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Banned Books Day 4: Call of the Wild
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Bizarro, May 5, 2011 Frank and Ernest, October 9, 2010 Rhymes with Orange, January 7, 2010
Banned Books Day 3: 50 Shades of Grey
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Frank and Ernest, July 21, 2013 Bizarro, February 27, 2013 Mother Goose and Grimm, November 3, 2012 Rhymes with Orange, June 20, 2013
Banned Books Day 2: Gone With the Wind
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Rhymes with Orange, March 7, 2014 The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee, March 30, 2013 Frank and Ernest, February 11, 2012
Banned Books Day 1: To Kill a Mockingbird
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Opus May 8, 2005 Rhymes With Orange, April 5, 2011 Frank and Ernest, August 26, 2012
Banned Books Week 2014
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When I was in high school, one of my English teachers taught one day about Lady Chatterly’s Lover. We didn’t read it in class, and not because of any curricular intent to avoid it (at least, I assume), but we learned…
Notable DC figures: Patricia Roberts Harris
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Patricia Roberts Harris is known to (relative) newcomers to DC because a school building is named for her. P.R. Harris Education Center is currently used as a location for the University of the District of Columbia Community College but previously was…
Musings on life, librarianship, and LIS education
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The semester starts Monday. It’s been eight months–almost nine–since I was last in class and I’m starting to feel the HOLY FISH HOW AM I GOING TO HAVE TIME TO DO EVERYTHING anxiety that I haven’t felt since right before…
It runs in the family
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Almost everyone in my family is an academic. Grandpa Blau taught at Columbia. Grandma and Grandpa Katz were both medical doctors but also did some university teaching. Aunt Rachel retired from Temple; Uncle Bob from Swarthmore. Aunt Jan is a…
Notable DC figures
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District law requires that full names be used when naming a public space after a person. And we like to name public space after people. So if one pays attention, there is an opportunity to learn about the historical figures…