Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Meet-Stephanie-Bange.mp3 Author Susan Raab Air Date 5/22/2007 Stephanie Bange Transcript At the American Library Association’s most recent conference, our correspondent Susan Raab spoke with Stephanie Bange, who is chairing the ALA’s new initiative, “Kids @ Libraries.” We join their conversation with Susan’s question about one of the ways that library […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Literature-for-Children-Digital-Library.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/24/2005 The Literature for Children Digital Library Transcript Would you like to read a version of Little Red Riding Hood published in 1880? Or perhaps The Union ABC, an alphabet book published in 1865 in honor of the Union victory in the Civil War, is […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Anne-Carroll-Moore.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/20/2004 Anne Carroll Moore Transcript During National Library Week I would like to pay homage to Anne Carroll Moore, the librarian largely responsible for something we take for granted today: free access to books in public libraries for children, regardless of age, reading ability, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Agusta-Baker-Storyteller-Supreme.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/23/2004 Augusta Baker Transcript Augusta Baker was an exceptional librarian who made many contributions to the improvement of children’s services during a stellar career that spanned five decades. She began working in 1937 as assistant children’s librarian at the 135th Street Branch of the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Childrens-Reading-Rooms-in-Public-Libraries.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 8/14/2003 Children in the Library Transcript It’s difficult today to imagine a public library without a lively section specifically for children, but in the 1880’s, libraries were only for adult or young adult readers, and in general, no one younger than 12 or 14 […]
It’s National Book Month, and Barry Stewart Mann has a story about books, and words, and the lessons they can teach us.
As curator of a collection of late 18th, 19th, and early 20th century children’s books, curator Rita Smith comes across many things children have tucked into the pages of a book and forgotten about. Today, she’s here to discuss some of her findings.
As part of our ongoing exploration of how children’s books matter throughout our lives, today we’re speaking with Brother Blue, the internationally known storyteller, from his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
One of the fascinating opportunities of working with a historical children’s literature collection is reading the inscriptions that people wrote in the books. Rita Smith, curator of the Baldwin Library, is here to discuss some of the inscriptions she has discovered in the collection.
