Tag: business

• Barnes & Noble likes books again

  Ted Gioia on the remarkable rebound of Barnes & Noble: [CEO James Daunt] used the pandemic as an opportunity to “weed out the rubbish” in the stores. He asked employees in the outlets to take every book off the shelf, and re-evaluate whether it should stay. Every section of the store needed to be refreshed […]

  January 26, 2023

  Books

  Barnes and Noble, books, business, movies, music

• Refer Madness: RefUSA! RefUSA!

  Refer Madness spotlights strange, intriguing, or otherwise noteworthy questions I encounter at the library reference desk. “It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.” Though John Adams wrote this passage about Independence Day, I’d say […]

  July 5, 2015

  Libraries, Refer Madness

  business, Chicago, librarians, libraries, North Shore, Reference, ReferenceUSA