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N is for Nicaragua and the library we built #atozblogchallenge

April 18, 2017 By Claire Annette Noland 9 Comments

N is for Nicaragua and the library we built #atozblogchallenge

Welcome to today’s A to Z Blog Challenge Post. This year I am writing about Library Love and today I’d like to share a library near and dear to my heart. When you step away from your normal routine, amazing things can happen. Last year a friend invited me to go on a woman’s retreat […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, Books, Field Trips, Inspirations, Library Love, Multicultural Children's Books, Places Tagged With: SI Nicaragua, Students International

10 Amazing Movies Filmed in Libraries #atozchallenge

April 15, 2017 By Claire Annette Noland 13 Comments

10 Amazing Movies Filmed in Libraries #atozchallenge

Libraries have been features in dozens of movies and why not? They are full of possibilities as you can see in these movies where libraries play important roles.     The Music Man This movie contains my favorite scene filmed in a library.     Harry Potter ( all of them) The Library at Hogwarts […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, Library Love Tagged With: a to z blog challenge, All the President's Men, Beauty and the Beast, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Breakfast Club, Foul Play, Ghostbusters, Harry Potter library scenes, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Movies filmed in libraries, My Fair Lady, The Music Man

L is for Library Love #atozchallenge

April 15, 2017 By Claire Annette Noland 6 Comments

L is for Library Love #atozchallenge

L is for Library Love We are celebrating National Library Week and I am excited to announce the grand opening of my very own Little Free Library!   Thanks to the generosity of my fellow children’s authors, I was able to get a library. It is being installed in front of Casa Miramar, our beach […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, Books, Library Love Tagged With: B is for Bookworm A Library Alphabet, Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians, I.Q. Goes to the Library by Mary Ann Fraser, Library Lil, Library Lion by Michelle Knudson, Little Free Library, Lola at the Library by Anna McQuinn, Madeline Finn and the Library Dog, The Library by Sarah Stewart, The Mermaid’s Purse, The Midnight Library by Kazuno Kohara

K is for Knowing #atozchallenge

April 13, 2017 By Claire Annette Noland 5 Comments

K is for Knowing #atozchallenge

Did you know that this is National Library Week? And, since today’s A to Z Blog Challenge letter is K and libraries are great depositories of knowledge, I’d like to share 10 facts about libraries and librarians you should know.     1. You can check out seeds from the seed collection at the Pima […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, Books, Library Love, Places Tagged With: a to z blog challenge, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, Famous Librarians, Kingsburg Library Murals, National Library Week, NYPL Lions

J is for Juvenile #atozchallenge

April 12, 2017 By Claire Annette Noland 8 Comments

J is for Juvenile #atozchallenge

J is for Juvenile Juvenile seems like an outdated term but libraries still catalog  books for children as Juvenile fiction or Juvenile nonfiction.   Did you know that children were not always welcomed in libraries? Early libraries were not free and open to the public. Usually they consisted of books collected by wealthy individuals who […]

Filed Under: Biographies, Blogging A to Z, Books, Library Love Tagged With: a to z blog challenge, Anne Carroll Moore, Children's Librarians history, Juvenile books, Miss Moore Thought Otherwise

I is for Iraq #atozchallenge

April 11, 2017 By Claire Annette Noland 11 Comments

I is for Iraq #atozchallenge

I is for Iraq One of the saddest things imaginable to bibliophiles, is the destruction of a library. Librarians fearlessly defend the right of their patrons to have access to information and they care for the collections entrusted to them so that they will be available for future generations. Alia Muhammad Baker was the chief […]

Filed Under: Biographies, Blogging A to Z, Books, Library Love, Multicultural Children's Books, Places Tagged With: #atoz, Alia Muhammad Baker, Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq by Marks Alan Stamaty, I is for Iraq, The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq by Jeanette Winter

H is for the Huntington Library and the Hearst Castle Library

April 10, 2017 By Claire Annette Noland 11 Comments

H is for the Huntington Library and the Hearst Castle Library

It seems that a number of libraries were built by wealthy men. I grew up near the Huntington Library and went there often. My mother took me to look through windows as scholars in white gloves turned the pages of old manuscripts. She was in awe and so was I even though, at the time, […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, Books, Library Love, Places Tagged With: Blogging a to z, Chronicles From Chateau Moines, Evelyne Holingue, Hearst Castle Library, Huntington Library

G is for Ghosts in the Library #AtoZchallenge

April 8, 2017 By Claire Annette Noland 6 Comments

G is for Ghosts in the Library #AtoZchallenge

There are many folks who believe they’ve encountered a ghost in a library. And why not? A library seems like a perfect place for a ghost to live. Here are a few libraries known for their ghosts: The Willard Library in Evansville, Indiana, is located in a Gothic Victorian building where a veiled lady in grey […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, Library Love Tagged With: Bernardsville Library ghost, Parmly Billings Library ghosts, Ramona Convent High School ghost, The Haunted Library series by Dori Hillestad Butler, Willard Library ghost sightings

F is for Found (and Friends) #AtoZchallenge

April 7, 2017 By Claire Annette Noland 9 Comments

F is for Found (and Friends) #AtoZchallenge

F is for Found (and Friends) #AtoZchallenge Odd things are often used for bookmarks and librarians often document their discoveries. I have found recipes, pressed flowers, photos, and shopping lists. My author friend, Angelica Carpenter (librarian emeritus Arne Nixon Library) told me the two oddest things she found was a piece of bacon and a […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, Library Love Tagged With: a to z blog challenge, Found in a library book

E is for Egypt #atozchallenge

April 6, 2017 By Claire Annette Noland 11 Comments

E is for Egypt #atozchallenge

  Welcome to Day 5 of the #AtoZchallenge where I am exploring the library world in alphabetical order. E is for Egypt One of the mysteries of the ancient world centers around the Royal Library in the port city of Alexandria, Egypt. It is believed that scholar Demetrious of Phalerum, convinced Ptolemy I Soter (a […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, Field Trips, Library Love, Places, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bibliotheca Alexandrina, E is for Egypt, Guardians of the Lost Library, Library of Alexandria

Dis for Dewey #atozchallenge

April 5, 2017 By Claire Annette Noland 4 Comments

Dis for Dewey #atozchallenge

D is For Dewey Welcome to Day 4 of the A to Z Blog Challenge! It can seem overwhelming at times to find a book in the library. Thankfully, there’s a system used in public libraries – the Dewey decimal System developed by (drumroll please) Melvin Dewey! Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey was born in 1851 […]

Filed Under: Library Love Tagged With: D is for Dewey, Dewey Decimal Chart, Melvil Dewey, The Library by Grant Snider

C is for Carnegie #atozchallenge

April 4, 2017 By Claire Annette Noland 1 Comment

C is for Carnegie #atozchallenge

C is for Carnegie Most people know of Andrew Carnegie as a steel magnate who immigrated from Scotland in poverty and became one of the wealthiest men in the world. He should be known more for his philanthropy. He gave most of his fortune away to fund a system of public libraries. Between 1886 and […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, Books, Library Love Tagged With: AtoZ BlogChallenge 2017, Carnegie Libraries, Hanford Carnegie Library, Orosi Carnegie Library

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