A transgender Oak Park librarian helps caregivers support their LGBTQ+ children.
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Lit this month
September brings us a bevy of book-related, word-inspired, and otherwise literary events. Here’s a few to pencil into your calendar. The Paper Machete has returned to its performance home in Uptown at the Green Mill, to the delight of fans. The organizers describe it as a “weekly live magazine,” and while comedians are regularly featured, […]
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Noname’s Book Club suggests libraries instead on National Fuck Amazon Day
Noname’s Book Club pushes library cards on National Fuck Amazon Day, Led Zeppelin 2 tour to celebrate Led Zeppelin III, and more.
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We need the Read/Write Library now more than ever
The Humboldt Park institution has taken an unconventional approach to being a “city library,” and it’s only growing more ambitious.
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This week’s Chicagoan: Jack Herman, scoutmaster
Jack Herman, scoutmaster: “That’s why you want to keep these kids in the program, because it gives them some stability.”
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Mayor Rahm’s grand experiment: Libraries without librarians
Books as a backdrop: Mayor Rahm stages a press conference in the Payton high school library that has no librarian because of his budget cuts.
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Mayor Emanuel’s crowded-classroom approach to fixing schools
A glimpse at the school overcrowding likely to result from Mayor Emanuel’s “consolidation” plan.
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Mayor Emanuel swears he’s not interested in running for president
Even as Rahm denies presidential aspirations, he feeds media interest in them.
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Ask a librarian, and then listen
A research project leads me out of the digital cocoon
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In their words: Mike Levine, acquisitions editor, Northwestern University Press
Mike Levine of Northwestern University Press on how to deliver books to readers
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The sword is mightier than the pen
Mayor Emanuel cuts library staff and drives out the system’s biggest advocate
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“Yes We Can” Win the Obama Presidential Library, Says Hawaii
Hawaii and Chicago duke it out for the Barack Obama Presidential Library and Museum.
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More function, less form
The Harold Washington Public Library isn’t an icon, and that’s good.
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A Sucker’s System
In effect, the city is proposing to divert roughly $67 million in property taxes from the chronically broke schools, parks, and county on the shoulders of an $8 million project. Only in Chicago would this kind of deal stand a chance.
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Let’s burn all the libraries
Budget cuts force the shuttering of multiple EPA libraries, and no, the contents aren’t all available online.