Tag: Daniel Radcliff

January 22, 2012 by Betsy Bird

Video Sunday: “Yesterday I bought a Volvo”

When a video has reached over two million views, it’s usually safe to assume that everyone has seen it. However, there’s always the possibility that you have not, so with that in mind what better way to start off today’s Video Sunday then by looking at books with a sense of rhythm? This is the […]

November 14, 2010 by Betsy Bird

Video Sunday: For a Nancy Drew fan it was a dream come true

When I worked in the Jefferson Market Library, round about five years ago, we showed filmstrips every Thursday. Now these were actual strips of film. Films that had been in the library’s collection for who knows how many decades. So in 2005 I was typing out carbons (true) and sending them to our central media […]

October 30, 2010 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: I speak for the trees . . . and oatmeal

Lest we forget that book banning and free speech issues are conversational topics appropriate beyond the brackets of Banned Books Week, a recent news item has me lost for words. A federal appeals court has ruled, and this is true, that an Ohio high school teacher “has no First Amendment right to make assignments about […]