Archive | November, 2008

Our library shelves must show balance

ajc – “It behooves all those folks who decry the hijacking of African-American culture and literature by urban fiction to let their public libraries know that they wish a balance of high-brow, low-brow and everything in between on their bookshelves. It does indeed matter what we read.”

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Student seeks to name library room after TV’s Colbert

Salt Lake Tribune – “Orem – Nate Bagley hopes “truthiness” will prevail. The Utah Valley University student is waging a one-man campaign to get a room in the Digital Learning Center named for Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.”

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Chicago library doubling its late fee

Chicago Tribune – “Take that, Amazon.com. Another dime for an overdue book? Fine.”

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Alleged thief turns stolen library cards to cash

Capital Times – “Officers subsequently figured out Rowe was using library cards that were not his to check out DVDs, which he would then apparently sell to pawn shops or music stores.”

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Alabama’s first African American librarian dies

WSFA 12 – “She was the first librarian in the state with a masters degree in library science, and went on to open the first library for blacks in Montgomery in 1948.”

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