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Everything everywhere all the time: electronic services
Welcome to the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge! This month my theme is Library Love, focusing on my love of libraries generally, as well as for the Sacramento Public Library (my local library) more specifically. I hope you find these posts informative as well as fun, and that they encourage you to visit your local library to see what’s new. As mentioned in my B post about all of the things that libraries house besides books, today let’s take a closer look at some of the Electronic items libraries loan. Ebooks and E-audiobooks are growing in popularity at most libraries around the world, and I’m happy to report…
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Defeating Dewey and his dated Decimal System
Welcome to the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge! This month my theme is Library Love, focusing on my love of libraries generally, as well as for the Sacramento Public Library (my local library) more specifically. I hope you find these posts informative as well as fun, and that they encourage you to visit your local library to see what’s new. First things first: I know I said that I’m here to share my LOVE of libraries, and that that implies positivity and rainbows in my posts. But. BUT! You can’t get to the rainbow without going through a storm, right? So there are going to be some mentions…
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Catching up with Congress (Library of)
Welcome to the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge! This month my theme is Library Love, focusing on my love of libraries generally, as well as for the Sacramento Public Library (my local library) more specifically. I hope you find these posts informative as well as fun, and that they encourage you to visit your local library to see what’s new. The Library of Congress: what is it, what does it do, and why does Congress need its own library, anyway? To quickly summarize: founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is both the de facto national library of the United States and our nation’s oldest federal cultural institution.…
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Beautiful, bountiful books (& more!)
Welcome to the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge! This month my theme is Library Love, focusing on my love of libraries generally, as well as for the Sacramento Public Library (my local library) more specifically. I hope you find these posts informative as well as fun, and that they encourage you to visit your local library to see what’s new. Today’s topic is obvious: If you love libraries, you’ve likely been drawn in by all the free BOOKS. Library detractors (i.e. the kinds of folks who haven’t set foot in a library since they were kids and complain about our tax dollars funding them) grumble: “Why do they…
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We’re going down to Alphabet City
Hello again, friends! It’s been a minute, hasn’t it? Maybe two? But it’s April 1st, the rain has finally cleared so we can see the sun, and it’s time for another April Blogging from A to Z Challenge. I’m in need of a good writing challenge this year. In case you have been wondering what I’ve been up to, I basically changed careers during the pandemic and began working at the library. I started part-time in 2021, got promoted to full-time in 2022, and have been immersing myself as much as possible in this new world. So, in honor of this new path, I thought I’d express my gratitude and…
