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The Liberating Power of Yo-Yos

By Robin Bates | Published: November 21, 2012

In this Scott Bates fantasy, a renegade scholar breaks library protocol with a bright red yo-yo.

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Fight the Power, Check Out a Book

By Robin Bates | Published: June 30, 2011

Alberto Manguel’s The Library at Night is an unusual combination of fact and reflection, probing the nature and meaning of libraries.

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Our Inner Library: A Quiz

By Robin Bates | Published: January 5, 2011

Last semester my Ljubljana friend Jason Blake sent me a passage from Alberto Manguel’s novel The Library at Night. A colleague of Jason’s was trying to identify all the literary allusions and was stuck on “first centenary encounter with ice.” It took me a while but I think I was able to identify it correctly, […]

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