From the Morrill Memorial Library: A Bite of the Big Apple

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

A Bite of the Big Apple

Read Charlotte Canelli's entire column in the Norwood Transcript and Bulletin this week.

This week we are spending the school vacation in New York and have brought along another 11 year old, a classmate of Colin’s. These sixth-grade boys aren’t going to be impressed with any high society tearoom, any amount of high-stepping dancers or any well-pressed and spotless cloth napkin at the Plaza Hotel. More up their alley are one of the biggest ToysRUs in the USA, the NYC Hard Rock Café and the impressive Museum of Natural History. With four days in New York I needed to find more suggestions geared to pre-teen boys.

Who We Are

Since 2009, Library Director, Charlotte Canelli and over 30 other librarians and library staff at the Morrill Memorial Library in Norwood, Massachusetts have been writing columns of approximately 1,000 words each week. These columns are published in the Norwood Transcript & Bulletin in print and online on Wickedlocal.com. Over 535 columns are archived here on this blog.

In May 2015, and again in May 2017, the Library's submission to the Massachusetts Library Association Public Relations Awards won first place in the News category. A representative 24 columns were submitted for 2013-2014 and again in 2015-2016 for this biennial award. In May 2019, the Library's submission to the MLA Public Relations Awards won an Honorable Mention in the Print category.

Library Director Charlotte Canelli began writing a weekly column for the Daily News Transcript (now the Norwood Transcript and Bulletin) in February 2009. Other Morrill Memorial Library librarians in Norwood, Massachusetts soon joined her - writing guest columns at least once a year or once every eight weeks. The columns have been published weekly in Norwood Transcript and Bulletin and online at WickedLocal.com/Norwood for ten years. Spiral bound books of our columns are cataloged in the Morrill Memorial Library - one for each year. Over 520 columns are archived here. Visit the library website, www.norwoodlibrary.org for more information about the Morrill Memorial Library.