Gregory Holch

I guess it's not news, but I saw this scene in New York City this afternoon, and I had to stop and take a photo. For those of you who don't know what this is, it's a Smith Corona manual typewriter. I like the fact that it's labeled "Galaxie" along the top.

Is this scene a comment on technology that has become obsolete? Is it telling us something about the value of writing Read More 

The most recent KidLit Drink Night took place last night at Sweet & Vicious, at the corner of Spring & Elizabeth Streets in the Soho section of New York City. KidLit Drink Night is a chance for children’s book editors, librarians, and authors to meet and mingle.

This program was created by Elizabeth Bird of the New York Public Library and Cheryl Klein of Scholastic, but as of this meeting, they have passed the leadership on to a new set of hosts. Read More 

Late this afternoon, I attended a party on the third floor of NYU’s Bobst Library, just outside of the Fales Collection. The occasion was the retirement of Deirdre S. Stam from her position as a professor at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science (part of Long Island University), where she directed the program in Rare Books and Special Collections. I had the good luck to take one of her last presentations of “LIS 713: Rare Book and Special Collections Librarianship”.

Dr. Stam will be succeeded as Director of the Rare Books program at Palmer by J. Fernando Peña, who comes to Palmer from the Grolier Club in New York.

I found the following excerpt from an article by Professor Stam, and I thought it fit the moment: Read More 

Welcome to Greg Holch's Library, my new blog.

Greg Holch's Library lives in several worlds, just as I do. It lives in the world of children's book authors and their books, in the world of children's book editors and editing, and in the world of librarians and libraries. Its exact location is at the crossroads where all three worlds converge.