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Cut and Paste and More at HOW: Hands-On Workshops
Attendees choose source material for their creations. Earlier this month, CLP – Main’s New and Featured Department held the first in its series of HOW: Hands-On Workshops. June’s HOW focused on collage...
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You should read this.
The book I’m recommending to everyone right now is The Physics of Imaginary Objects, a short story collection by Tina May Hall. I first discovered Hall by listening to an interview with her, and I was...
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You can’t do that with ebooks!
Ironically, while I was researching tutorials for setting up ereaders and downloading ebooks, I stumbled across something only possible with glue and paper books: book spine poetry. This video, from...
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Be exquisitely literate.
Be exquisitely literate with Radio CLP, the brand new official podcast of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. You probably already love the popular podcast versions of radio shows like This American Life,...
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heredity, history, crime and love
Louise Erdrich’s gorgeous prose and fascination with storytelling achieve a spellbinding hold on the reader from the very first sentence of The Plague of Doves: “The gun jammed on the last shot and...
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Make it yourself.
Since some of my beliefs have, shall we say, diverged somewhat from those of my upbringing, holidays with the family can be a little tense sometimes. My approach as a teenager was to try my hardest to...
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Let us come to you.
A few weeks ago, I announced the launch of Radio CLP, Carnegie Library’s new official podcast. Since then, we’ve posted thirteen weekly episodes. So far, they fall into several categories: librarian...
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What’s your story?
When I drive to work in the morning I listen to NPR,which means that every Friday at 8:30 am, I am going to cry. That’s when the weekly StoryCorps segment airs. As soon as I hear the intro music, I...
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“A Taste of…” Black History Month
Happy Black History Month! Join CLP all February long for our “A Taste of …” Black History Month 2012 celebration. Enjoy highlights from our collections and special events at our locations. Learn...
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A World of History in a Poem: Anna Akhmatova
But now I’m frightened. I have Got to present myself, smile at Them all and fall silent, Hugging my lace shawl. She who was I, in her black agate Necklace–till the valley of God’s anger Bring us...
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