Summer Library Series

THE SUMMER LIBRARY SERIES

A somewhat annual series in which writers reflect on their childhood experiences in the library.

Children reading in New York Public Library, circa 1920

Summer 2018 Series

LIBRARY AUTHORS

• How Many Libraries Can One Childhood Hold? by Azaria Podplesky
• Neighborhood Libraries by Cetywa Powell
• Two Libraries by Lane Falcon
• Library Time by Rachel King
• The Bartholomew County Library by Melissa Stephenson
• The Missing Library by Rajia Hassib
• That Texas Library by Julia Drescher
• A Chinese Laborer, a Mural, Carlos Santana, and My Hometown Library
  by Donna Miscolta
• My First Library by Richard Paolinelli

Summer 2015 Series 

LIBRARY AUTHORS

• Scofflaw by Simone Zeltich
• On Libraries and Vans: A Western Washington Pastoral by Maya Jewell Zeller
• Cigarettes and Astrid Lindgren by Regi Claire
• This Library Was Made for You and Me by Liz Rognes
• This Book: One Week by Emilia Rodriguez
• My Dear Library by Ben Cartwright
• Walking to East Branch by Carol Pringle

Summer 2014 Series 

LIBRARY AUTHORS

• Two Bookcases by Donald Anderson
• Long Live Literacy! by D.S. Sense
• Card Catalog by Stephanie Noll
• Four Libraries by Michael Martone
• Some Kind of Reader by Tim Greenup

Summer 2012 Series

LIBRARY AUTHORS

• In a Town With No Bookstores by Owen Egerton
• Buildings and the Love of Books by Matthew C. Brennan
• A Kind of Beacon by Jack Kaulfus
• The Library That Delivered by Dan Powell
• A Truant in the Stacks by Laura Ellen Scott
• The Mother of Libraries by TJ Beitelman
• My Regrettable Non-Relationship with Libraries by John Kenny
• All Sorts of Freedom by Juliet E. McKenna
• Library as Locus by Heather Anastasiu
• From Branch to Main and Back by David Hadbawnik
• On Raising an Ontological Architect by kathryn l. pringle
• Then Steinbeck Killed My Pony by Stacey Swann
• Library Days by Stona Fitch

Special thanks to the photographers who gave permission to What She Might Think expressly for this project, and to those photographers who provided their photographs for use under Creative Commons Licensing.

Many of the photographers are librarians themselves.

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