Greg Hill
At the Library
Greg Hill is director of Fairbanks North Star Borough libraries.
Recent Stories
- There's never a book too holy to avoid the almighty typo
- Monday, July 21, 2008
- Many Christian fundamentalists believe any altering of the King James version is blasphemy, but the Bible has been published in many versions.
- Cool Fairbanks makes nice contrast to hot, ratty Texas
- Monday, July 14, 2008
- What I did on my vacation can be divided into rat factories and serenity.
- Keeping up with the times gets harder with every 'Great Technological Handwave'
- Monday, July 7, 2008
- My dad prided himself on keeping his sideburns level with his eyeglasses’ earpieces, even well into the hairy 1970s.
- Pick-up artists have creative techniques, even if some are not so effective
- Monday, June 30, 2008
- Librarians are like birds following plows, for a principal joy of librarying is picking up interesting bits of information revealed by the research of others.
- It doesn't matter if you're a lark or an owl: It's all about the biorhythm
- Monday, June 23, 2008
- Time has swallowed up the honeyed phrases I used to woo and win the current Mrs. Hill some 35 years ago, but I must have been hitting on all cylinders. Our wedded bliss was forecast by an early computer program I came across years later that predicted biorhythms based on birth dates.
- With so much information, it's easy to forget sometimes
- Thursday, June 19, 2008
- Sometimes I feel absolutely lethean, which is sort of like saying I feel like hell.
- Bookshelves are ever-changing fingerprints of the owner’s mind, intelligence
- Monday, June 2, 2008
- Bookshelves often reveal a lot about their owners. So I read Mark Ellingham’s list of top 10 travel books with interest because he’s a veteran Rough Guide author and responsible for the first book in that series.
- Library’s reading program inherits a long heritage of literacy education
- Tuesday, May 27, 2008
- “Catch the Reading Bug,” this year’s edition of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Library’s summer reading program, has been signing up kids for the free, fun-packed activities for a week now, and the library’s swarming with little shavers and shavettes, just the way we like it.
- The aesthetics of a book can be as pleasurable as the text itself
- Monday, May 19, 2008
- John Wooden, the enlightened dean of college basketball coaches, claimed, “A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.” That was the case with Mark Twain, who coached his good friend, U.S. Grant, into writing one of the best autobiographies and best presidential books ever written.
- Even Dame Julie devotees will admit the true sound of music is 'Ut, re, mi'
- Monday, April 28, 2008
- "Mary Poppins" and puberty both arrived for me about the same time, and once I would have devotedly followed the Julie Andrews Obsession Page.