National Library Week is this week. It is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association and was first celebrated in 1958. Libraries have seen many changes in the past 46 years, but the core values of literacy, free access to...
Author Archive for Susan
Monday, Mar 24, 2014
The Library has worked under a strategic plan for more than thirty years, adopting a new one every four or five years. It is often noted by new Library Board members, with varying degrees of astonishment, that we actually follow our plan! The first...
Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014
I don’t know about you, but I am more ready for spring than I have been the last few years. I have been asked a couple of times this winter if the Library was closing. Typically, we are open in most weather, including snow. If the snow is very...
Wednesday, Feb 12, 2014
Who doesn’t love their library? Public libraries are held in high regard by most people. A new Pew study shows that over 90 percent of Americans older than 16 think that public libraries improve the quality of life in a community, are important...
Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012
Lisbeth Salander fans meet Detective Constable Fiona Griffiths who can't quite walk the straight and narrow and follow the orders her boss gives her. She works double duty to keep contributing to a disturbing case of a young woman, likely a...
Sunday, Jul 15, 2012
It seems like we live in a very political time -- but, it might give you some satisfaction to know that it could be worse after you read The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye. This debut mystery is set in 1845 New York City, where politics is in all...
Monday, Jun 4, 2012
Scottish author Denise Mina is a favorite of mine -- not always easy to follow, but then, people are more her thing than a plot. Both the plot and the people in this second title featuring DS Alexandra Morrow are grim indeed. The story skips...
Monday, May 28, 2012
Henry House was born in 1946 and spent his first year as "practice baby" in a college home economics program designed to teach young women how to be mothers. (Yes, this was really a common practice across the country). Typically babies were...
Friday, Apr 27, 2012
If you like dark psychological mysteries you will like Blue Monday from husband and wife writing team Nicci French. You will meet Frieda Klein a complex, solitary London psychotherapist whose belief in the absolute confidentiality of her...
Friday, Mar 30, 2012
This intriguing novel starts in Minnesota, at a big pharmaceutical research lab, where Marina Singh has worked for several years. Dr Singh's colleague, Anders Eckman, went to the Amazon area to get a progress report from veteran researcher, Dr...
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About Susan
Susan was the Library Director of the Iowa City Public Library before retiring in 2018.