This edition of Today in Books is sponsored by Shadow Mountain Publishing.
The Library of Congress Invites You To Transcribe!
Via crowd.loc.gov you can volunteer to transcribe historical work “and tag digitized images of text materials from the Library’s collections.” Basically, it’s a tour you can take through history while helping to get access to handwritten works online!
Iowa Public Library Is Exploring Legal Action
after a homophobic patron checked out LGBTQ+ books and burned them. If you’re stocked up on seeing all the hate everywhere, the library gave info if you’d like to send them LGBTQ+ books to replace their loss.
2018 National Book Awards Host Is…
Nick Offerman! Along with being a great actor, he is utterly delightful as a human being, and being that he’s also a bestselling author, this is such a great choice.
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