As of Wednesday, the Main Library continues to experience an Internet outage. No computers, printing, or phones. You must have your library card to check out materials. The Crown Branch is fully operational. All locations are closed on the Fourth of July.
April 13, 2010
Blue Rainbow by M.L. Wylie Blue, my love is blue Dazzled by glass Like frozen fire For blue flame burns hottest and most pure And so my love is azure Blue, my love is blue A thousand feet of sky And sunlight in my eye You lift me in the air And so my love is […]
April 12, 2010
The Different Stars by W.S. Merwin I could never have come to the present without you remember that from whatever stage we may again watch it appear with its lines clear pain having gone from there so that we may well wonder looking back on us here what tormented us what great difficulty invisible in […]
April 11, 2010
Forgetfulness by Billy Collins The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the […]
April 10, 2010
David Remnick will discuss aspects of his latest publication, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, at Chicago’s Harold Washington Public Library. Remnick is an editor at The New Yorker, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book, Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. Random House – Authors […]
April 10, 2010
One Book, One Chicago Inaugurated in the fall of 2001, the One Book, One Chicago program is launched each spring and fall to cultivate a culture of reading and discussion in Chicago by bringing our diverse city together around one great book. Reading great literature provokes us to think about ourselves, our environment and our […]
April 10, 2010
The Lama by Ogden Nash The one-L lama, He’s a priest. The two-L llama, He’s a beast. And I would bet A silk pajama There isn’t any Three-L lllama. This poem was selected by Barb L. (Reader’s Services) Poetry Copyright Notice
April 9, 2010
Brooklyn seems to be a popular choice with book clubs right now. It was a recent pick for the Irish Times book club, and Toibin answered readers’ questions about the ideas and influences behind the novel.
April 8, 2010
Bookmobiles Need to book an I-GO car today? Now you can get literal about it: Random House Audio has partnered with I-GO to convert smart drivers to even smarter audiobook listeners. Call it the latest chapter in I-GO’s epic quest to make car sharing part of our collective culture. By visiting www.randomhouseaudio.com/carshare, I-GO members can […]
April 2, 2010
Jennifer Schuessler, of Paper Cuts blogs here about the clever book jackets from Book City Jackets in Brooklyn, that allow “the less literary among us to read cheesy books with impunity.” (Susan R., Reader’s Svcs)
March 31, 2010
Author Madison Smartt Bell writes about the “huge chunks of cultural heritage” at risk of being lost in the devastation caused by the massive earthquake in Haïti. Click here for information from the IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) and the global library community.
