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September 24, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Banned Books Week 2013: Defending Harry Potter by Geri Diorio

It’s Banned Books Week! The most magical week in a librarian’s year! Every day, librarians celebrate the free and open access to information, but during this week, we really flaunt it. “Free and open access” includes being able to read whatever you wish, and that might mean the best-selling book series in history, a series […]

August 13, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Things I’m Not Over: 3 of Christie’s Book Feels

We LOVE Popwatch blog at Entertainment Weekly, and they have a regular ongoing feature called “I’m Still Not Over” which is, quite frankly, genius.  So inspired by this feature, we have decided to share with you some of the book moments, both good and bad, that we will never get over.  By their nature, these […]

April 30, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Harry Potter + The Fault in Our Stars = A fantastic Why YA? post by Leah Miller

As part of our ongoing Why YA? series, Leah Miller, author of The Summer I Became a Nerd, shares two titles that moved her and why everyone should read them. Harry Potter is, as we all know, a beautifully written story. It will be with me for the rest of my life (not to mention […]

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