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Project Gutenberg to the puzzle rescue!

A roundup of all the books I’ve recommended on the blog so far with a few new ones at the end!

Librarians love us, and LibGuides are one of the ways they show it.

It’s been a little while since I put a zine together!

I was and will be!

Here we are at the end of June, but there’s still plenty of time for summer reading!

Creed and Company Limited.

After I left my work as a professor and academic, I went to library school and worked as an archivist.

A roundup of resources to help creators and users of media of all sorts navigate licensing and copyright issues.

The Stillwater River at dusk © 2026 by Ann Cooper Moving to Maine demanded all my energy earlier this month, so I’m late in posting this exploration of artists’ books.

Procrastination isn’t always bad, but sometimes those of us who are newer writers or who struggle with confidence feel like we can’t move forward with our writing projects until we’ve thoroughly studied a wide range of writing advice.

In May, I’ll be leaving North Carolina for my new home in Maine.

What if being bad at your hobbies is a good thing?

Image © 2026 by Ann Cooper Series Posts Making the Most of Writing Advice: Tune Your Perspective Making the Most of Writing Advice: Goal Setting, Ambition, and Validation Making the Most of Writing Advice: Paying Attention to Procrastination

For this second post in the “Making the Most of Writing Advice” series, I wanted to think about permission, validation, and setting goals.

It’s time for another zine and I’ve been drawing, so here it is: another zine collecting of some of my daily emotional self-portraits with a couple of surprises (doodles that aren’t self-portraits).

The Series When I started drafting this series, I thought it would be one post, but it turns out that I have more than one post’s worth of things I’d like to share!

I love cutaway drawings, especially of buildings.

Hermann Rorschach, Rorschach Inkblot Test, Bern Switzerland, 1942, Science Museum Group Collection, Open: Science Museum Group, Artstor, https://jstor.org/stable/community.38358143.

I can't draw—I have no training and less talent—but I made a minizine of some of my drawings, anyway!

Duke Gardens had their fancy chrysanthemums out in October--here are some of my favorite photos from that visit.