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Hope for school libraries (in Ontario, anyway)

Heather Reisman can take a bow today. The Indigo CEO appears to have shamed Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty into promising a major funding boost for the province's cash-starved school library system. As The Globe and ... Read More »

September 20, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Rowling comes to Canada

By Nathan Whitlock

Toronto will just have time to catch its starstruck breath after film festival appearances by the likes of Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and George Clooney before a superstar of another order arrives. J.K. Rowling will ... Read More »

September 17, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Harper's gift to Australia

By Nathan Whitlock

Prime Minister Stephen Harper had a rare and very apt gift to give to the Australian people yesterday during his official visit Down Under, The Globe and Mail reports. This spring, a rare books specialist ... Read More »

September 12, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Robert J. Sawyer speaks out against library cuts

By Leigh Anne Williams

Sci-fi author Robert J. Sawyer has sent an open letter to Toronto mayor David Miller to protest plans to cut service at the Toronto Public Library. In a passionate and compelling argument, Sawyer says, in ... Read More »

August 2, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Hard times at the Toronto Public Library

By Leigh Anne Williams

Bad news for Toronto readers: faced with the city's budget shortfall, the Toronto Public Library board has agreed to more than a million dollars in spending cuts this year. As the Toronto Star reports, that ... Read More »

July 26, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Coming up in the May Q&Q

By Leigh Anne Williams

The May 2007 issue of Quill & Quire is on its way to stores and subscribers now. It features a Science Fiction Spotlight, which includes a cover profile of star SF novelist Robert J. Sawyer, ... Read More »

April 11, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

New look for library logo

By Alison Jones

Design Edge Canada reports that with the opening of a new main branch building, the North Vancouver District Public Library has revealed a new logo. The blue logo is meant to represent the library's various ... Read More »

April 4, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Hemingway's letters to Dietrich unsealed

By Nathan Whitlock

Thirty letters that Ernest Hemingway wrote to Marlene Dietrich between 1949 and 1959 will be revealed to the public on Monday, The New York Times reports. Donated by Dietrich's daughter, Maria Riva, the letters, which ... Read More »

March 30, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Previously used

By Alison Jones

In a post for Entertainment Weekly's website, books editor Tina Jordan discusses the generally poor quality of unofficial literary sequels, a topic that Quillblog has discussed as well (click here for the link). But what ... Read More »

March 13, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Free to read, you and me (2007)*

By Leigh Anne Williams

There are still a couple of days left in Freedom to Read Week, which we should probably mark now more than ever, what with an Ontario school getting worked up about Snow Falling on Cedars ... Read More »

March 1, 2007 | Filed under: Events

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