All locations are closed on the Fourth of July. The Main Library now has Internet access and is fully operational.
May 11, 2011
The Gary, IN, library board has taken the drastic, but necessary step of shutting the main branch library. There are 4 other neighborhood locations. The decision was made because the city population has dwindled and much less tax income is expected this year. Detroit is facing a similar situation. As heard on Changing Gears this […]
May 9, 2011
Experts are predicting different outcomes for the new e-reader expected to appear May 24 of this year. One source I found thinks the device will look more like the original Nook. Barnes and Noble did not make an official announcement- the info was gleaned from a business filing. Shira S.
May 6, 2011
Technology is permitting something that could not be done only a few years ago- a book is being released only several days after the subject’s demise. Random House‘s editor Jon Meacham is collecting essays which should be available this coming Monday in e-book format. Watch for more to follow on related topics. Shira S.
May 5, 2011
LA Noire is a new video game coming out soon, however, some prominent authors are writing stories based on the plot of the game. “LA Noire: the Collected Stories” will be marketed in the near future as an e-book. (I find this puzzling- anyone understand why Joyce Carol Oates is connected to this project?) The […]
May 5, 2011
Geraldine Brooks’ new novel is out and it sounds, like her other works, different and highly original. Caleb’s Crossing centers around the first American Indian to attend Harvard. The Pulitzer winner set this book in Martha’s Vineyard during the 17th century. (EPL has ordered it.) Shira S.
May 5, 2011
Have you noticed more and more of these little square symbols appearing in print media, storefront displays, and advertising signs? No, it’s not a bathroom tile nor a new-fangled crossword puzzle grid. QR (quick response) symbols are similar to barcodes but do more. They are scannable devices that allow readers, shoppers, pedestrians, restaurant and club […]
May 2, 2011
If you have a spare $2,500,000 lying around, you can buy Norman Mailer’s distinctive home in Brooklyn Heights. The home is furnished with Mailer’s belongings, which are also available for the right price. Take a look at photos of the home and its fabulous views at Corcoran Group Real Estate and the New York Times.
May 1, 2011
Kenneth Green rose from Chicago’s tough Humboldt Park neighborhood to find success as an L.A. lawyer and UCLA paralegal instructor. In his memoir I’m From Division Street, Green looks back at his turbulent boyhood in search of how his Humboldt Park community gave him the “grit and motivation to succeed in life” just as it […]
April 30, 2011
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms […]
April 29, 2011
why some people be mad at me sometimes by Lucille Clifton they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep on remembering mine. This poem selected by Olivia M. (Reader’s Services) Poetry Copyright Notice
