From the Morrill Memorial Library: Stories For All Ages

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Stories For All Ages

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

The reality is that I live in a world of book lust, one in which I get to read a very small percentage of what I read about or purchase for the library.

I confess that I read fiction only when it captures my interest or imagination. I’ve read, of course, quite a bit of classical and contemporary fiction over the last half century. However, I am often jealous of my colleagues, family and friends who have a much longer fiction-reading list that I have.

My personal passion for reading lies in non-fiction. When I’m asked for my favorite book or a recommendation I always think first of titles within the non-fiction genres, whether they are serious historical or scientific accounts or quirky travelogues or memoirs.

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.