Sarah Long
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Librarians' cookbook the perfect holiday gift for foodiesDec 13, 2008 10:00 pm - Everybody loves cookbooks. They're not just guidebooks for preparing foods. Cookbooks are portals to dreams of wonderful tastes, warm or cooling comforts and even longe...
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Chinese immigrant goes from ironing board to corporate boardDec 06, 2008 10:00 pm - When Ginny was about 6 years old, her parents announced that the family would be moving. This happens in lots of families; only Ginny's family was Chinese and the family...
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Americans like the library, but will they pay for it?Dec 01, 2008 10:00 pm - Almost everybody will tell you they love the library. And if you press them, most adults will go on to relate some fond memory of their childhood library. But will these...
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Not your stereotypical librarianNov 22, 2008 10:00 pm - Hugh Atkinson didn't look like the stereotypical librarian. He was a big, tall man, with red hair and handsome features. He wore a black patch over his right eye as the ...
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Library survives flood, now they need your helpNov 15, 2008 10:00 pm - Wednesday, June 11, 2008. Heavy rain is still falling in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. At the downtown Cedar Rapids Public Library, located across the street from the Cedar River,...
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Ela library supporting troopsNov 08, 2008 10:00 pm - During the Vietnam War, 1959-1975, U.S. soldiers were put in an untenable position. On the one hand, they were risking their lives for our nation's war effort. On the ot...
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'Julia' star Diahann Carroll writes fascinating memoirOct 25, 2008 11:00 pm - Racial tensions were never higher than in l968, with riots at the Democratic National Convention and the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis. That w...
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Digital Bookmobile comes to Schaumburg Township libraryOct 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Unexpected things on wheels always make me laugh. I would love a ride in the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile or Hershey's Kissmobile. But more realistically and closer to home...
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Pioneer architect designed libraries around the worldSep 27, 2008 11:00 pm - We lost a great name in architecture in June. Walter Netsch died of pneumonia at age 88. He was a design partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill from l947 to 1979. Even e...
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We need to be more accommodating of handicappedSep 20, 2008 11:00 pm - At the end of her life, my mother was almost completely blind as a result of detached retinas. As wonderful as modern medicine is, at that time nothing could be done to ...