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February 3, 2012
Clearly, Mary Suhm's In No Rush To Find a Library Chief, as She Names Another Interim
Kris SweckardReceived a note earlier in the day that on Tuesday, Mayor Mike, Comerica CEO Ralph Babb, Serita Ann Jakes (Mrs. T.D. to you) and a host of city council members are meeting at the North Oak Cliff Library Branch for "a major announcement" that will involve the "unveiling of [an] e-book ... More >>
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January 20, 2012
One More List of Things to Do In Dallas Reminds: There Are Much Better Things to Do
The librarians have landed, as today's the first day of the estimable American Library Association Midwinter Meeting at the Dallas Convention Center, so you know what that means. Good timing, then, for Reuters' freshly minted "48 hours in Dallas/Fort Worth" itinerary, which is a little better tha ... More >>
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January 11, 2012
Where The DCVB's Sending All Those Librarians Due to Descend Upon Downtown Next Week
The American Library Association Midwinter Meeting's set for January 20-24 at the Dallas Convention Center, so you know what that means: Thousands of librarians, publishers and authors will be checking out the city for a few days. Perhaps the city can find someone amongst the bunch to lead the Da ... More >>
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November 24, 2011
Art Collectors as Artists
The American Library Association Midwinter Meeting's set for January 20-24 at the Dallas Convention Center, so you know what that means: Thousands of librarians, publishers and authors will be checking out the city for a few days. Perhaps the city can find someone amongst the bunch to lead the Da ... More >>
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November 22, 2011
The Hard Sell: Read Why These Three Finalists Believe They Should Lead the Dallas Library
Yesterday we met the three finalists for the Dallas Public Library System director's position, one of whom's the current interim, Corinne Hill. The other two candidates presented to city officials by a DeSoto-based search firm (??) are out-of-towners: Juliet Machie, who actually remains the deput ... More >>
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October 20, 2011
Ingergalactic Invasion
Yesterday we met the three finalists for the Dallas Public Library System director's position, one of whom's the current interim, Corinne Hill. The other two candidates presented to city officials by a DeSoto-based search firm (??) are out-of-towners: Juliet Machie, who actually remains the deput ... More >>
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September 1, 2011
Author's Charts Show Where Dallas Ranks Among Nation's Libraries. (Spoiler: Low.)
Courtesy Friends of the Dallas Public LibraryKaren Blumenthal was once a Wall Street Journal bureau chief and continues to write about the money business for the newspaper; and that's her name on the books Mr. Sam: How Sam Walton Built Walmart and Became America's Richest Man and Bootleg: Murder, ... More >>
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December 10, 2010
Whatever Happened to Dallas' Restaurant Menus?
Researching this week's feature story on the Dallas dining scene gave me the chance to visit the archives of the Dallas Public Library, where I spent hours immersed in dozens of old community cookbooks uncovered by Texas/Dallas History Department manager Carol Roark - who would qualify for a dedicat ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
The Cowboys Should Shelve Marion the Librarian
I'm with ya. Tired of seeing Marion Barber. Watching him hop up and strut 10 yards down field to celebrate a four-yard run. Watching him dive into a pile for a 1/2-yard loss on 3rd-and-1. Watching him bounce inside runs to the outside. The Barbarian long ago deteriorated into the Librarian. ... More >>
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August 10, 2010
Dallas Libraries Forced to Find a New Working Model Amidst Staff Layoffs, Budget Cutbacks
By now you've no doubt read all 624 pages of City Manager Mary Suhm's proposed FY2010-11 budget. Or at least heard: Library branches are losing staffers, which means those who stay will have to do more with less; the downtown outpost's specialty floors will stay dark all but 26 hours a week; and ... More >>
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August 2, 2010
A Week Before Mary Suhm Debuts Budget, an Announcement to "Save Our Dallas Libraries"
In recent weeks we've taken sneak peeks at how pending budget cuts will more than likely gut the library system. But till Monday rolls 'round and Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm debuts her proposed FY2010-11 budget, we won't know for sure how deep those wounds will run. Nevertheless, Friends of the ... More >>
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July 15, 2010
Book 'Em
In recent weeks we've taken sneak peeks at how pending budget cuts will more than likely gut the library system. But till Monday rolls 'round and Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm debuts her proposed FY2010-11 budget, we won't know for sure how deep those wounds will run. Nevertheless, Friends of the ... More >>
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July 9, 2010
Suhm Doesn't Know What's Gotta Go Yet. She Only Knows This Budget Process Is "Painful."
