The Route 3 Blog

I blog about learning, libraries, books, literacy, and related social issues. I also post poems from time to time.

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Poem: The Year of the Rat

Black-and-white sketched image of a small rat with a long tail streaming behind it. Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay.

Twenty ways to love libraries in 2020

Image by Dariusz Sankowski from Pixabay

How to survive a midlife master’s

Get your learnin’ without killing yourself.

Librarians working to end period poverty

Myths & Lessons

This month I finished Naomi Wolf’s  feminist classic, The Beauty Myth. It had been on my need-to-read list for 28 years.

The Banned and the Challenged

 

Image of the word “Banned” in red capital letters from Pixabay

On censorship and the love of banned books

Feel-good news story: Tonga is getting its first public library

Image of Tongan flag on bricks by David Peterson from Pixabay

Homelessness and migration through the eyes of a child: Two powerful young adult books

Image by Alexas Fotos from Pixabay

Never to be forgotten: Remembering Emmett Till

Two museums, a library archive, a website, and an app devoted to preserving the memory of Emmett Till

In support of women philosophers: Interning with Project Vox

The Ladies Library frontispiece, attributed to L. Du Guernier, and title page. Public domain image retrieved from archive.org. (Original housed at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library in Williamstown, Massachusetts.)