Category Archives: USA

What’s In A Name

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Brian D. Butler
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We Still Love Our Libraries In North America

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Brian D. Butler

Last week, the American Institute of Architects and the American Library Association announced the winners of the AIA/ALA Library Building Awards for 2016. To qualify, an institution had to display an innovative reinvention of traditional library design. Are the winners:

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America’s Libraries

Posted on April 16, 2016 by Brian D. Butler

The American Library Association has released its annual Top Ten List of Frequently Challenged Books, which is included in the ALA’s yearly State of America’s Libraries Report. You can read the report in its entirety here. The Top Ten Most … Continue reading →

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India to NYC

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Brian D. Butler

The engaging and moving film Sugarless Tea uses watercolor paintings and stop motion techniques to visualize a very personal story of a journey between rural India and Queens, New York. Created by painter Amanda Selvarajan and her husband filmmaker Sai … Continue reading →

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Useful & Beautiful

Posted on April 11, 2016 by Brian D. Butler

 

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Yes, It’s National Poetry Month Again

Posted on April 9, 2016 by Brian D. Butler
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Painting With Light

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Brian D. Butler

For 2,000 years the Temple of Dendur sat on the banks of the River Nile. In 1965, the government of Egypt gifted the Temple ruins to the United States and in 1978 it was rebuilt in the Sackler Wing of … Continue reading →

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Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Posted on April 2, 2016 by Brian D. Butler

Washington D.C.’s outstanding National Museum of Natural History has decided to give us all a behind the scenes peek at its massive collections. The Smithsonian Institution has allowed photographer Chip Clark unprecedented access to just a small part of its … Continue reading →

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Eat for free in NYC

Posted on April 1, 2016 by Brian D. Butler

This amusing video provides simple instruction on how to eat for free in New York City, assuming that you’re up for a little dumpster diving. Although it’s been years, I have to admit that I was a practitioner of the … Continue reading →

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Happy Easter

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Brian D. Butler
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