This article by Library Director Amber Mathewson was originally published in the Arizona Daily Star on Sep. 24, 2016.
The Ongoing Fight Against Sickle Cell Disease and Anemia
By PimaLib_JessicaPSeptember 18, 2016
September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month. What do you know about it? Sickle Cell Disease encompasses several disorders in which a person’s red blood cells become hard and sickle-shaped, causing autoimmune issues of varying types. Sickle Cell Anemia is a disease in that collective that has affected millions of individuals—mostly African-Americans and other international members…
Book Review: Curious
By PimaLib_RecommendationsSeptember 15, 2016
Ask questions. Be curious. Then ask more questions.
The Undead Trendsetter
By PimaLib_(Dusen)BerryBloggersSeptember 12, 2016
This book is going to be the most fun you’ve had in a long while. Holly Black’s The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is a dark and twisted throwback to the latest vampire trend, which ridicules the romanticization of the undead in a truly entertaining fashion, while staying creepy and full of tension. If the reputation…
Is Beauty Really In the Eye of the Beholder?
By PimaLib_(Dusen)BerryBloggersSeptember 8, 2016
After Tally’s friends moved to the pretty part of the city, she was heartbroken. After all, she was left alone being Ugly, while her friends were out having the time of their lives. To combat this, she began her quest to find happiness. Along the way, she meets Shay, a fellow Ugly whose favorite pastime…
To Private or Not To Private: Website and Catalog Tip of the Week #15
By PimaLib_AskALibrarianSeptember 7, 2016
Are you interested in using the various tools the library website has for you, but don’t want people all up in your business?
Created to Bring Misery: Evil and the Mask, reviewed
By PimaLib_(Dusen)BerryBloggersSeptember 6, 2016
This review is about a book that I bought, started, and finished on the same day. Evil and the Mask by Fuminori Nakamura is told from the point of view of Fumihiro Kuki, a boy who was told by his father that he was ‘created to be a cancer on the world.’ His father tells him that it…
Not Just an Eight Hour Day
By PimaLib_JessicaPSeptember 1, 2016
Labor Day was established to recognize the struggles working-class people and families have gone through in the history of the United States. Since the Industrial Revolution, workers have had to endure fear, pain, and death to get the rights made available to so many of us today, including paid time off for both illness and…
El Noa Noa Está de Luto
By PimaLib_MaryGSeptember 1, 2016
¿Qué puedo decir? Me encontré a punto de lágrimas cuando lo leí por primera vez en el Feis. Tuvé que leer tres enlaces más antes de creerlo. El divo de Juárez se nos ha ido. Cuando mi vida en español empezó ya más de treinta años atras, él ya estaba establecido como artista de primera…
Why I ♥ Star Trek
By PimaLib_BlogSeptember 1, 2016
Star Trek began its first run on September 8, 1966, but I was too young to appreciate it then. By the time Star Trek went into syndication I was a teenager who took to those stories of exploration and heroism exactly the opposite of the way a Klingon takes to Tribbles. I loved science fiction so…
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