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- Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 7, 2020
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Noname’s Book Club suggests libraries instead on National Fuck Amazon Day
Plus: Led Zeppelin 2 tour to celebrate Led Zeppelin III, and guitarist and composer Kevin and Hell drops a new record at his birthday party.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jan 11, 2017
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We need the Read/Write Library now more than ever
The Humboldt Park institution has taken an unconventional approach to being a “city library,” and it’s only growing more ambitious.
- News & Politics, Chicagoans Feb 21, 2014
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This week's Chicagoan: Jack Herman, scoutmaster
"That's why you want to keep these kids in the program, because it gives them some stability."
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 2, 2013
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Mayor Rahm's grand experiment: Libraries without librarians
Books as a backdrop: Mayor Rahm stages a press conference in the Payton high school library that has no librarian because of his budget cuts.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Apr 2, 2013
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Mayor Emanuel's crowded-classroom approach to fixing schools
How the school "consolidation" plan could make teaching and learning even harder.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jan 29, 2013
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Mayor Emanuel swears he's not interested in running for president
So of course he is.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 12, 2012
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Ask a librarian, and then listen
A research project leads me out of the digital cocoon
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Apr 5, 2012
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In their words: Mike Levine, acquisitions editor, Northwestern University Press
"It's important for publishers to remember that they're not technology companies. Their business is finding good books that people will want to read."
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Feb 2, 2012
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The sword is mightier than the pen
Mayor Emanuel cuts library staff and drives out the system's biggest advocate
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 1, 2010
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"Yes We Can" Win the Obama Presidential Library, Says Hawaii
Hawaii and Chicago duke it out for the Barack Obama Presidential Library and Museum.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 9, 2007
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More function, less form
The Harold Washington Public Library isn't an icon, and that's good.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 30, 2006
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Let's burn all the libraries
Budget cuts force the shuttering of multiple EPA libraries, and no, the contents aren't all available online.
- News & Politics, Feature May 4, 1995
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The Late, Great Municipal Reference Library
- News & Politics, Feature Jul 2, 1987
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In the Realm of the Censors
Judith Krug works for the American Library Association, defending books like Huckleberry Finn and Slaughterhouse Five from bigots, fanatics, and intolerant fools. Lately she's been very busy.
