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When A Plan Comes Together: CLP, The Next Five Years, and You
Just so you know, library workers think about you a lot. Not in a creepy-stalker way, of course. It’s just that we take the “public” part of “public service” pretty seriously. Libraries are built to serve communities, and communities are … Continue reading
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Batting 1000!
Today’s Eleventh Stack post is our 1,000th published essay. That’s 1,000 days of book, music and film recommendations, fun facts about library programs and services, and interesting intellectual detours. To celebrate, we’ve put together a short booklist of library items … Continue reading
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All Day, And All of the Night: Read to the People
What do Urban Mommies, a famous Froggy, and a local mystery maven have in common? They’ll all be making an appearance at Read to the People, the 24-hour read-a-thon that begins today at noon. That’s right: 144 volunteer readers, including … Continue reading
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Be exquisitely literate.
Be exquisitely literate with Radio CLP, the brand new official podcast of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. You probably already love the popular podcast versions of radio shows like This American Life, The Moth and Radiolab. Maybe you also listen to … Continue reading
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30 Days, 30 Ways To Use Your Library Card
September rolls around again, with a flurry of storms and a welcome temperature drop. Any day now the leaves will start changing; I peek at the trees each time I walk across the front lawn, waiting and hoping for glimmers of … Continue reading
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Trivia night at the library!
Do you love trivia? My guess is yes! Do you love the library? Of course you do! Well, you are all ready then, to come down to Oakland for Trivia Night at the Main Library. This Thursday, May 26th, from … Continue reading
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Congratulations Green Bay
I learned my work ethic in a family-owned sweater factory; tolerable in the winter, miserable in the summer. All 5 of us kids worked there at some stage in our lives. The mantra imparted to us was: “Do your job, and … Continue reading
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Wordless Wednesday
Many blogs observe “Wordless Wednesday,” weekly posts of silent, colorful musings with or without themes. Today’s Wordless Wednesday theme is Round Things. All photographs are from public archives on The Commons. You don’t have to be an institution to contribute … Continue reading
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Resolute
The promise of a brand-new year never fails to fill me with joy and hope. No matter what I have or have not accomplished in the previous twelve months, when I look at all those blank boxes on the coming … Continue reading
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We Interrupt This Regularly Scheduled Blog Post…
…for a word about library advocacy and planning for the future. I’m sure many of you will remember the events of last fall. If not, let me remind you. Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh was facing severe budget cuts and issues … Continue reading
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