Category: Libraries Round the World

Washington D.C.’s 18th National Book Festival

09/09/2018

Get an insider’s view of some of the authors and books featured in the 2018 Library of Congress’s mega-book festival. The largest library in the world, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., appropriately hosts one of largest annual book festivals open to the public and free. … More Washington D.C.’s 18th National Book Festival

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Pooh-Bear’s Old Home Across from Mother’s Museum

05/25/2018

The Museum of Modern Art in NYC is known as MOMA. But when it first opened, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller’s children called it ‘mother’s museum.’ She and two girlfriends pooled their resources and determination to open their new art museum just nine days after Wall Street crashed in 1929. What timing! Fortunately, their museum is alive … More Pooh-Bear’s Old Home Across from Mother’s Museum

Libraries Round the World: Bookmobiles Rule!

04/11/2018

Today April 11th is National Bookmobile Day. Of course, finding one, since true to their name they aren’t stationary, wasn’t easy. But success came through this afternoon! I guess this one didn’t get the message or couldn’t make it to the party since it was parked outside the Mission Branch Library in San Antonio, Texas. Lee … More Libraries Round the World: Bookmobiles Rule!