The library is a great place to get books and other materials to fulfill some of those New Year’s Resolutions. A resolution we often make is to give back more to our community. The Friends of the Albany Library need people to help year round with the sorting and pricing of books donated in preparation [...]
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This column appeared in the Journal on December 14, 2007. Past columns can be read at juliewinkelstein.com.
“That’s what a public library does, and you make the choice…We certainly want parents to make that decision for their children – not one parent making that decision for all children.” Kathee Rhode, Library Director at Lower Macungie [...]
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Posted in Libraries, Teens, The Albany Community on Thursday, December 20, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s the time of year that many of us look back over the last 12 months, take stock, and make goals for the new year. I’m happy to say that 2007 has been a very good year for me in many ways. I was hired at the Albany Library in February and am now fortunate [...]
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This column appeared in the Journal on December 7, 2007. Past columns are available at juliewinkelstein.com
“Rubik’s Cube (1980-1981): Game fad involving a cube made up of smaller cubes…The object of the game (which more than a hundred million people tried to solve) was to twist the sides of the cube until each side was a [...]
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Posted in Albany Book Reviews, Books, Library Programs, Reading, Uncategorized, tagged Alice Sebold, Almost Moon, Ian McEwan, Reading, Saturday on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 | No Comments »
“When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily.” Alice Sebold follows the success of Lovely Bones, a story told from the point of view of a girl who was murdered with Almost Moon, a story told by a woman who commits a murder.
Saturday by Ian McEwan is the next book that will be discussed by the Albany Library Evening [...]
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The Mountain Mushers made an appearance at the Albany Library on December 9, 2007. Lela and Harry Schlitz shared their love of books, Alaska and dogs with a group of all ages. The most popular part of the program was, of course, their three beautiful dogs: Su, Sorrel and Pixie. At the end of the [...]
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Posted in Teens on Saturday, December 8, 2007 | No Comments »
The first meeting of our newly forming Teen Advisory Group took place earlier today. We started a dialog about what teens would like to see at the library; what kind of programs would be popular (game design, anyone?); and what theme, interactivity, and prizes people would like to see in next year’s Teen Summer Reading program. [...]
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Posted in Books, On the Web on Thursday, December 6, 2007 | No Comments »
The active members of the Mystery Writers of America have voted on the best mystery novels of all time. Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon came in second, followed by the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time, and Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent. Agatha Christie first appears at number ten, but has three books [...]
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Every month the Albany Library hosts a special evening dedicated to listening to poetry. Held on the first Thursday, this event includes a featured poet followed by an open mic.
December’s poet is Peter Dale Scott. Former Canadian diplomat and English professor at U.C. Berkeley, where he co-founded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program, Peter [...]
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This column appeared in the Journal on November 30, 2007. Past columns can be read at juliewinkelstein.com
“Politically manipulating a library’s collection development policy to alienate any portion of a community served is a marginalizing act, rendering the community’s library as no longer ‘public’.” From Todd Douglas Quesada’s “Spanish Spoken Here,” in “American Libraries” (November 2007) [...]
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