Sam MertenCity Manager Mary Suhm"Painful. Painful, painful, painful, painful."That's what City Manager Mary Suhm said when I asked her earlier today how it's going as she works to gut the budget before council's return next month."Painful."As I noted below, I wanted to talk to Suhm about some e-m ... More >>
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July 6, 2010
Is Bookmarks at NorthPark Center the Future of Libraries Nationwide?
A couple of weeks back we took at look at City Manager Mary Suhm's proposed cuts for the Dallas Public Library system -- fewer workers at the branches, shorter hours downtown and more, meaning, of course, less. But libraries are in trouble nationwide, besieged by budget cuts and encroaching techn ... More >>
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June 30, 2010
There Are a Number of Familiar Places on Preservation Dallas's Most Endangered List
Justin Terveen508 Park Avenue, currently the subject of litigation as its owners try to tear down the buildingAt this very moment Preservation Dallas executive director Katherine Seale is at the Women's Museum in Fair Park formally presenting its annual list of properties, neighborhoods and "hist ... More >>
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June 22, 2010
At Noon Tomorrow, The "Poor People's March" On City Hall to Protest Expected Budget Cuts
Mark GrahamJohn FullinwiderA "poor people's march" at Dallas City Halll at noon tomorrow will kick off a campaign of protests aimed primarily at Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert. Veteran community activists blame Leppert's political ambitions for what they insist is a one-sided assault on city programs f ... More >>
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May 1, 2010
Dallas Public Libraries Finally Getting Into the Digital Download Bidness This Month
So says a memo from Assistant City Manager Forest Tucker to the city council sent last night: On May 11, the Dallas Public Library will go into OverDrive, the Cleveland, Ohio-based company that builds Web sites for libraries and allows users 24/7 download access to, so far, about 100,000 audioboo ... More >>
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March 25, 2010
The Weavers
So says a memo from Assistant City Manager Forest Tucker to the city council sent last night: On May 11, the Dallas Public Library will go into OverDrive, the Cleveland, Ohio-based company that builds Web sites for libraries and allows users 24/7 download access to, so far, about 100,000 audioboo ... More >>
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January 28, 2010
Take A Look, It's In A Book
So says a memo from Assistant City Manager Forest Tucker to the city council sent last night: On May 11, the Dallas Public Library will go into OverDrive, the Cleveland, Ohio-based company that builds Web sites for libraries and allows users 24/7 download access to, so far, about 100,000 audioboo ... More >>
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September 3, 2009
This Week's Local History Lesson: Quentin Corley, Dallas Judge and Prosthetics Pioneer
Library of Congress via FlickrThe late Dallas County Judge Quentin Corley, pictured here in 1916It's been too long since we've published a photo from The Wayback Machine, so much thanks to the Friend of Unfair Park who was messing around on Flickr and found this gem amongst the treasures kept by ... More >>
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August 20, 2009
Library Loveline
Library of Congress via FlickrThe late Dallas County Judge Quentin Corley, pictured here in 1916It's been too long since we've published a photo from The Wayback Machine, so much thanks to the Friend of Unfair Park who was messing around on Flickr and found this gem amongst the treasures kept by ... More >>
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July 9, 2009
"BUSHWHACKED"
Library of Congress via FlickrThe late Dallas County Judge Quentin Corley, pictured here in 1916It's been too long since we've published a photo from The Wayback Machine, so much thanks to the Friend of Unfair Park who was messing around on Flickr and found this gem amongst the treasures kept by ... More >>
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June 17, 2009
The Dallas Library's Archives Division is Trying to Make It Easier to Find the Past
Scott DornIf you know where to look for it downtown, you can still find the old Sanger-Harris sign.Late yesterday afternoon, I sent Steve Gaither, the special collections librarian in the Texas/Dallas History & Archives Division downtown, a picture whose origins were mysterious; I thought he cou ... More >>
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May 22, 2009
Library Board Created Politically Appointed Foundation, Only to "Table it For a Year"
We finally spoke with Municipal Library Board chair Suzanne Charriere concerning the Dallas Public Library Foundation, which was voted into existence earlier this week. Turns out, it won't do much of anything until a year from now. If then."Rather than try to do something right now with the economy ... More >>
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March 5, 2009
Chua On This
We finally spoke with Municipal Library Board chair Suzanne Charriere concerning the Dallas Public Library Foundation, which was voted into existence earlier this week. Turns out, it won't do much of anything until a year from now. If then."Rather than try to do something right now with the economy ... More >>
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July 15, 2008
Henry Waxman's Starting to Smell Something Rotten at Bush Library
We finally spoke with Municipal Library Board chair Suzanne Charriere concerning the Dallas Public Library Foundation, which was voted into existence earlier this week. Turns out, it won't do much of anything until a year from now. If then."Rather than try to do something right now with the economy ... More >>
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May 22, 2008
Yet Again, a Last-Ditch Effort to Keep Bush Think Tank Off SMU Campus
We finally spoke with Municipal Library Board chair Suzanne Charriere concerning the Dallas Public Library Foundation, which was voted into existence earlier this week. Turns out, it won't do much of anything until a year from now. If then."Rather than try to do something right now with the economy ... More >>
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March 26, 2008
Waytago, Lew Calver! Yours is the Best Fake Bush Library in the World!
