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June 23, 2025

Director’s Message: Collections Updates

Budget-related changes begin in July.

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May 27, 2025

Director’s Message: Taking Pride in Stride

Come as you are for events, books & more.

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May 12, 2025

Director’s Message: The Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden

An appreciation to Dr. Carla Hayden.

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April 3, 2025

Director’s Message: To Daffodils!*

To Daffodils!

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March 6, 2025

Director’s Message: Celebration of All Women

Women’s History Month

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February 17, 2025

Director’s Message: Know Your Rights

A guide to resources.

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January 10, 2025

Director’s Message: a 2024 too long, yet not long enough

There is much more work to be done.

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December 4, 2024

Too Cool For Yule #17

Don’t touch that dial.

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October 24, 2024

Director’s Message: An Update on the Future of Libraries

Explore the results of our latest community engagement project.

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September 10, 2024

Director’s Message: Still Reading What You Want—Whenever. However. Forever.

The data is in: Arlington residents love to read.

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August 2, 2024

Happy Centennial James Baldwin! 

Celebrating James Baldwin

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June 3, 2024

Pride Month and My 50th Anniversary Working in Libraries

Director’s Message

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April 11, 2024

Director’s Message for National Library Week

National Library Week 2024 is celebrated Sunday, April 7 through Saturday, April 13.

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January 5, 2024

Director’s Message: New Year. Same Resolution.

Books I recommend to others.

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November 28, 2023

Too Cool for Yule: #16

Don’t Touch that Dial.

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October 6, 2023

Director’s Message: Read What You Want. Whenever. However.

A Banned Books Week message.

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August 25, 2023

Director’s Message: Libraries for All

They celebrate our collective and varied cultures.

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July 12, 2023

Director’s Message: Summer is a Time to Read for Fun. Seriously.

Let’s read, share, and then read some more.

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May 1, 2023

Director’s Message: Reflections on the Human Library

A promise of increased understanding and mutual respect

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April 26, 2023

Director’s Message for National Library Week

There’s more to our story.

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January 11, 2023

The Library Director’s 2022 Reading List.

Books I recommend to others.

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December 6, 2022

Director’s Message: End-of-Year Reflections

End-of-Year Reflections

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November 22, 2022

Too Cool for Yule: #15

Don’t Touch that Dial.

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October 10, 2022

Taking it Personally: National Coming Out Day

Oct. 11, marks the 34th anniversary of National Coming Out Day

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September 7, 2022

Stand Up for Books

Banned Books Week (September 18-24, 2022) promotes free and open access to ideas and information.

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December 20, 2021

Reading Between the Lines: Year Two of Reading in a Pandemic

The Library Director’s 2021 Goodreads Reading List.

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November 29, 2021

Too Cool for Yule, 2021

Pop, jazz, instrumental, New Orleans, country, bluegrass, R&B, old school pop, The Chipmunks, and more on Diane’s annual playlist.

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August 18, 2021

Message from the Library Director on Masks and Social Distancing

All individuals, age two and older, who enter Arlington Public Library buildings will be required to wear a mask, regardless...

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December 4, 2020

The Library Director’s 2020 Book List, Continued

“My reading tastes shifted along with everything else in both my work and home life.”

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November 30, 2020

The Library Director’s 2020 End-of-Year Playlist

How to honor those who have left us too soon, the sacrifices we’ve made, and the uncertainty of what next...

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June 18, 2020

A Change is Gonna Come: A Playlist for Black Lives Matter

From the Library Director.

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June 8, 2020

Happy Pride…

We Have Work To Do. – Diane’s thoughts on Pride Month, 2020.

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June 1, 2020

Public Libraries Stand For Liberty, Tolerance And Acceptance

A message from the Library Director.

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May 29, 2020

Changes Ahead: A Message from the Library Director

We have been preparing for reopening, while remaining committed to our mission and to the health and safety of our...

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April 20, 2020

Serving Arlington During the COVID-19 Pandemic

National Library Week: April 19-25, 2020

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March 24, 2020

Dancing with Myself: Playlist for a Pandemic

Tunes from the Library Director.

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November 25, 2019

The Library Director’s 2019 Playlist

A collection of seasonal tunes, from schlock to rock, and everything in between

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October 7, 2019

Taking it Personally: National Coming Out Day

The Library honors National Coming Out Day by displaying Pride flags at all of our locations.

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May 31, 2019

On the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall

This year, Arlington County celebrates “50 Years Forward: from riots to rights” and cities across the country, will host Pride...

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November 26, 2018

“Too Cool for Yule” 2018

A number of years ago, I began creating the holiday play list, variously known as “Don’t Touch that Dial,” the...

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October 11, 2018

Free To Be

Thursday, October 11, 2018, marks the 30th anniversary of National Coming Out Day, an annual observance to raise awareness of...

