Comments on: We Don’t Need No Library Fiction? https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2013/02/we-dont-need-no-library-fiction.html What's happening to your library? Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:54:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Gareth Osler (@LibraryWeb) https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2013/02/we-dont-need-no-library-fiction.html#comment-5682 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:54:10 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=4150#comment-5682 Links to last comment cut’n’pasteable sizes (in order of appearance):

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]]> By: Gareth Osler (@LibraryWeb) https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2013/02/we-dont-need-no-library-fiction.html#comment-5681 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:46:05 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=4150#comment-5681 Re. Herald Scotland article, “writer questions the need for fiction books in libraries,” we learn (as teachers will quite happily enumerate for you) in many ways – stories are much more important to our culture than we mostly imagine.

Is everyone sitting comfortably \: Then we’ll begin, once upon a time… https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind1004&L=lis-pub-libs&P=R4116&1=lis-pub-libs&9=A&I=-3&J=on&d=No+Match%3BMatch%3BMatches&z=4

The Storytelling Animal: The Science of How We Came to Live and Breathe Stories
by Maria Popova
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/05/03/the-storytelling-animal-jonathan-gottschall/

Lots more here 🙂 http://previous.delicious.com/larkhill/Stories

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