Almost eighty years ago, Margaret Scoggin, a librarian at the New York Public Library, made an odd choice. As one of the founders of the NYPL children’s branch in the early 1940s, Scoggin had been contributing a column to Library Journal called “Books for Older Boys and Girls.” In 1944, she inexplicably decided that her articles should instead be published under the title “Books for Young Adults.”
QUARATIELLO: My Orwellian Public Library – Struggling with Totalitarian Library Trustees
In chapter five of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the head pig, Napoleon, announces the end of the weekly meetings of the animals: “They were unnecessary, he said, and wasted time. In the future, all questions relating to the working of the farm would be settled by a special committee of pigs, presided over by himself. These … Read more
