November 29, 2010
This beautiful accordian book packaged in a box is esteemed poet Anne Carson’s eulogy for her estranged brother. Haunting and mysterious, snippets of his life and death are revealed through photographs, excerpts of correspondence, and the author’s own thoughts and memories.
November 26, 2010
We are thrilled to announce that local painter and business owner Zuleyka Benitez will be the next artist in our ongoing exhibition series Local Art @ EPL. Beginning December 1st and extending through the month, her finely-detailed exhibit Narrative Interiors will be on display on the 2nd floor of EPL’s Main Branch. For Narrative Interiors, Ms. Benitez combined images from existing art works, […]
November 26, 2010
Perhaps some of you have seen this, but I like the range of 85 silly to serious reasons to appreciate those of us who work in libraries. OK, so we’re not worried much about good costumes (number 7), however, there are several thought-provoking points scattered through this list. Shira S.
November 24, 2010
In 1895, 115 years ago this Thanksgiving Day, America’s first automobile race was held. The approximately 54 mile course ran from Jackson Park (now the Museum of Science and Industry) in Chicago to Evanston and back. The procession entered Evanston on Sheridan and proceeded north on Sheridan to Main, west on Main to Forest, north […]
November 24, 2010
Ladies and Gentlemen! Please allow us to introduce our newest Off the Shelf feature… the Book Trailer of the Week. We kick things off with this short video for Scott Spencer’s Man in the Woods, a provocative psychological thriller just named one of the ten best books of 2010 by Publisher’s Weekly. So, check out the clip, check out the novel, and […]
November 24, 2010
The NY Times announced that early next year it will start publishing best-seller lists for both fiction and nonfiction e-books. Amazon Kindle VP Steve Kessel claims that customers are purchasing e-books at more than twice the rate of print books. Shira S.
November 23, 2010
Educator, artist and poet Margaret Burroughs died Sunday. Read about her amazing life and contributions in yesterday’s Sun-Times obituary. Laura (Reader’s Services)
November 20, 2010
In what is becoming more and more the norm, US News & World Report has become the latest magazine to abandon the print landscape to focus solely on digital media. Although it will continue to print a limited number of copies to be available at newsstands, the publisher is going to stop sending its print […]
November 18, 2010
At the eBook Boot Camp seminar I attended today at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library, there was some buzz about a new free app for iPod and iPad owners who wish to download free ebooks from their public libraries. It’s called Bluefire, and was just released this last week. There a lot of chit chat […]
November 18, 2010
Stacy Schiff has written a book delving into the life of Cleopatra in a way that hasn’t been done for a while. Schiff focuses more on the ruler’s character and political skill than the Hollywood version many of us are familiar with. (This view corresponds to a National Geographic article I read recently on Cleopatra […]
