LaRue's Views

January 12, 2012 - read, dammit Dear Reader, Thank you for reading this column. I have been writing it, every week, since April 11, 199...

Back around 2002-2003, I believe, the Douglas County School District conducted a survey of its student body. The results were disturbing. Ma...

Recently I had the pleasure of meeting one Jeannette Albersheim. Mrs. Albersheim is in her 90s, and has many interesting stories to tell. ...

For the past several years, I've been reprinting what I've come to think of as "my holiday column" -- a tradition. I hope ...

When I was first starting out in my career, I had the pleasure of meeting the outstanding State Librarian of Illinois. Her name was Bridget ...

December 8, 2011 - knowledge has a price I've been presenting this week to librarians, Friends organizations, and board members in Nor...

Every now and then, I run across something that so directly contradicts what I thought I knew that it stops me in my tracks. I believed, l...