Agora is a movie directed by Alejandro Amenábar about Hypatia, (who may or may not have been) a librarian in the Great Library of Alexandria. Judging by the final few seconds of the trailer, and what we know about her life, I’m guessing this film does not have a happy ending…
Donkey Mobile Library
Today the BBC had a wonderful story about the Donkey Mobile Library in Ethiopia. The library is a project of Ethiopia Reads.
The BBC article fails to mention the founder of Ethiopia Reads, Yohannes Gebregeorgis, who fled the his native country in 1981 for the United States and became a children’s librarian. He won the CNN heroes award in 2008.
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