The Second Floor Librarians

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Tomorrow is the 4th of July, and to celebrate, here are some quotes about one of the things that makes America great – her public libraries.

A while back, we had a nice exchange with one of our Twitter friends, John Bergquist (@johnflurry). He posted a link to a Huffington Post article with pictures of amazing libraries around the world. Readers have been voting on their favorites, and at the moment, the top library is the Long Room in the Trinity [...]

After a recent stint of living in Dijon, France I got to know my local library there and inevitably compared it to our own CBCPL. Dijon is a city of 150,000, so it isn’t really fair to compare the two systems, but just for fun I will anyway.

You might remember that I’m the ebook advocate here at the library. You may also recall that my recent post (after attending the BEA conference a few weeks ago) was ebook heavy. Well, here is why…

I miss my Mom today. She’s about an 8 hour drive and a border crossing away on Mother’s Day. But like a good Mom, she reads my work blog, so I know she’ll see this post. This post is to thank my Mom and all the other parents out there who give their children one [...]

So do you think that it is a bit cheeky for us to name our website “thebestlibrary.net“?  We set a high standard for ourselves when we did that and we do our best to live up to it. You patrons are the ones who keep us on our toes (or hold our feet to the [...]