Growing Up Asian Winner!

The Albany Library currently has an exhibit of the winners in the Growing Up Asian in America contest sponsored by the Asian Pacific Fund for Bay Area Youth. The exhibit will be at the Library through February 19. Students in K-12 submit art and essays for cash prizes. One of the winners this year is Lingxuan [...]

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Book and Librarian Awards

 
This column appeared in the Journal on January 11, 2008. Past columns can be read at juliewinkelstein.com
“…Recipients are those individuals who are recognized by their colleagues as exceptional leaders whose dedication, commitment and vision inspire others, or whose singular contribution to the field of information science has been particularly significant.” Announcement from the Los Angeles [...]

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Recommended Reading

One of the harder questions people ask me as a reference librarian is, “What’s a book you recommend?” In library lingo, this is called a “reader’s advisory” question. I ask the patron questions in an attempt to understand what books they tend to enjoy, but this is harder than it sounds. Often we just come [...]

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Library Jargon

This column appeared in the Journal on January 4, 2008. Past columns can be read at juliewinkelstein.com

“Periodical: An item which is published on a regular basis, such as journals, magazines and newspapers.” University of Michigan, Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Library Glossary (www.lib.umich.edu)
Some of the jargon used in libraries can be difficult to understand. Even the people [...]

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TAG: You’re it!

As you’ve probably noticed, librarians love lingo. In Librarian, “TAG” means Teen Advisory Group. This is a group of teenagers who meet to tell us what they want to see at the library. The Albany Library’s TAG is getting off the ground this Saturday, January 19, at 3pm. If you’re a teen, we’d love to [...]

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Jewel Okawachi at the Albany Library

 
This column appeared in the Journal on December 28, 2007. Past columns can be read at juliewinkelstein.com
“…The exclusion and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was an injustice felt at the deepest personal level by those who experienced it, but for all Americans, it remains a betrayal of the principles upon which this [...]

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Vote!!!!

The Albany Library has information from the League of Women Voters, the State of California, and the Easy Voter Guide project (English, Spanish, Chinese and Korean)  http://www.easyvoter.org/site/evguide/ - all to help you make  informed decisions on February 5.  You have up until January 22 to register for that election, and the Library has Voter Registration forms [...]

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Julie Winkelstein on KPFA’s “Cover to Cover”

On Monday January 7, 2008, Albany Library Children’s Librarian Julie Winklestein was a guest on KPFA’s “Cover to Cover” with Denny Smithson. The archive of this show is available at http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=24178

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New Year’s Resolutions – Part 2

The Library offers many opportunities to keep those New Year’s Resolutions – especially the ones that involve doing something.

Consider joining a book group – The next book for the Albany Library Evening Book Group, meeting on January 16, is A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot. The group meets monthly, at 7 at the Library and is [...]

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Mountain Mushers

 
This column appeared in the Journal on December 21, 2007. Past columns can be read at juliewinkelstein.com
“Some days everything goes just right: deep-blue sky, no wind, and a beautiful trail stretching out in front of the dogs, happy huskies trotting along in synchrony…” From “Sled Dogs of Denali National Park” by Karen Fortier         
The Mountain Mushers [...]

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