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On the 90th birthday of Lorraine Hansberry, let's pick up and read LOOKING FOR LORRAINE, an award-winning biography by . She died too young, but left us so much life as Perry chronicles.

13 Pioneering Black American Librarians You Oughta Know Here are 12 pioneering Black American librarians, but this is only a fraction of the black librarians who have left a lasting legacy in librarianship.

You can now download over 200 art books from the Guggenheim for free If you're a lover of art books, we've got a helpful tip for you: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum offers more the 200 exhibition catalogs that you can download

American Writer Museum Presents: Laila Lalami What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize­­–finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of the rights, liberties, and protections that are t...

Library staff nightmare after cleaner rearranges books by SIZE during lockdown LIBRARY staff have been left with a nightmare after a cleaner rearranged ALL the books in size order during a lockdown deep clean. The well-meaning worker popped back the books after giving them a …

Happy Friday, everyone! is just stopping by the Racine Public Library, which was built in 1958. Books from the former Carnegie library (now the museum) were transferred via human bucket brigade to this library by volunteers!

Shakespeare’s Globe is streaming ‘Romeo and Juliet’ for free for the next fortnight

Download 569 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art You could pay $118 on Amazon for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's catalog The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry.

Opinion | What we lost when we stopped reading Something vital to democratic culture is waning.

Dolly Parton will be reading bedtime stories for your kids! Calling herself "the book lady," Dolly invited everyone to join her for "Goodnight with Dolly."

New video by Debra Hall

Browse Exhibits · Racine Heritage Museum Institute of Museum & Library ServicesThe SC Johnson Fund Inc.Racine Community FoundationArch W Shaw FoundationRacine County

The National Theatre is going to stream a free play every Thursday night

Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to Students and the Public | Internet Archive Blogs Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to Students and the Public Posted on March 24, 2020 by chrisfreeland To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend....

Latest Hotspot for Coronavirus Hoarders: The Public Library

Your Kids Can Watch An Astronaut Read Them A Story from Space When you just can't read Goodnight Moon one more time, why not delegate story time

Libraries Matter to Families. They Don't Matter to Trump. The Trump 2021 budget plan would cut federal funding for every library across the country.

Proposed Tennessee Bill Threatens Librarians with Fines or Jail Time A pending bill in the Tennessee legislature would bring widespread censorship to the state’s public libraries.

There’s No “Science of Reading” Without School Libraries and Librarians, A Predictor of Student Success The loss of libraries and qualified librarians in the poorest schools has reached a critical mass. Yet those who promote a Science of Reading (SoR), often supporting online reading programs, never …

The First Body-Positive Children’s Book Just Came Out, and It’s Exactly What the World Needs Now Bloggers Ady Meschke and Katie Crenshaw collaborated on "Her Body Can," the first book in a series of inclusive children's literature.

Racine's own Kevin Henkes!

Kevin Henkes enters the pantheon The children’s lit superstar receives a major award

Local Bookstores Have A New Weapon In The Fight With Amazon Bookshop.org is looking to generate revenue for independent book stores by moving sales, and affiliate links, away from Amazon and toward independent bookstores.

Check out the upcoming Spirituality Symposium series hosted at the Racine Public Library! Monica L. Cummings D.Min., SAC-IT, RYT® 200, who is a Spiritual Guide and Warriors at Ease L1 Teacher from the Kenosha Center for Spirituality and Healing will be leading the symposium. Her contact number is 262-237-2774 or you can reach out to the Center with questions at 262-664-4100! 😊

Harrison Ford for America's Libraries New video PSA from “Call of the Wild” star Harrison Ford highlights how libraries are full of adventure! The video is available for download at: http://bit.l...

'American Dirt' fiasco exposes publishing industry that's too consolidated, too white and too sel... Publishers funnel massive amounts of resources into promoting titles that they think will become bestsellers. But they've become spellbound by 'stories of struggle' th...

Public Libraries’ Latest Offering: Musical Instruments Libraries, as well as private initiatives are trying to get more instruments into more hands.

Flashback: A heroine to history: Vivian Harsh, Chicago’s first black librarian, preserved black history, literature with massive collection You won’t find a book by Vivian Harsh on a library shelf. But Chicago’s first black librarian was fiercely committed to history. A special collection bearing her name speaks to her laborious efforts to preserve African American history and literature.

In 2019, more Americans went to the library than to the movies. Yes, really. The US film industry may have generated revenues somewhere in the region of $40 billion last year, but it seems Hollywood still has plenty of work to do if it wants to compete with that most hallow…

Jerry Craft Breaks Barriers with Historic 2020 Newbery Win The first graphic novel to take home the award,New Kidis the book that Craft wrote for his 10-year-old self, who rarely saw books with which he could identify.

Racine's own Kevin Henkes!

Congratulations to Wisconsin’s own KEVIN HENKES! Kevin was awarded the “Children’s Literature Legacy Award” today in Philadelphia. This honor is awarded to a substantial and lasting contributor to literature for children...demonstrating integrity and respect!

ALA responds to National Archive efforts to alter materials CHICAGO – The American Library Association (ALA) released the following statement regarding the National Archive’s efforts to alter photographs that include protest signs unflattering to our current administration.

He Acted As His High School's 'Indian.' 50 Years Later, He Calls For Ending Native American Mascots. In 1968, Richie Plass dressed up as his high school's Indian mascot. Today, he's built an exhibit that demonstrates the harms of stereotyping and reducing Native Americans to cartoons.

Right-Wing 'Review Boards' in Missouri Would Pave Way for Arresting Librarians Over Books Deemed 'Inappropriate' "Every reader and writer in the country should be horrified, absolutely horrified, at this bill."

On Jan. 11, Rapper Noname Wants You To Register For A Library Card The independent artist started a book club with the intention of promoting works by authors of color; now she's encouraging community engagement, too.

The Art of Book Covers (1820–1914) Selection of book covers produced during the bookbinding revolution of the 19th century and beyond.

Librarians are mocking all the people who annoy them at work Librarians got jokes.

40 Children's Books Celebrating Native American and Indigenous Mighty Girls Buffy Sainte-Marie on Sesame Street When I was a little girl I was taught that there were no Indians. The only time I ever saw Indians was when we visited the stupid natural history museum and they were dead and stuffed like the dinosaurs.... [When Sesame Street] called me up and said that they want...