Libraries and Librarians

Our longtime book reviewer offers several page-turning tips for the beach, the lake, the sofa, the hammock, the cool, well-lit spot by the air-conditioner, etc.

Our guest is the creator of "Gender Queer: A Memoir," which was the most challenged book of 2021-22, according to the American Library Association.

How will our evermore digital civilization persist beyond our lifetime? Audio- and videotapes demagnetize; CDs delaminate; Internet art works often link to websites that no longer exist; etc. This book argues that the vulnerability of new media in the art world points to a larger crisis for our social memory.

Museum Confidential: Season 7, Episode 17.

"Printmaking: Art and the Written Word" reveals several centuries of European history; the materials in this exhibit reflect spirituality, culture, and academic thought from the Reformation up to the time of the Italian courts.

Museum Confidential: Season 7, Episode 16.

Sáenz will appear at a free-to-the-public reading/signing on Saturday the 1st, at the TCCL's Central Library in downtown Tulsa; at this event, he'll receive the first-ever Hummingbird Award in Literary Arts.

April is sexual assault awareness month, but an Oklahoma library has cancelled a display and programming on the subject due to a ban.

"The Outsiders" -- both the well-known coming-of-age novel by S.E. Hinton and the likewise-titled 1983 film by Francis Ford Coppola -- certainly looms…

Our old friend and colleague Nancy Pearl joins us on StudioTulsa to offer some can't-miss summer reading suggestions: fiction, non-fiction, poetry,…