We finally spoke with Municipal Library Board chair Suzanne Charriere concerning the Dallas Public Library Foundation, which was voted into existence earlier this week. Turns out, it won't do much of anything until a year from now. If then."Rather than try to do something right now with the economy ... More >>
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March 6, 2008
Vote for Bush's "Hole in the Ground"
We finally spoke with Municipal Library Board chair Suzanne Charriere concerning the Dallas Public Library Foundation, which was voted into existence earlier this week. Turns out, it won't do much of anything until a year from now. If then."Rather than try to do something right now with the economy ... More >>
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February 29, 2008
Welcome to George Bush's ... Fun Ranch?
We finally spoke with Municipal Library Board chair Suzanne Charriere concerning the Dallas Public Library Foundation, which was voted into existence earlier this week. Turns out, it won't do much of anything until a year from now. If then."Rather than try to do something right now with the economy ... More >>
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October 4, 2007
Orson's Opus
We finally spoke with Municipal Library Board chair Suzanne Charriere concerning the Dallas Public Library Foundation, which was voted into existence earlier this week. Turns out, it won't do much of anything until a year from now. If then."Rather than try to do something right now with the economy ... More >>
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October 4, 2007
Mid-Century Song
We finally spoke with Municipal Library Board chair Suzanne Charriere concerning the Dallas Public Library Foundation, which was voted into existence earlier this week. Turns out, it won't do much of anything until a year from now. If then."Rather than try to do something right now with the economy ... More >>
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April 9, 2007
The Karl Rove Presidential Library?
We finally spoke with Municipal Library Board chair Suzanne Charriere concerning the Dallas Public Library Foundation, which was voted into existence earlier this week. Turns out, it won't do much of anything until a year from now. If then."Rather than try to do something right now with the economy ... More >>
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April 5, 2007
All That Jazz
Tour music history at the library
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March 29, 2007
Mystery Thyme
Tour music history at the library
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January 19, 2007
You Can't Blame the Youths
Tour music history at the library
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December 21, 2006
SMU Wanna Bush Library? SMU're in Luck.
Tour music history at the library
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May 11, 2006
Artistic Algebra
Tour music history at the library
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April 20, 2006
Audio Adrenaline
Hear the magic of sci-fi with TRTC
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April 13, 2006
Hoochies on Hoods
Hear the tale of a low ridin' queen
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March 23, 2006
Bush's Books
How the library could affect the ledger
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March 23, 2006
Texas Crude | Indigo Girl
How the library could affect the ledger
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May 5, 2005
Get the Funk Out
Don't get funky if you want to go to Houston's library
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January 15, 2004
Yu Goh, Kid
It�s a duel of trading-card whizzes in Fort Worth
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December 25, 2003
Savage Breasts
Do the homeless hate classical music?
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May 22, 2003
Hello, Goodbye
John Graves said farewell to the Brazos and howdy to a career
Best of Dallas
September 26, 2002
Best Place to Learn About Black Dallas History
African American Museum
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April 11, 2002
Moore to Love and Hate
Michael Moore introduces a few Stupid White Men
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March 7, 2002
For the Masses
Dallas shows its Percent for Art
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September 20, 2001
Out on a Limb
Pierre Bradshaw, bird rehabilitator with On the Wing Again
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