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• The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

  a Novel

  Jurczyk, Eva

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  Toronto librarian and author Eva Jurczyk has gifted us with a gem of a library mystery. A stolen rare book, a scandal, and a missing librarian — just pair with a large mug of tea and your evening is set. Throw in some work place tea and the game’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Desk Set

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  A 1957 film that speaks to our current moment surprisingly perfectly. Reference librarian Bunny Watson, played by Katharine Hepburn, and her colleagues are experts at answering complex questions. Enter the Spencer Tracy character who plans to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Library at Night

  Manguel, Alberto, 1948-

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  If, as Alberto Manguel says, “every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers” then reading the book will make you look at the library you yourself frequent with fresh eyes.

• In the Stacks

  Short Stories About Libraries and Librarians

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  The library means a lot to you is our guess, and so isn’t it interesting to read stories to compare what they might mean to others? This collection holds classic LibLit by Italo Calvino, Ray Bradbury, and Jorge Luis Borges. 19 stories ranging from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Librarians

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  This Emmy Award winning documentary film is of interest to anyone who believes in the importance of intellectual freedom

• Upright Women Wanted

  Gailey, Sarah

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  Upright Women Wanted features queer librarian spies in a futuristic old west. A hopeful dystopian narrative with secret missions, lessons on roping and bookbinding, and finding community and happiness.

• The Name of the Rose

  Eco, Umberto

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  Before the Locked Library trend, there was The Name of the Rose by semiotician and scholar Umberto Eco. Forbidden knowledge, hidden rooms, secret panels, and mysterious books, not to mention the requisite dead bodies make this the ultimate locked…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Public

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  When this movie came out in 2018 starring Emilio Estevez, highlighting the lives of the houseless and the role of the public library, there was criticism. But maybe it’s time for a re-watch to see where we’ve come from that moment.

• On Book Banning

  Wells, Ira

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  An elegantly written, cogent and timely volume on why book banning should be foremost in the minds of all citizens. The symbolic act of censorship has far reaching repercussions. Book banning thrives, says Wells, when we neglect to say why reading…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Short Stay in Hell

  Peck, Steven L., 1957-

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  With a premise like this one, how can you not want to jump on the holds list? When Soren dies, he finds himself in hell which is — wait for it — a library. Speaking of escape rooms, to make it out of library hell he has to find the book that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hollywood Librarian

  a Look at Librarians Through Film

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  You think you know your local librarian, but do you? The oh-so-tired stereotype might be the shushing librarian, but this 2014 history of librarians in film and literature wonders whether it’s listening for which librarians should be more known. In…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Astral Library

  a Novel

  Quinn, Kate

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  A light and highly readable example of fantasy library fiction. The main character is a survivor of foster care who is an adept at poverty math due to the fact that her life fell apart. As always, the library holds (pun intended) her up. But guess…Read moreRead more of this annotation