Tag Archives: Libraries

Little Free Libraries – Boon or Blessing?

Posted on November 10, 2025 by jlredford

I was out taking my constitutional the other evening when I noticed a new little free library. There are five of them within just three blocks of my house: Hmm! I see from the Little Free Library site that about … Continue reading →

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Libraries – Old and Grand, or New and Bland

Posted on September 19, 2024 by jlredford

Last summer I tried to visit every local library that I could get to by bicycle. It was an excuse to exercise, but I had also just read “The Library Book” by Susan Orlean (2018). It’s a history of the … Continue reading →

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“Lethal Tides” – Researcher Heroines of WW II

Posted on March 8, 2023 by jlredford

“Lethal Tides – Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II” by Catherine Musemeche is a thorough biography of the sort of person that is easy to overlook. Sears was an unassuming marine biologist who wound … Continue reading →

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The Modern Alexandria?

Posted on September 30, 2010 by jlredford

What modern city would match Hypatia‘s Alexandria?  Not in the sense of being filled with murderous mobs, of course, but in terms of being a main repository of knowledge.

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