Hollywood Librarian, Los Angeles, Ca

I had the fortunate opportunity to attend a screening of Ann Seidel’s “The Hollywood Librarian” for the second time. I attended the film’s premiere at last summer’s national American Library Association conference held in Washington D.C. Before writing my impressions of the film following the second screening, I thought it would be interesting to review [...]

Book Challenge

Several weeks back, I read a post on the YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association www..ala.org/yalsa) electronic list regarding the recent book challenge to Brent Runyon’s, “The Burn Journals.” One school library had received complaints from parents (of 14-year old students) regarding their children’s teacher’s selection of this book for a class reading assignment. The [...]