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Showing posts with label public libraries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public libraries. Show all posts
Wednesday, 14 May 2025

Sir Henry Rider Haggard died on May 14th 1925

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T he death of Sir Henry Rider Haggard occurred on May 14th 1925, one hundred years ago today.  H is books have been mentioned in articles ab...
Tuesday, 20 August 2024

A further scene of interest from a Dion Fortune occult novel

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A key scene in Dion Fortune's occult novel Moon Magic inspired an article about communicating via metaphysical means .  I n this scen...
Tuesday, 30 April 2024

The Library of Things!

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T he article about the future of public libraries  was intended to be the final one in the series, but I have recently learned of an interes...
Friday, 7 July 2023

Conan Doyle's Magic Door and the 'eat or buy books' dilemma

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I find much of the material in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's little book of essays  Through the Magic Door  either very interesting or rather...
Tuesday, 15 March 2022

The future of public libraries

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T his is the final article in the series that was originally inspired by a comment made by Terry Pratchett  and contains some recycled and e...
Saturday, 1 January 2022

Isaac Asimov, public libraries, and National Science Fiction Day

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T his article for January 2nd is the last in a string of lighter posts for the holiday season. It will soon be time to get back to the depre...
Wednesday, 15 December 2021

Something about the Open Library

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W hen I wrote about public libraries and the lockdowns  around a year ago, I said that eBooks and other online material can help to compensa...
Wednesday, 14 July 2021

Louisa M. Alcott, Jane Eyre and the public library

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T hese words about Jean Rhys and L. M. Montgomery  also apply to Louisa M. Alcott: “... great readers and had access to a public library whe...
Tuesday, 1 June 2021

Jean Rhys, L. M. Montgomery, Jane Eyre and public libraries

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T erry Pratchett  has said that he owes a great debt to the public libraries that he used as a boy. J ean Rhys and L. M. Montgomery are two ...
Monday, 1 February 2021

Protesting against local library closures in 2016

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T he previously-mentioned thread on a now closed forum about the value or otherwise of public libraries was created in 2016 by someone who h...
Monday, 28 December 2020

Public libraries and the lockdowns

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M y local public library was closed for several months earlier this year because of the coronavirus restrictions.  The online reservation se...
Wednesday, 18 November 2020

Some amusing criticisms of public libraries

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T his is the sixth article in the series about public libraries, with more still to come. A s previously mentioned, the value or otherwise o...
Monday, 27 January 2020

Public libraries present

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F or much of my life, I took the existence of public libraries for granted: they were just there. I can now look at them more objectively an...
Monday, 13 January 2020

Stella Gibbons and some libraries

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T erry Pratchett is not the only writer of interest who both feasted on library books and created books for other library users to read. ...
Sunday, 29 December 2019

Public libraries past

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T his is the time of year when people take stock and look both backwards and forwards. This makes it an appropriate occasion to publish arti...
Thursday, 5 December 2019

In praise of public libraries

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T he previous article mentions the great debt owed by writers such as Terry Pratchett to the public libraries that they used as children.  ...
Wednesday, 27 November 2019

The great and positive influence of public libraries

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T his post was inspired by a quotation from Terry Pratchett that I found recently. He said this in his introduction to Dragons at Crumbling ...
Friday, 5 April 2019

Something about Project Gutenberg

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M any articles on here say that a particular book is available on Project Gutenberg. This post contains some basic information that someone ...