A special book drive for The Book End starts soon at many local MidWestOne banks The September used book collection is the fifth annual hosted by the bank to benefit The Book End used bookstore in the Iowa City Public Library. The drive will run from September 1 through September 30, 2010. Each of the [...]

Visit with some of your favorite authors and discover new ones at this year’s Iowa Author Fair. The Iowa Center for the Book, Iowa Library Association (ILA), Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature, Coralville Public Library, and Iowa City Public Library are partnering to bring “The Write Stuff ” from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, [...]

In 1995, the Iowa City Public Library established the annual Carol Spaziani Intellectual Freedom Festival to honor Carol’s 26-year career at ICPL and life-long commitment to the freedom of ideas. Spaziani (shown left) believes that the public library’s role is to be a resource and a forum for an individual’s pursuit and expression of diverse [...]

… “This Library … belongs to no person nor class of persons. It is to be under the control of no particular race nor creed. Its doors are to be ever open to the workman in overalls with the dinner bucket upon his arm, as well as the rich or well-to-do … Every person in [...]

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