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Leading Kids to Books Through Crafts

American Library Association

American Library Association, 2000

Leading Kids to Books Through Magic

American Library Association

American Library Association, 1996

The Learned and the Lewed

Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature

Larry D. Benson

Harvard University Press, 1974

The essays gathered in this volume, organized around the theme of medieval literature, display a great range of subjects and of critical approaches. One third of the pieces deal with Chaucer: his use of mythology, his characters, narrative techniques, his treatment of courtly love. Other contributions focus on medieval proverbs and ballads, medieval use of classical authors, John Gower, Lydgate, Icelandic saga, the Middle Scots poets, problems of teaching medieval drama in twentieth-century classrooms, French influences on Middle English literature, and the tale of Robin Hood.

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LGBTQAI+ Books for Children and Teens

Providing a Window for All

Christina Dorr

American Library Association, 2018

The Librarian's Atlas

The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain

Seth Kimmel

University of Chicago Press, 2024

A history of early modern libraries and the imperial desire for total knowledge.

Medieval scholars imagined the library as a microcosm of the world, but as novel early modern ways of managing information facilitated empire in both the New and Old Worlds, the world became a projection of the library. In The Librarian’s Atlas, Seth Kimmel offers a sweeping material history of how the desire to catalog books coincided in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with the aspiration to control territory. Through a careful study of library culture in Spain and Morocco—close readings of catalogs, marginalia, indexes, commentaries, and maps—Kimmel reveals how the booklover’s dream of a comprehensive and well-organized library shaped an expanded sense of the world itself.

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Library and Information Science

A Guide to Key Literature and Sources

Michael Bemis

American Library Association, 2014

Living Off the Country

Essays on Poetry and Place

John Haines

University of Michigan Press, 1981

When he was a homesteader in Alaska, poet John Haines moved away from language and institutions to an older and simpler existence. In solitude, listening to his own voice, the events of his life reached into the past and the future.
We live on the surface, he discovered. It is the land that makes people. If a poet will see, will feel, will interpret his place and then relate that experience to what he knows of the world at large, he will have a life in imagination, a vitality beyond appearances.
John Haines is author of At the End of Summer: Poems 1948-1954; Fables and Distances: New and Selected Essays; and The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer. He received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 1991.

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Local History Reference Collections for Public Libraries

Kathy Marquis

American Library Association, 2015