Posts Tagged as ‘ALA’

October 8, 2008

ALA is kind of gay this week

I volunteer at the Quatrefoil Library, a GLBT community library whose mission is to “collect, maintain, document and circulate gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer materials and information in a safe and accessible space.”  The monographs, videos, audio recordings and periodicals in the collection are written by GLBT people or have GLBT characters or have GLBT actors or musicians or contain [...]

September 29, 2008

Banned Books Week Sept. 27-Oct. 4

Get out there and celebrate!
 

*image from History Survey Blog
 
Check out ALA’s website for more info.
A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.  ~Jo Godwin
 

*image from DML East Branch Flickr

June 19, 2008

Books…what are they good for…absolutely everything

Today at the suburban library near I94, there was a little bit of experimenting going on with some new software.  Marty and I were volunteers for testing some new software the library had recently acquired.  I know you are all familiar with the Read posters produced by ALA.  Well as part of the summer reading program a library [...]