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The Personal Librarian was a top book club pick in November 2021, [3] March 2022, [4] and April 2022. [5] In 2021, the book was named a "Favorites of Favorites" by Library Reads, [6] as well as one of Booklist's top ten historical fiction novels. [7] It was also nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction. [8]
The library where he worked as a children's librarian, Fairfield Civic Center Library, a branch of the Solano County Library in Solano County, California, is the same library he grew up patronizing. [4] [7] In 2013, Threets began working there at age 23, shelving books, and worked his way to becoming supervising librarian of his branch in ...
[1] Belle da Costa Greene (November 26, 1879 – May 10, 1950) was an American librarian who managed and developed the personal library of J. P. Morgan. After Morgan died in 1913, Greene continued as librarian for his son, Jack Morgan , and in 1924 was named the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library .
"That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America," (Bloomsbury, 288 pages, $29.99) by Amanda Jones
The book was a New York Times bestseller, [13] and was included in the best seller lists of the Los Angeles Times [14] and USA Today. [15] It has a Goodreads average rating of 4.23. [16] Kirkus Reviews calls the narrative voice of Book Woman "engaging", and praises how well-researched the novel is, illuminating the history of 1930s Kentucky ...
Joanna Cole – children's book author and librarian; Ina Coolbrith – poet and librarian; Frank Coombs – U.S. politician; State Librarian of California, 1898–1899; Gratia Countryman – Minneapolis librarian; Pierre François le Courayer – 18th-century theologian; Evelyn Crowell – librarian, author, speaker, activist, and community ...
Nancy Pearl (born January 12, 1945) is an American librarian, best-selling author, literary critic and the former executive director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library. [1]
She retired from the librarian role in 1944 (with a pension of $100 per month, and a cash gift of $1497 from Club members [1]), and holds the distinction of having the longest single tenure as librarian in the club's history. George Leslie McKay, who had been appointed as her assistant in 1923, succeeded her as librarian.