Beyond Book Lending How Libraries Help Communities
As communities change, many libraries are adapting and creating innovative ways to help patrons and their communities. Here’s a look at 5 libraries around the world that are lending clothes, offering a program to read your fine away, delivering books via donkeys and camels, and helping homeless people.
Nationwide Cull Leads To Book Burning
A library in Zhenyuan County, Gansu was seen burning books and according to Chinese media reports the county’s website explains it has been focusing on removing and destroying biased, religious, and illegal books. “The news of the book burning, now deleted from Zhenyuan county’s website, has prompted a wave of criticism from commentators and internet users who were reminded of the Qin dynasty, when books were burned and scholars burned alive as a way to control the populace and prevent criticism of the regime.”
It’s So Shiny!
The trailer AND the gold outfit Wonder Woman wears towards the end of the Wonder Woman 1984 trailer! So many questions and so many thoughts–seriously, how do I get that shiny gold outfit?!–but for now I’m just gonna jam to the awesome music and watch the trailer a few more–twenty, probably twenty–times.