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June 26, 2018

Commitment to Racial and Social Equity

Today, the Arlington Public Library joined with libraries in our area and around the country in signing the Urban Libraries...

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June 5, 2018

Director’s Blog: Vital Signs

A number of years ago, I was invited to mount a photo exhibit in Zagreb, Croatia. “Vital Signs” was a...

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March 19, 2018

Women’s Work

Today, with a bit of tongue in cheek and in honor of Women’s History month, Arlington Public Library launches a...

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January 24, 2018

The Cookie Chronicles: Life Skills 101

Were you a Girl Scout? Do you have a cookie-selling story to share?

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December 22, 2017

Libraries Now and Forever

On behalf of all the Library staff, thank you for being part of a great public library system and best...

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December 14, 2017

Put an “i” in Civic

Looking for something fun and meaningful to do this holiday season, either on your own, with your family or with...

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December 4, 2017

Don’t Touch That Dial 2017

Thanksgiving has come and gone which means it’s time to dust off the annual “Don’t Touch That Dial” holiday mix.

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September 19, 2017

Director’s Blog: Banned Books Week

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view until you climb into his...

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February 14, 2017

An Important Note From the Library Director

Arlington Public Library remains committed to being a welcoming place that accepts all comers regardless of backgrounds, beliefs, origin, income...

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December 13, 2016

Don’t Touch That Dial, 2016 Edition

It’s the Library Director’s favorite annual blog post – a time to look back on the year, and to share...

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November 3, 2016

Director’s Blog: The Right to Vote

“It was in Miss Barbara Nelson’s first grade class at Stewart-Tuckahoe that I first learned that the choices I made...

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June 29, 2016

Library Director Receives Women of Vision Award

Library Director Diane Kresh honored by the Commission on the Status of Women at the 2016 Women of Vision Awards…

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January 14, 2016

Director’s Blog: Golden Years

Library Director Diane Kresh’s thoughts on David Bowie, and sharing the gift of courage…

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December 4, 2015

Our Annual “Too Cool for Yule” Blog

AKA“Don’t Touch that Dial” Mix  The National Day of Listening has now gone past. But we’re just getting started with...

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November 9, 2015

Celebrating 170 Years of Service

It’s not every day that we get to celebrate our own… On Thursday, Nov. 5, Arlington County celebrated six Library...

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September 23, 2015

Director's Blog: Take a Stand for Books

An email from Powell’s Books in Portland, Ore. arrived in my inbox yesterday reminding me that Sept. 28 – Oct....

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April 30, 2015

40 Years Since Saigon Fell

Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, was captured April 30, 1975 as the United States pulled out its remaining diplomats...

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January 22, 2015

Director’s Blog: The Cookie Chronicles

If the sign-up sheets haven’t yet begun circulating in your office, don’t fret.  They will soon. The annual Girl Scout...

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December 4, 2014

Your Annual 2014 “Too Cool for Yule Blog” Mix

This “Frozen” time of the year we bring you good cheer… And queued a set of tunes you’re just longing to...

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June 6, 2014

Director’s Blog: Vital Signs

“We are Pride” In celebration of Pride Month, Director’s Blog is featuring “Vital Signs,” a collection of my photographs chronicling the LGBT...

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May 13, 2014

Director’s Blog: Class of 2014

Class of 2014 A couple of events–one past and one pending–have me engaged in a fair amount of self-reflection. First:...

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January 6, 2014

A Birthday Tale to Tell

The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll Would Be 79 this Wednesday Here’s a double trouble playlist, with a hit from...

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December 5, 2013

The Annual Yule Blog: Rocking, Swinging Through the Holidays with APL

Our Sixth Annual Yule Blog The month of December is finally here The time of the season we bring you...

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December 3, 2012

Our Fifth Annual "Too Cool for Yule Blog"

The classified confetti from Macy’s parade is now gone.   Black Friday and Cyber Monday, too.  It’s that most wonderful...

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November 27, 2012

Director's Blog: November's Happy Ending

It’s been quite an autumn in Arlington. First came Hurricane Sandy, which thankfully caused little of the heart-breaking destruction seen...

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October 2, 2012

Answers to (Almost) Anything

Meet the Public (through the Press) I had the pleasure of taking part last week in a new feature at...

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April 3, 2012

Tombstone Blues

Almost Gone


Clarendon, April 2, 2012.

TA Sullivan & Son Monuments photo by Diane Kresh.

 

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February 16, 2012

Last Dance

Old sign on North Fairfax, now gone. Arlington business sign, now replaced. Photo taken by Diane Kresh on May 8,...

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November 26, 2011

Don’t Touch That Screen: Fourth Annual Good Tidings and Tunes Yule Blog

Each year, the Christmas season seems to arrive a little earlier. A few weeks ago, it was not yet Halloween...

