March 30, 2015

Urban Librarians Unite, an association of urban librarian professionals and advocates, held their third annual conference last Friday at the Brooklyn Public Library. Featured speakers included Lancelot Chase, a gaming… Read more »

Libraries & librarians

University of Iowa president makes badly-timed joke, librarian calls him out — Chad Felix
Tolstoy’s great-great-granddaughter organizes four-day marathon reading of War and Peace — Ena Brdjanovic
French Booksellers Association releases reading list meant to shed light on Paris attacks — Kait Howard
Uproar over publication of Haruki Murakami's high school library records — Liam O'Brien

This week in college textbook sales fraud, at home and abroad

Liam O'Brien

Bookstores, like all businesses, are susceptible to fraud. However, all committed perpetrators of fraud know that targets like bookstores, which aren’t wildly profitable, tend to be a bit of a… Read more »

Nobel Prize-winning poet Tomas Tranströmer dies at 83

Taylor Sperry

Swedish Nobel Prize-winning poet Tomas Tranströmer died last week at the age of eighty-three. His work was distinguished by “shrewd metaphors couched in deceptively spare language, crystalline descriptions of natural… Read more »

Shuttered Milwaukee publisher donates its books to children

Nick Davies

Milwaukee-based children’s book publisher Little Bahalia Publishing has been struggling for financial viability, and made the difficult decision to close down on February 28. They have, however, managed to find… Read more »

Melville House Books

Urban Librarians Unite holds third annual conference at the Brooklyn Public Library

Claire Kelley