Laurabelle’s Blog

It looks like serial novels are back, only this time it's by email. I am reminded of reading Great Expectations in junior high and learning that it was initially published chapter by chapter in a newspaper. I'm not so sure how this would work with a novel that wasn't written for that purpose; however, as [...]

This article about school library books destroyed because of a fire drives home one of the topics of my Preservation and Conservation class, disaster preparedness. In this library, a small fire in a reptile cage caused the sprinklers to go off, drenching thousands of books. Unless they can dry overnight, they will have to be [...]

I almost thought that this article was real (this and the previously-posted link courtesy of Jessamyn): Bookslut - Library Rakehell - Policy Manual 2004: Make sure that patrons checking out suspicious material (this material is flagged in the database with a red check) have their address and contact information, as well as the titles in [...]

A news article in the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times entitled Columns: Free speech fractured when an easy, elegant solution is pursued makes a really powerful point about free speech. The article is about two libraries that had a policy of denying the use of their community rooms to any citizens who want them for political [...]