoena in the PATRIOT Act Era: One Library’s Lesson, in the Winter 2006 issue of Library Administration & Management, the FBI came to the Deming [Washington] Library in June 2004 and asked that the library hand over the names of all persons [...]
I don’t read romance novels, but when an issue of Romance Sells, which says, “Published Quarterly for Booksellers and Librarians” on its front cover, came across my desk, I couldn’t help taking a few minutes to check it out. At a time when most other print genres seem to be either stagnating or dying, the [...] |
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