Library Alive

28/08/2014

The evolving role of libraries in the digital age - The Guardian http://buff.ly/XUukj7

Letters: There would have been a time when one in three children without a book in the house would have demanded an enquiry into deprivation

28/08/2014

The Cill Dara Historical Society, Kildare Town's Local History Group in association with Kildare Town Community Library, presents an Exhibition of Photographs by Martin P. Fleming entitled "Kildare Town .......People and Places".
The exhibition can be viewed at Kildare Town Library until Saturday 30th August. Come in, we would love to see you!

26/08/2014

7 Things Librarians Are Tired of Hearing http://buff.ly/1stPYUd

We've all heard them. Probably more than once or twice. These are the reactions and responses librarians receive when they introduce themselves to those wh

06/08/2014

05/08/2014

29/07/2014

Three early works – The Young Folks, Go See Eddie and Once a Week Won't Kill You – brought out after indie imprint finds rights still available

09/07/2014

“Days in prison have a sameness to them, and my most meaningful and frequent conversations were with authors.”

09/07/2014

‘Little Free Libraries’ legal in Leawood thanks to 9-year-old Spencer Collins http://buff.ly/1oAdVat

“Nine-year-old Spencer Collins will be able put his “Little Free Library” back in his front yard first thing in the morning. The Leawood City Council unanimously approved a temporary moratorium...

09/07/2014

Harry Potter makes first appearance for seven years as he turns 34 http://buff.ly/1zourBI

JK Rowling, writing as gossip columnist 'Rita Skeeter' for the Pottermore site, exposes his first grey hairs and Ron Weasley's now-thinning thatch

09/07/2014

Are you a “Library Lover”? An “Information Omnivore”? Or are you totally “Off the Grid”? Take our library engagement quiz to learn how your library...

07/07/2014

Hear great poets of the past via the Poetry Archive http://buff.ly/1slm2Ku

Thanks to the recently relaunched Poetry Archive, you can listen to the likes of Tennyson and Sylvia Plath reading their own verse, writes Anna Baddeley

05/07/2014

Books of The Times: ‘Echo’s Bones,’ a Beckett Short Story Rediscovered http://buff.ly/1j26XNE

Samuel Beckett’s “Echo’s Bones,” a short story, is being published eight decades after his editor rejected it.