Tag: librarians
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Of What Value is a Book?
A few weeks after I arrived to spend a year with a German family in Berlin, I celebrated my sixteenth birthday. They gave me two books: The Diary of Anne Frank and Cry, the Beloved Country. These two books informed my life as no other books have. Until then I had no knowledge of the Holocaust, no idea that…
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In praise of librarians
Are parents who threaten librarians over particular books also carefully monitoring what their children watch on computers and television screens?
Nancy Werking Poling 