These seemingly unrelated books have something in common: To Kill a Mockingbird, Beloved, 1984, and Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl. They’re all on the list of most banned and challenged books.
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WOW! What a year we’ve had! Ideas without action are just words on paper. Thanks to you, 2023-2024 has been a year of activity.
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Start your genealogy search on Genealogy Day – the second Saturday in March! Here’s how to begin.
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Splish Splash. It’s National Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friends Day on January 11. Read how one Friend associated this day of recognition with her childhood adventures in the library.
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Chicago Public Library Commissioner Chris Brown sent an email to the Friends’ groups throughout Chicago for National Friends of the Library Week.
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I tell people that I literally grew up in my hometown library in central Nebraska. That makes sense because my mother was a librarian. She instilled in me my love of reading across authors and genres, and I grew to love talking with others about what they were reading.
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Looking back over the past year, I decided that in many ways it was a great example of “everything old is new again.”
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"The Canterville Ghost" was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in two parts on February 23 and March 2, 1887.
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Friends of the Libraries groups have their own national week of celebration to highlight the work they do in support of their local libraries.
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This year, the Chicago Public Library’s theme is “City of Stories,” which celebrates stories that explore people, community and culture, and the common themes that connect us.
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My 12-year-old daughter is a budding artist, so we decided to go down to the newly reopened Art Institute to catch the new exhibit, Monet and Chicago.
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To my nine-year-old self, she was everything that I considered smart, tough, and brave.
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Each year National Library Week (April 19-25, 2020) is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries and library workers and to promote library use and support.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
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It wasn’t swordplay or rivalry – but wordplay and revelry -- as two sisters engaged the audience and advanced the art of poetry performance …
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We all know that Florence Nightingale is the person who gave us our modern day nursing profession but yet if asked what else we know about her, most of us would be hard pressed to offer thoughts about how she came to be this heroine of nurses.
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Leadership from Friends of the Edgewater Library and the Edgewater Branch Library shared the stage on Saturday, April 13 at an open house to celebrate National Library Week and its theme of “Libraries =Strong Communities.”
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If you’ve ever wondered how Chicago got to be called “the Second City” or want to know who influenced this or that about the city then Chicago By The Book: 101 Stories That Shaped The CIty is for you.
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Will Hansen, curator of the "Melville: Finding America at Sea." exhibition at the Newberry Library, discussed why Melville's writings remain fascinating and important for 21st-century readers.
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