One of our passions at the Iowa City Public Library is to get books into your hands. During the last six weeks, we were only able to do this digitally through our collection of eBooks, audiobooks, magazines, and streaming videos. While we look forward to a time when we can provide full access to the rest of our collection, we are happy to see unprecedented use of our digital collections. We’ve seen steady growth year-to-year since establishing the collections, but we have never witnessed such a sharp spike in use like this.
Author Archive for Anne M
Friday, Apr 10, 2020
Get access to The New York Times website for free with your ICPL card.
Friday, May 18, 2018
While researching the horse racing scene of early Iowa City, my eye moved from the first county fairgrounds to something in the Iowa River—that something being a steamboat. Steamboats in Iowa City in 1868? Didn’t the railroad, reaching Iowa...
Monday, Feb 5, 2018
Sometimes some small details can make a big difference in how you experience something, especially if it saves time. Here are some small things you can do in Libby , our app for OverDrive eBooks and audiobooks that make reading (or listening) even...
Tuesday, Nov 21, 2017
Always wanted to keep track of what you borrowed from the Iowa City Public Library? There are a couple of ways to do this, depending on what you are borrowing.
Friday, Nov 17, 2017
Every morning I drive to the end of Summit to turn onto Kirkwood Avenue and I look at a brick and iron fence with the word “Ardenia.” And every morning, I ask myself, “Why Ardenia?” After several months driving this route, I finally looked...
Saturday, Sep 16, 2017
New York City. It’s a place where our heroes and heroines of literature go to reinvent themselves. They strike it rich or find themselves desolate. They seek fame or become part of the multitudes of anonymous men in gray flannel suits. New York...
Tuesday, Sep 5, 2017
In honor of September, National Library Card Sign-Up Month, here are five ways you can make the most of your ICPL Library card, right at home: Listen up —You’re busy. Whether it’s work or school, caring for others or commuting, chores or...
Tuesday, Jul 25, 2017
On February 28th, 1991, in the "B" section of the Iowa City Press-Citizen, there is this small article: IC Press-Citizen, 2/28/91 Yes, Iowa City held a protest...well, more like a letter-writing party at The Mill to push ABC to change...
Tuesday, Jun 20, 2017
Lindsey Lee Johnson’s The Most Dangerous Place on Earth is everything you want a summer read to be. It’s fast-paced, full of drama, and you can’t put the book down. The novel weaves the story of a group of wealthy high school juniors in a San...
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About Anne M
Anne Mangano has worked for the Iowa City Public Library since 2007, serving as the Collection Services Coordinator since 2013. In this position, she oversees the Library’s collection, including the selection, cataloging, processing, repair, and removal of materials. She also plans and directs ICPL’s digital collections, including the Local Music Project and the Digital History Project. Anne holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and a Masters in Library and Information Science from Simmons University. She lives in Iowa City with her husband and two children.