I love history. And I love cake. So Anne Byrn’s new baking book , American Cake spoke to me. Byrn provides a timeline of American history through recipes, from gingerbread and sugar cakes of colonial times to more recent favorites like tres...
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Tuesday, Sep 20, 2016
Checking out, downloading, and listening to an audiobook on your device from the Iowa City Public Library is easy as pie. Until it isn’t. Every once in a while I encounter skips as if I’m listening to a scratched CD. Or I receive the error...
Wednesday, Aug 17, 2016
The Iowa City Public Library’s online catalog and digital collections are now available, which means you can place that hold , check out a digital magazine , and download your eAudiobook . We thank you for your patience and sincerely apologize...
Thursday, Jul 21, 2016
On KCJJ with Captain Steve and Tommy Lang this morning, Melody and I had a great time discussing what ICPL staff are reading this summer. Here are some of the books we talked about if you are looking for your next read: My favorite book of the...
Wednesday, Jun 1, 2016
If you’re like me, you’re waiting patiently for PBS to air another season of The Great British Baking Show (or The Great British Bake Off as it is known across the pond). And if you’re like me, you’re baking your way through the wait. The...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
What was Iowa City like 170 years ago? To get an idea, we can turn to John B. Newhall, author of A Glimpse of Iowa in 1846 *. In this work, he states that one couldn’t help but think of Saint-Omer in France and he “speaks as an eye-witness.”...
Saturday, May 21, 2016
This month marks the 75th anniversary of the release of Citizen Kane . Well, if you want to get very specific about it, it's the anniversary of the film's premiere at the Palace Theatre in New York. It was widely released that September. Citizen...
Monday, May 9, 2016
Over the weekend, we were reunited with a book from long ago, Aline Kilmer's Vigils (1921). We weren’t looking for it; the book was legitimately withdrawn from the collection. But, perhaps the book was seeking a return to us. Of course, I was...
Monday, May 2, 2016
Portrait of Chauncey Swan from Weber's Historical Stories About Iowa City Chauncey Swan is not, as I thought when I moved here, a species of water fowl. (I know, I know, but I’m not an ornithologist.) He is also not two people; there is no Mr....
Thursday, Apr 7, 2016
It is finally spring and time to throw open the sashes and take in the fresh air. But it is also time for spring cleaning, to dust the baseboards, turn the mattresses, and wash those windows. Why not change things up a bit? Perhaps it is time to...
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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.