While we did put up the obligatory Black History Month book display in the Social Sciences room at Central Library during the month of February, we purposefully left it up longer than 28 days, and are blogging in late March to remind folks that St. Louis Public Library has Black history resources available all year…
Feminism/#MeToo (it’s complicated…)
The books that we gathered into a book display when the Merriam-Webster Dictionary declared "feminism" its word of the year for 2017 are being disbursed back to their shelves, but the issues that prompted M-W's choice are still very much in the headlines and the zeitgeist. As noted in the title of this blog post…
Hello 2018!
To help our patrons welcome the year 2018 we assembled a book display here in the Social Sciences room at Central Library featuring works about various oracular and divination tools on one side (with a view toward helping discern The Future), and on the reverse, books to assist with setting a new year’s resolution and/or…
New to the Social Sciences Room: It’s the Law!
As previously mentioned, there have been some exciting changes at Central, and specifically in the Social Sciences room where we have expanded our holdings which used to run from #Dewey 001-339, now include ALL of the 300s. To help familiarize our patrons with the new (to us) subject areas, we plan to feature one or…
Reformation, Revolution, and Rebels
2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation and the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, which inspired this alliterative display with books on those topics, with a few additional rebels thrown into the mix. Click here for a full list of what was on display, and read on to learn…
Becoming Jane Jacobs
For Halloween 2017, the Social Sciences Librarian looked around the room for her annual "dress like someone from the collection" costume and settled on "Becoming Jane Jacobs" (for the 2016 costume choice, see last year's blog post). Jacobs was an author, urban planner, and activist who had a lasting effect on urban planing and design with…
Headed to college? Let us help!
St. Louis Public Library is a great resource for all things higher education. Our books can help you identify your dream school, learn to navigate the application process, perfect your admission essay, ace the ACT or SAT, seek funding, settle in, choose a major, and much much more! At any of our branches, take a…
Changes in the Social Sciences Room
This picture shows (a) a close-up of the decoration accompanying our super-spooky display with books on ghosts and other seasonally-appropriate phenomena, (b) the look on some of our regular patrons' faces when they walk into the Social Sciences room after some recent changes, or (c) both (a) & (b). (Pssst: the correct answer is (c).…
Working
“It is about a search, too, for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.” STUDS TERKEL - WORKING XI Studs Terkel’s Working was first published in 1974. As…
Naughty or Nice?
Among the (many) great books in the Social Science room is a series on the Seven Deadly Sins from Oxford University Press and The New York Public Library – seven brightly colored, tempting (as befits a sin) books, each by a different author with expertise on the various sins: pride, envy, anger, sloth, greed, gluttony, &…
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