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Manga brings cool kids to the library and more library updates

Katie’s parents never told her “no” when she asked for the book, which was the beginning of most of her problems. She has an MLIS from the University of Illinois and works full-time as a circulation and reference manager at the University of Illinois. She has a deep love of all things disturbing, twisted, and

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Rare books on sex in the library founded by Franklin are spicy things

There’s a lot of history to celebrate on America’s 250th birthday Library Company of PhiladelphiaIt is the oldest public rare book collection in the United States, founded in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin. The nation’s forty-five-year-old, historic nonprofit once extended borrowing privileges to delegates to the First and Second Continental Congresses and the Constitutional Convention. Before

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