Event Title

Discussion of The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Location

CSU Michael Schwartz Library, 1860 East 22nd Street, Rhodes Tower, room 503

Start Date

3-10-2019 11:30 AM

End Date

3-10-2019 1:00 PM

Description

Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of a devastating Los Angeles Public Library in 1986, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a mesmerizing and uniquely compelling book that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before. The Washington Post calls it "A dazzling love letter to a beloved institution" (Simon and Shuster). Discussion Leader: Glenda Thornton, President, Friends of the Michael Schwartz Library.

Attendees are welcome to bring a brown bag lunch. Refreshments will be served.

Friends of the Library book discussions are free and open to all CSU faculty, staff, and students and the general public.

Contact Barbara Loomis at b.i.loomis@csuohio.edu for more information.


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Oct 3rd, 11:30 AM Oct 3rd, 1:00 PM

Discussion of The Library Book by Susan Orlean

CSU Michael Schwartz Library, 1860 East 22nd Street, Rhodes Tower, room 503

Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of a devastating Los Angeles Public Library in 1986, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a mesmerizing and uniquely compelling book that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before. The Washington Post calls it "A dazzling love letter to a beloved institution" (Simon and Shuster). Discussion Leader: Glenda Thornton, President, Friends of the Michael Schwartz Library.

Attendees are welcome to bring a brown bag lunch. Refreshments will be served.

Friends of the Library book discussions are free and open to all CSU faculty, staff, and students and the general public.

Contact Barbara Loomis at b.i.loomis@csuohio.edu for more information.