New Zealand Gets Local Libraries Focus From Local Governments Minister
Sean Murgatroyd wrote at The Room of Infinite Diligence that the local governments minister has directed local councils to regard libraries as core services as well...
View ArticleServing Literature by the Tweet
The founders of Electric Literature, a new quarterly literary magazine, seek nothing less than to revitalize the short story in the age of the short attention...
View ArticleA New Main Library for San Diego?
The San Diego City Council voted 6-2 yesterday to pay the project’s original architect and construction consultants an additional $500,000 to begin the bidding process on...
View ArticleAnd Dancing in the Streets…
Following up on our story last month, today’s New York Times features a photo of Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet dancing with the librarian who invited her...
View ArticlePatrons Join Library Director in a Flashlight Read-In
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio— Fourteen patrons of the Public Library of Youngstown & Mahoning County, seven on each side of Carlton Sears, turned out their electric-bulb candles Wednesday...
View ArticleFDsys Tutorials
GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) is an advanced digital system that will enable GPO to manage Government information from all three branches of the U.S. Government....
View ArticleAmid Price War, Three Retailers Begin Rationing Books
Two weeks after an online book price war broke out among giant retailers, the three stores involved—Walmart, Amazon and Target—are limiting the number of copies their...
View ArticleFat But… Weighty Concerns in Children’s Literature
Excellent blog post (and very entertaining video) by Elizabeth Bluemle in Publishers Weekly about how overweight characters are described in children’s books. She is concerned that...
View ArticleSirsiDynix Corp [Not Very] restricted lobby paper against Open Source...
David Lee King pointed out A Post On Wikileaks about SirsiDynix: “This document was released only to a select number of existing customers of the company...
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