Fussy’s favorites: Week of January 12, 2020

Posted on 01/18/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It’s easy to miss the occasional post or two online, so we’ve rounded up some of the highlights from our...

Categories: Favorites

Tagged As: Awards, Book lists, Children's literature, Horror, Libraries, Obituary, Scandal

Missouri bill would punish libraries and librarians for lending certain books to minors

Posted on 01/16/2020 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A Missouri state lawmaker has proposed a bill that would strip funding from libraries that allow young readers to access...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Libraries, Politics, The Guardian

Why "Goodnight Moon" wasn't in the New York Public Library until 1972

Posted on 01/14/2020 at 03:49 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The hot bookish news story of the past day or so has been the New York Public Library’s most-checked-out list...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Children's literature, Libraries

The most frequently checked out books at the New York Public Library

Posted on 01/14/2020 at 07:08 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

View post titled The most frequently checked out books at the New York Public Library

The New York Public Library is celebrating its upcoming 125th birthday by calculating which books it has lent out the...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Book lists, Libraries

Maryland prisons to share $100,000 book-buying grant

Posted on 01/13/2020 at 01:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Maryland State Library has given a grant of $100,000 for book purchases to the state’s twelve major prisons and...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Libraries

Excerpt: "Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe"

Posted on 01/11/2020 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We all know nowadays that if you want the answer to something, ask a librarian. But a select group of...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Excerpt, History, Libraries

Business updates: Amazon ads, print price woes, and OverDrive's sale

Posted on 12/27/2019 at 10:30 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The holiday week has been full of minor and major business moves, so we’re rounding them all up in one...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Amazon, E-reader, Libraries, Licenses, copyrights, and other legalese, The Digital Reader

You tell us: Have you gotten in trouble at the library?

Posted on 12/21/2019 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

View post titled You tell us: Have you gotten in trouble at the library?

A while back, we shared the story of a professor in Florida whose excessive checkouts incurred the wrath of librarians....

Tagged As: Just for fun, Libraries, Reader stories

Professor pushes back against library's 350-book checkout limit

Posted on 12/11/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

View post titled Professor pushes back against library's 350-book checkout limit

What could be controversial about an English professor checking out books from his university’s library? Well … the fact that...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Just for fun, Libraries

Why some libraries are happily ditching overdue fines

Posted on 12/04/2019 at 07:57 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

View post titled Why some libraries are happily ditching overdue fines

You may have missed it, but at the beginning of the year, the American Library Association passed a resolution urging...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Libraries, NPR, Reading