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Round Rock Public Library
Views from above and below
Erik Larson’s Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania will be out soon–March 10–but the reviews (e.g., “…history at its harrowing best”) have me wishing I could get my hands
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Better living through Friends
Why I’m not a morning person: the tendency to awaken with sudden realization of yesterday’s missteps. The first conscious thought the day after our Book Buzz event: Robert–our Penguin Random
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Strange encounter at the library
When you think horror, think Round Rock Public Library! Wait–that didn’t come out right. But we do want fans of terrifying tales to know that we purchase books for them;
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The buzz stops here
Anticipating the Book Buzz event featuring our publisher rep, we wonder: what if popular fictional characters could present library programs?
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Feeling listless?
Which of these is the wrong answer to a reference question? A. You’re kidding, right? B. Sorry, no can do. C. Ummmmm…. D. All of the above I did use
That’s the spirit
This happened before Youtube and smartphones; otherwise the moment would have inevitably been shared: we’re among a summertime gaggle of tourists entering the Alamo–pausing inside the threshold to consider worn, hand-fashioned
Going up?
Right now, our new library building exists in that ideal theoretical dimension in which all things are possible and nobody’s dreamed-of architectural vision clashes with anyone else’s (or with functionality,
All I want is more
Remember when “binge” was a word we didn’t take lightly? Formerly, it applied to individuals straying into saloons or meeting with bad company and succumbing to more beverages than originally
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Just wait ’til you hear
We understand why library customers ask us The Question (how we feel about “libraries going away now that we have ebooks and the internet”). Earlier this week, one such inquirer
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Which came first: the fried chicken or…?
“What was the weather like?” That’s the first question co-workers asked about New York last week (I attended Book Expo America). Answer: “I wore my coat every day!”
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The art and (mad) science of summertime
On those first Tuesdays when the library opens an hour later for all-staff meeting, we’re almost never discussing what you’d think. Literary chat would be fun, but other priorities rule
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A-twitter over e-books
Ever had an unflattering photo making the rounds on social media? This happens to libraries, too. A valued (and justifiably frustrated) customer tweeted an image of the library’s copy of Flowers for
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Would you like a film with that?
For someone who pokes fun at shallow social networking relationships (one click and you’re a “friend”) I am awfully quick to claim comradeship with noted authors. Without demonstrating equal talent, one
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Self-help on many levels
We don’t operate within Downton Abbey-like social strata, and no impenetrable physical barrier (that we know of) seals off the library’s first floor from the second. Still, top-floor reference librarians
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Over there and back again
For this significant anniversary, choose when you wish to observe it. (Don’t try this at home; a wedding date is a wedding date.) With World War I’s centenary, the approach makes
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