April 10, 2020
In these anxious times of social distancing, we find new ways to come together. The creation of the Cozy Evanston Community Cookbook is underway. Evanston Public Library wants your recipes and has plans to collect them from as many Evanston residents as possible. When complete, the cookbook will be made freely available online with a […]
March 30, 2020
There are so many resources at EPL that it can be difficult to keep track of them all. Let’s just break this down easily then. Would you like ebooks for kids that have read along components? Then check out this video on using Tumblebooks via Evanston Public Library. Do you prefer the Tumblebooks app and […]
March 17, 2020
Well folks, it happened. The library up and closed on you and here you are without anything to read. A great big library full of books, but you can’t get access to them. Does that sound fair? Not to worry. Consider this a golden opportunity. After all, it has never been a better time to […]
November 25, 2019
I don’t like to brag, but honestly if you want to find THE best recommended list of books for kids, you needn’t look any further than Evanston Public Library. Oh, Chicago has their list, and New York’s is fine, but I daresay you will never find the level of love and dedication as is evident […]
October 23, 2019
If you were to visit the city of Austin, TX sometime between the months of March and October, you would be privy to a rather remarkable sight. Every evening, roundabout twenty minutes before sundown, 1.5 MILLION bats will emerge from beneath the Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge. That’s a lot of bats. It’s also […]
October 8, 2019
In 2011 I found myself six months pregnant in Bologna, Italy. Ostensibly there to write a piece for School Library Journal I was actually there to investigate a rumor. For years I had heard that the Bologna Book Fair, held in Bologna each year, was not going to be of much interest to me, a […]
September 25, 2019
Publishing runs in cycles, and libraries consciously and unconsciously follow those cycles. Because April is considered National Poetry Month, there is a temptation to just read all the poetry you like then, and forget about it for the rest of the year. Happily, that is not how Evanston operates. But while ours is a poetry […]
September 11, 2019
Let me be clear that prior to taking my current position as the Collection Development Manager of Evanston Public Library, my primary experience was in purchasing children’s literature. Evanston has provided a learning curve these last four years, and I believe that at this point I have a pretty clear sense of what the city […]
August 28, 2019
When I lived in New York City I would, on occasion, find myself dining with folks not usually in my social circle. These people would ask what I did for a living and they could be a bit surprised when I said I was a librarian. “A librarian? Are there still libraries anymore?” they’d joke. […]
August 14, 2019
In the beginning, when libraries around the world started buying and circulating ebooks for the very first time, publishers were concerned. Very concerned. Suddenly the old lending models didn’t seem to apply anymore. Why should libraries be allowed to circulate digital titles, books that will never show wear and tear after multiple uses, without needing […]
