Read Like a Librarian: (Auto)Biography edition

It’s time again to read like a Librarian! This time we’re featuring our librarians’ top picks for biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. From compelling and historic “Digging for Richard the III” to the rip roaring real life stories of Chuck Klosterman, visit the lives of real life characters, and experience how truth is very often stranger than …

NaNoWriMo Basics to Kick Start Your Novel

It’s here. It’s time. Stretch out those typing fingers, sharpen your pencils, and hook up the caffeine IV.  It’s NaNoWriMo! NaNoWriMo, to the uninitiated, is National Novel Writing Month.  Writers dedicate the month of November to starting and finishing a first draft of a novel. It doesn’t have to be amazing, it doesn’t have to …

Networking is Still a Face to Face Activity

When first starting a job search, most people head directly to their computer to update their fifteen-year-old resume (the one we should all be updating yearly) and then apply for jobs on Indeed. They may even do a little networking – reset their forgotten LinkedIn password and update their profile. Writing resumes, searching for jobs, …

Read Like a Librarian: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, & Romance

Horror! Mystery! Romance! And….rockets? Sounds like a recipe for a Hollywood blockbuster, but it’s actually our latest installment of Read Like a Librarian! We’ve got a grab bag of genres to choose from for the reader who wants everything including some great reads for Halloween. Start a new book or two or three or four from …