You Too Can How-To!

I came to Lawrence in the fall of 1995 as a freshman at KU, and fell in love with this town right away: the lovely old neighborhoods, the vibrant downtown, and especially the people: creative, community-minded, and unafraid of being their authentic selves. And so the opportunity every year to pull together the How-To Festival…
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How-To in 2022!

Well, folks! Another item to file under “My, how time flies!”: this will be the fifth year for the How-To Festival. Every year has seen a different lineup of presenters (and, due to the circumstances, a variety of formats!), but what has remained continuous is the ample bounty of creativity and resourcefulness our friends and…
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How-To Tuesdays!

It’s June again--can you believe it?--which means it’s time for some How-To here at LPL. In years past, this has meant a festival (whether IRL or virtual) packed with local experts sharing their skills and knowledge. This year, we’re savoring small batches of our community’s know-how throughout the month of June. Join us for How-To…
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A Life, Secondhand

And now when I go by a secondhand store I imagine all the lives behind every object: it makes my head spin… -Clara Beaudoux This is how big of a nerd I am: when I first heard about Twitter and its 140-character limit, I imagined that it would basically be a haiku-fest: scads of precision-crafted…
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Techno-Cookery

I don’t mind saying: the Dewey Decimal System has some peculiarities. That’s probably (well, it IS) due to the fact that the system is basically a physical incarnation of Melvil Dewey’s mental map of knowledge. Given that Mr. Dewey, while smart and organized, was a) a Victorian and b) by modern standards, Not A Great…
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The Four Doorways

Recently, intrepid Book Squaders Polli and Kate sprinkled some of their reader’s advisory (that’s librarian-speak for recommending stuff you might like to read) mojo on others of us here at LPL by teaching us about uber-librarian Nancy Pearl’s Four Doorways: story, character, setting, and language. Basically, part of identifying what you might love next is…
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