Rolling Stone columnist Rob Sheffield ’s book “On Bowie” is an ode to rock legend, David Bowie , who died in January of this year. Sheffield, a Bowie fanatic, was approached immediately following the news of Bowie’s death and asked to write...
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Thursday, Aug 4, 2016
The Iowa City Public Library is celebrating our fifth year of offering free downloadable music from regional artists via the Local Music Project . This unique service allows ICPL cardholders to download over 80 albums from artists based in eastern...
Friday, Apr 22, 2016
Back in November I wrote about using the City of Iowa City Housing & Inspection Services’ permit activity lookup tool for finding more information about Iowa City house history. A coworker recently showed me another great house history...
Friday, Apr 22, 2016
The latest in the Bur Oak Books series from the University of Iowa Press is Cornelia Mutel’s account on climate change as seen from the mixed oak woodlands in rural Johnson County, Iowa. The book is cleverly structured to follow the four seasons...
Thursday, Feb 4, 2016
For a few years now we've been slowly integrating a catalog discovery layer that we've called CatalogPro , this is a keyword search that allows for a narrowing down of results after the search is initiated. It's gotten more powerful over the years...
Monday, Nov 16, 2015
Recently I was trying to research the construction history for my house and found some errors and/or incomplete information. The Iowa City Assessor site has a Parcel Search lookup which shows you a lot of property detail. Unfortunately, like many...
Thursday, Jun 4, 2015
As an avid birdwatcher my favorite reference questions obviously involve bird identification quandaries. The other night a patron showed me a photo she'd taken on her smart phone of a group of large dark-colored birds in a field. I don't think...
Thursday, Mar 26, 2015
The B.Y.O.Book "Books In Bars" book club had our second of three winter meetups at Brix Cheese Shop & Wine Bar last Tuesday to discuss Jon Ronson's The psychopath test : a journey through the madness industry . Each session ends with us...
Wednesday, Jan 7, 2015
Teenager Holly Mackey (daughter of a Detective featured in French’s previous detective novels) is living and studying at an all-girls boarding school outside of Dublin, Ireland. The administrator of the school posted a notice board where students...
Thursday, Oct 2, 2014
David Mitchell is my favorite writer and I was so excited for this book to arrive. Like many of his earlier books ( Ghostwritten , Cloud Atlas ) this is another novel broken up into novellas/chapters focusing on different characters that are...
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About Jason
Jason is Adult Services Coordinator. He oversees reference services offered at the Info Desk, Switchboard, Digital Media Lab, Koza Family Teen Center, and Page Station. He coordinates programming opportunities for adults and teens.