Have you ever thought your house was older than the date listed on your property report? Find it odd that many property reports list 1900 as the year built? Perhaps everyone in Iowa City had house-building fever at the beginning of the 20 th...
Author Archive for Anne M
Wednesday, Mar 12, 2014
Running up to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Kevin Pearce, a talented snowboarder favored to compete for the United States, struck his head while training on a half-pipe in Park City, Utah. He suffered a traumatic brain injury resulting in...
Tuesday, Feb 18, 2014
Do you have this problem? My holds are perpetually maxed out at eight, but I continually come across books I want to read. What to do? Well, I request what I want to read now or in the near future, but I use My Lists in the library catalog to...
Monday, Jan 6, 2014
Sometimes one find things by chance, wonderful things and you’re thankful that you were where you were and were doing what you were doing, because otherwise, it might have remained beneath your notice. I feel this way about The Hollow Crown...
Tuesday, Nov 5, 2013
Last month, I heard John Bradshaw on Fresh Air with Terry Gross explaining that cats do not necessarily sit on us for our warmth, they sit on us because we are friends. I liked the thought of this. I always believed that Gatsby (my cat) and I are...
Tuesday, Feb 5, 2013
At first the documentary The Queen of Versailles seems like an episode of the Real Housewives or Keeping Up with the Kardashians (or any reality show on cable television for that matter). It follows the timeshare mogul David Siegel and his wife...
Friday, Dec 7, 2012
The characters in Emma Donoghue's short story collection come from all walks of life: a German mercenary in revolutionary New Jersey trying his best to fit into his British regiment, a middle class British woman struggling to support her family,...
Monday, Nov 5, 2012
Clemetine Paddleford defined American regional cuisine. In the 1950's, she traveled every inch of this country to describe what Americans were eating, often piloting her own propeller plane. Her writing regularly appeared in The New York Herald...
Monday, Aug 13, 2012
I like a good farm novel. The remote landscape, the impossible work, the fickle mercy of the elements, and the quiet, isolated existence are characteristics of place that lend themselves to great narratives. Characters grow, fail, escape or accept...
Thursday, Jul 19, 2012
I don't have to tell you it's hot...and dry. Honestly, all I can think about is the water temperature off of the National Seashore in Cape Cod (in the sixties). But being landlocked in Iowa doesn't mean you can't turn your thoughts to the ocean in...
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About Anne M
Anne Mangano has worked for the Iowa City Public Library since 2007, serving as the Collection Services Coordinator since 2013. In this position, she oversees the Library’s collection, including the selection, cataloging, processing, repair, and removal of materials. She also plans and directs ICPL’s digital collections, including the Local Music Project and the Digital History Project. Anne holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and a Masters in Library and Information Science from Simmons University. She lives in Iowa City with her husband and two children.