by AnnDee Peterson | Feb 9, 2024 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian In 2023, Pittsburg Public Library saw 68,535 people walk through its doors. Even though some were repeat visitors, that’s a lot of foot traffic and indicates a continued interest in our institution. Many think...
by AnnDee Peterson | Feb 2, 2024 | Featured, From the Stacks
By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian Shown is the edition of Crockett Johnson’s Groundhog Day classic that was my very first book purchase. Sometime in the early to mid-1960’s, this very library held a book sale of discarded books and I was given money to buy a...
by AnnDee Peterson | Jan 26, 2024 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian Kansas literature often gets a bad rap. No doubt people who call us “flyover country” don’t even think there is such a thing. About the only book related to our state that comes to mind for most people is “The...
by AnnDee Peterson | Jan 19, 2024 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian It’s been a bit of a rough week for some of us. Whether it be dead car batteries, frozen pipes, conked out furnaces, or malfunctioning garage doors—the sub-zero temperatures have not been kind to many folks....
by AnnDee Peterson | Jan 12, 2024 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian I will be forever grateful to the patron who, back in 2015, told me I needed to read Daniel James Brown’s “The Boys in the Boat” (thank you Suzy!). I admit to being very skeptical—why would someone living in...
by AnnDee Peterson | Jan 5, 2024 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian It’s Day 5 and I’ve finished my first book of the year. I hope it doesn’t portend the rest of my reading for 2024. Which is my way of saying that although I was excited to check out the book, it did not live...
