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...Meanwhile, halfway across the world, the American author Kenneth C Davies, who writes the popular Don’t Know Much About series, has reassessed the power and appeal of short novels, summarising them in a...
...When public libraries pulled at least 70 books from their shelves for “review” this year, Daniel C Tsang, distinguished librarian emeritus at the University of California, Irvine, advised the local publishing...
...The librarian rudely asked what a boy of my age was doing with a book like this, but she will be laughing on the other side of her face when I’m a millionaire. Hopefully by the age of 25!...
...Every eight-week term, the Union elected a president, secretary, treasurer and librarian....
...“The typical librarian in an elementary school library has more training than Facebook managers who are the decision makers,” he says....
...But most office workers are neither construction managers nor librarians....
...This gave her money to put a music teacher, a librarian and an art teacher in every school for the first time in Washington’s history, she says....
...The initiative consists in working together with teachers and librarians and giving reading objectives to children....
...Andy Sawyer, Science Fiction Librarian, University of Liverpool Library, UK...
...“In the past libraries have been protective of their content,” says Simon Chaplin, Wellcome librarian. “Now we want to push out our material as much as possible.”...
...I could tell the librarian was impressed. Perhaps she is an intellectual like me. She didn’t look at my spot, so perhaps it is getting smaller. About time!...
...In the film C. C....
...Many librarians see it as only logical to adopt the technology in order to remain relevant....
...Although the maritime climate is changeable – nowhere is more than 5km from the ocean – the Gulf Stream ensures that harbours rarely freeze and average temperatures range from 3°C in winter to 11°C in the...
...A pale pinky-fawn coloured top, part-silk, part- cotton jersey, half- T-shirt, half-blouse, was exhibit C. It reminds me a little of old-fashioned tennis outfits....
...It is, as my numbed feet attest, more than 10°C below freezing in the corridor, but in the chambers where the seeds are kept, refrigerators push down the temperature even further, to -18°C....
...Come to that, what about builders, shop assistants, librarians, or firemen?...
...On the site, www.ec.europa.eu/civil_service/index_en.htm, we meet Marta the Spanish interpreter, whose day is enlivened trying to adapt bullfighting metaphors into 26 languages, Valerie, the librarian from...
...In his poem "A study of reading habits", poet and librarian Philip Larkin concludes that "books are a load of crap"....
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