What's happening at the library and items of interest to the UB community
For November, listed below are some recently acquired ebooks added to the RLB Library’s ebook collection. Respect and Loathing in American Democracy : Polarization, Moralization, and the Undermining of Equality by Jeff Spinner-Halev and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, 2024. Respect is in Continue reading Ebooks to Read Now–New Titles for November Reading
Darn that American Library Association and their need to make the focus of National Library Week as broad and all-encompassing as ever! This year’s theme for National Library Week (April 13-19) is: Lives change @ your library [sic]. Well, sure Continue reading All Hail National Library Week!
Cast of “White Christmas” (via Smithsonian.com) When it comes to holiday down-time, folks usually choose seasonally appropriate flicks to get them in the mood for merriment. Most of these traditional holiday movies are great, but you can watch a humiliated Continue reading I’m Dreaming of a Non-Christmas
The past year has been a pretty good one for cinephiles. Not great. But good. While the caliber of movies coming out of Hollywood is on average very, very, very low (and yes I did need three verys. Did you Continue reading Holy Motors: The Weirdest (and Best) Movie of the Year
I was watching The Simpsons on Sunday, wherein a frustrated Homer Simpson longed to transform into someone radically cooler than he, himself, is. One of the things he used to describe his complete lack of with it-ness, which he hoped Continue reading The Best of the Black and Whites