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September 6, 2011

Arlington Public Library Remembers

Where were you on Sept. 11, 2001? As the 10th anniversary of this epochal moment approaches, I find myself reflecting...

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August 18, 2011

When Arlington Did the Right Thing

“The time is always right to do the right thing.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On August 28, the...

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May 27, 2011

Take Me Out–Summer Dreams of Fields

Baseball became a part of my life on a cool evening in the late summer of 1960 at Griffith Stadium...

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December 20, 2010

Too Cool for Yule: 3rd Annual Holiday Tunes from the Director, Part 3

  And now we bring you the last part of the Library Director’s annual “Don’t Touch That Dial” holiday-music blog...

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December 19, 2010

Too Cool for Yule: Holiday Tunes from the Director, part 2

This week we bring you the Library Director’s annual “Don’t Touch That Dial” holiday-music blog post, designed to chase the...

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December 18, 2010

Too Cool for Yule: 3rd Annual Holiday Tunes from the Director, in 3 Part Harmony

  This week we bring you the Library Director’s annual “Don’t Touch That Dial” holiday-music blog post, designed to chase...

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July 30, 2010

Summertime and the Listening is Easy

Summer’s here. . . I’m for that. Got my rubber sandals, got my straw hat. Schools out for summer. Schools...

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February 12, 2010

The Arlington Years: Snowver It

The Arlington Years Thoughts From County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane Kresh The last several days of wintery...

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December 15, 2009

Don’t Touch That Dial – The Second Annual Yule Blog

  Here we come a caroling—‘tis the season to be seasonal. It’s that most wonderful time of the year for...

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November 18, 2009

The Arlington Years: Library Wins ABBIE award for "Best Place to Learn Something New"

The Arlington Years Thoughts From County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane Kresh It was announced at today’s County...

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August 27, 2009

The Arlington Years: OLD Westover Will Close Sept. 26 in Preparation for NEW Westover

The Arlington Years Thoughts from County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane Kresh Greetings Readers, We wanted to let...

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August 6, 2009

The Arlington Years: New Westover Branch Library Opening in Late October

The Arlington Years Thoughts from County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane Kresh More details to come but we’ve...

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July 13, 2009

The Arlington Years: Former Library Director Lelia Saunders Has Died

The Arlington Years Thoughts from County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane Kresh Sad news today about someone who...

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June 19, 2009

The Arlington Years: New Thursday, Friday Hours for Cherrydale, Glencarlyn; Westover Remains Open

The Arlington Years Thoughts From County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane KreshHello again, Thank you for your patience...

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April 29, 2009

The Arlington Years: Aurora Hills to Keep Hours; Cherrydale, Glencarlyn Reduced By One Day

The Arlington Years Thoughts from County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane Kresh More details on the approved FY...

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April 13, 2009

The Arlington Years: Fiscal Affairs Advisory Commission on FY 2010 Proposed Library Budget

The Arlington Years Thoughts from County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane Kresh As submitted to the County Board,...

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March 31, 2009

The Arlington Years: Library Proposed FY 2010 Budget FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

The Arlington Years Thoughts from County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane Kresh Hello,The following is based on questions...

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February 26, 2009

The Arlington Years: Arlington Public Library Service Reductions and the FY 2010 Budget

The Arlington Years Thoughts from County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane KreshDear friends,As we adjust to the new...

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February 25, 2009

The Arlington Years: Fiscal Year 2010 Recommended Arlington Public Library Budget

The Arlington Years Thoughts from County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane Kresh Please read the proposed Department of...

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February 3, 2009

The Arlington Years: The Day the Music Died (almost)

The Arlington Years Thoughts from County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane Kresh Fifty years ago today teen pop...

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January 21, 2009

The Arlington Years: Are you ready, Senator?

The Arlington Years Thoughts from County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane Kresh Visit Flickr for more of my...

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January 15, 2009

The Arlington Years: Meet "The Librarian" of 1947

The Arlington Years

Thoughts from County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane Kresh

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January 9, 2009

The Arlington Years: My brush with Elvis

The Arlington Years Thoughts from County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane Kresh Yesterday was the King’s birthday. He...

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December 26, 2008

The Arlington Years: At Your Service

The Arlington Years Thoughts from County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane Kresh Several weeks ago I had the...

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December 26, 2008

The Arlington Years: Looking Ahead

The Arlington Years

Thoughts from County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane Kresh

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December 18, 2008

Don’t Touch that Dial—A Yule Blog from the Director

Do you hear what I hear? As another holiday season has us in the grip (or gripe), I am reminded...

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December 3, 2008

The Arlington Years: A Shout Out for Innovation

The Arlington Years Thoughts from County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane Kresh A capacity crowd was treated Dec....

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September 25, 2008

The Arlington Years: Arlington Talks

The Arlington Years Thoughts from County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane Kresh On a brisk and clear September...

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