If someone said that recent technological advances made the printed book, as the conveyor of knowledge and information, obsolete, would you think this prediction a recent one? What about a […]
Book Fest At the Peabody Library: It’s the Best Ever!
Are you a local literature lover? Is your ideal day rummaging through book sales and attending talks from the high brow to the nonsensical? Do you fancy each tome whispering […]
Company Histories: Heroes & Happy Endings
Many of us have been entertained in recent years by newspaper and television reports, books, and even biopics about how clever e-entrepreneurs such as Mark Zuckerberg with Facebook and Steve […]
Adventures of the General Jewish Encyclopedia
Looking into MSEL’s collections can lead you to travel across continents and to share incredible adventures. Editing and publishing books can become quite an endeavor when it meets history’s turmoil. […]
Commencement Programs Live On
While Commencement may be months or years away for many of you, we want to announce a new digital asset that has just been created. Each year in late May, […]
Detective Work and Discovery: Connecting the Dots in the Roland Park Company Archives
Arrangement and description of the Roland Park Company Archives continues to be a work in progress, but we know that one of the most popular parts of this collection will […]
Growing up and Grown Up: Memoir Graphic Novels
Graphic novels can be great for relaxed summer reading and for intriguing stories (see our posts “Get Graphic!” and “Summer Reading: On the Go!”). But, graphic novels are not afraid […]
Readers as Illustrators
Human beings are hard-wired to rely on visual perception; perhaps this explains why we really, really like to look at pictures. And when we read, we often want to see […]
The Movies Are Coming, So Read the Books Now
Everyone knows that the book is always better than the movie, right? (Of course there are exceptions: I could never get through The Shining, so finally saw the movie. But […]
88 Books that Shaped America
I love lists. I especially love lists of books. The Library of Congress recently complied a list of the 88 books that shaped America. Note, that this isn’t a list […]