libraries
Pirate Kings and library-lovers
The third winner of last month’s National Library Week giveaway, Ashley W. tells us about her “Thrill in the Stacks”: My most personal library thrill actually happened at an archives. The Archives, to be exact. A friend works at the National Archives and is a specialist in US Department of State records. He was taking…
Read MoreDay Two of Library Thrills
Our second winner of the National Library Week contest (and there is no rank among the winners, by the way, no first prize or runners-up) is by “EMB”. And how could it not be, coupling precision with the words “Bodleian” and “mitigation” in its very first sentence–then going on to a mystery involving the Tremulous…
Read MoreNational Library Week contest, at last
Last month, while I was away in Japan, we ran a contest with the theme “Thrills in the Stacks”—asking for some exciting event that happened in the library. I read the submissions when I got back 2 weeks ago, but although I don’t do jet lag, I do get really stupid for a while after…
Read MoreNational Library Week
This is the last day to submit your description of your library thrills in honor of National Library Week to thrills@laurierking.com. For details, see https://laurierking.com/events/library-week-2012
Read MoreThere was a library in Syracuse…
Rosamond Gifford was the only child of a wealthy lawyer, who inherited a fortune in 1917, invested it with care, and left a greater fortune when she died in 1953. The first grant of the Rosamond Gifford Trust was a set of incubators for premature babies; her most recent grant brought me to Syracuse to…
Read MoreMysterious California
I love libraries. I adore them, always and continuously. My abiding affection had a boost last night, with an event in the Sunnyvale (CA) library, where some of the staff remembered me as part of an event—oh, how many years ago could it have been? Thirteen? Fourteen?—with Sisters in Crime authors. This time it was…
Read MoreThe romance of research
An academic’s love letter to the stacks, to mark National Library Week. Now, I’m as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched in the basements of libraries around the world, madly feeding books through their machines. I download obscure tomes…
Read MoreWe Love Libraries!
Happy National Library Week! I had an impressive tour of the Santa Cruz library last week, from check-in to donations collection. I’ve also had a haul of books from the university library, building blocks for the story I’m working on. Both reminded me how much I love and depend on libraries. Don’t go to your…
Read MoreFantasy Library contest
As I said yesterday, this was no easy contest to judge. I hope you’ve looked at my top ten submissions, which I chose in part with an eye to having some of each kind. (The only things we didn’t get were audio or video submissions. Or baked goods, none of those so far have arrived.) …
Read MoreNational Library Fantasies
Mary Russell’s Wednesday post is over on her MySpace page — and that episode of “A Case in Correspondence” in its original form will appear here on Friday. ** Oh, I’ve had such fun looking at the submissions for the Fantasy Library contest—you people are great! The only problem is, after setting the contest under way, I now…
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