From Publisher’s Weekly By Claire Kirch Minnesota license plates proclaim that the state is the Land of 10,000 Lakes. It could just as well be called the land of 10,000 presses. Many consider the Twin Cities, with their concentration and variety of publishers, literary organizations, and related businesses, second only to New York City in…
Read MoreFrom the Pioneer Press By Mary Ann Grossmann [email protected] Kay Sexton, a former vice president of B. Dalton Bookseller whose reading recommendations were nationally influential, died Friday, October 17, at her home in Arden Hills. She was 91 and had been in declining health for several years, according to her niece, Leslie Walters. Sexton, who…
Read MoreSaint Paul Public Library’s “Borrow the Internet” project will offer loans of Wi-Fi hotspots with free Internet service, focused on neighborhoods along the Green Line transit corridor.
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SAINT PAUL, October 13, 2014 – The Saint Paul Public Library has named Tony Yang as Deputy Director. Yang, who will begin in this position on November 3, 2014, will serve as the library’s chief operating officer with responsibilities for budgeting and finance, administration and staffing, contracting, management reporting, and program evaluation. Yang will succeed Deputy…
Read MoreFitzgerald’s Short Stories Featured in New Program/Discussion Series “Fitzgerald loved, hated, and was obsessed by St. Paul… [his] short stories place Fitzgerald’s ambitions and gifts in a cultural context too often ignored and forgotten.” — author Charles Baxter SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA – October 6, 2014 – FitzFirst@Four, a monthly series of presentations and discussions on F.…
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The Friends of the Library ask the City to protect Saint Paul’s world-class library by maintaining a minimum level of dedicated funding for the library’s collections budget, while ensuring access to materials with some restored hours of service in 2015.
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