Library Newsletter 08/2024

News of events in the period August 2024

Library Topics: Librarian in Popular Culture

Through clips from famous movies and series (A Wonderful Life, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Ghostbusters, Seinfeld...) you can see what the image of a librarian looked like in popular culture.

She is a timid and shy spinster with a bun and glasses, in modest and neglected clothes, although perhaps smart. She calls for order and keeps saying shh

 

       · News: On the occasion of the exhibition of Aleksandar Srnec

On the occasion of the exhibition and the 100th birthday of Aleksandar Srnec, we present a catalogue from 1971 with Srnec's serigraphy included.

 

       · Recommendation for summer reading:

In 2001, Carlos Ruiz Zafón became a literary event in Spain and the world with the release of the first book in the tetralogy "The Cemetery of Forgotten Books". The last book was published in 2017, and the author himself passed away in 2020. The novels can also be read separately, but we recommend that you enter this fantastic world with "The Shadow of the Wind". The plot is set within the framework of the author's native Barcelona, during Franco's regime, moving through different genres, and at the same time it is a family saga, a gothic novel, a fantasy, a romance, a police investigation, magical realism, a thriller... It is imbued with a multitude of literary references, develops through several intertwined plots, is carried by striking characters and is very skillfully and beautifully narrated; in fact, it is a kind of dedication to books, storytelling and reading. You can see more on the publisher's website: https://fraktura.hr/sjena-vjetra-4.html