Category: Librarian

Ask the Librarian – Book Formats

This summer we are making more time to play with our books and spending less time in the editing chair. But, we didn’t want you not to have an episode… so here is a short episode on how we choose which book formats we prefer when trying to be good stewards of our resources. 

Librarian Notices: Written Treasures Library

I wasn’t always a book hoarder, but l’ve always loved to read. I was born and raised in the Philippines in a family of readers, and my siblings and I grew up reading Enid Blyton, the Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and the Hardy Boys. But we also read children’s classics — I have fond memories of my Ate (older sis) and I taking an hour-long bus ride, backpacks in tow, to this dome-shaped building dwarfed by skyscrapers, right in the very heart of the financial district. It was a church founded over a century ago for American expatriates, and inside was a little library — a regular library to everyone else, but THE Secret Garden to me. We filled our backpacks with Black Beauty and the like, and devoured them at home before our next trip to this magical place.

Elizabeth Ripley Binders

Elizabeth Ripley’s artist biographies are true living art books. The new editions reprinted by Purple House Press are simply gorgeous. We are particularly thrilled that Purple House Press chose to offer the option of adding 8 prints with the book. The prints are on high quality card stock with just the right amount of sheen.

Building on an idea from Sherry Early of Meriadoc Homeschool Library, I am keeping my books in a 3-ring binder with the prints in sheet protectors. I decided to make spine labels that would draw my patrons over to the shelf.