We’re always learning at the Iowa City Public Library and recently we have learned a lot about bedbugs, because we found some at the Library. Bedbugs have been a growing problem in many places, including libraries. After we had single...
Author Archive for Susan
Tuesday, Nov 29, 2016
We do like to name things: Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday. I appreciate the concept of Giving Tuesday because it gives us a specific reminder at a very hectic time of the year. Often the end of the year comes and I think, I...
Thursday, Oct 6, 2016
The days are getting shorter, the political sniping is at an all- time high (or is that low?) and won’t end for weeks (or is it perpetual?), up north they just had a serious flood and down south they are evacuating for a hurricane. It’s...
Monday, Sep 12, 2016
Iowa City is going to be hosting an international event on September 24 in a sport few Americans know much about -- Cyclo-cross. In preparation the Library has planned three programs so people can educate themselves about the sport. Last week...
Tuesday, Aug 16, 2016
It's safe to say I am NOT a digital native -- I learned to type on a manual typewriter in high school ! I was very involved in library technology in the 1970s and 80s, but about the time of the rise of personal computers and then smart phones...
Wednesday, Jun 29, 2016
Shoppers at the 2015 Arts & Crafts Bazaar On those summer days when the sun beats down, the humidity goes up, and it's just not pleasant outside consider starting your crafting project for the Library's annual Arts & Crafts Bazaar...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
The Iowa City City Council has approved funding for a new library service -- a bookmobile! The timeline calls for the bookmobile (which has to be custom designed and built) to hit Iowa City streets in March of 2017. The idea for the service grew...
Thursday, Apr 21, 2016
Some of my earliest memories are of my mother taking my brothers and me to the Waterloo Public Library. We would lay in the "big" bed at night and she would read us library books. My mother instilled in me a love of books, reading, and...
Tuesday, Mar 15, 2016
It’s early spring and I am walking around my yard thinking about what needs pruning, what new plants I want to make room for that I have learned about during the winter gardening programs I have attended and what areas need special attention this...
Friday, Jan 29, 2016
Lila by Marilynne Robinson is the 2016 All Iowa Reads book and I want to encourage everyone to read it. Robinson is a brilliant author, her last four novels have been: a finalist for the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, awarded the 2005 Pulitzer,...
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About Susan
Susan was the Library Director of the Iowa City Public Library before retiring in 2018.