Book Patrol – “The population of librarians on Facebook has organized as People For a Library-Themed Ben & Jerry’s Flavor and is petitioning Ben & Jerry’s, the Vermont-based ice creamery famous for their multi-flavor mash-ups, for a taste sensation they can call their very own.”
KSALLink – “The Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum is making available thousands of recently declassified documents. These formerly security classified documents provide additional insight into key foreign policy issues during the Eisenhower presidency.”
University of Rochester News – “The University of Rochester River Campus Libraries has been awarded $175,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to provide development support for the eXtensible Catalog (XC), the library’s newly developed software interface that vastly improves library searches.”
BBC NEWS – “This year’s “exceptional” list of 13 titles is dominated by established writers, including two former winners, and four past-shortlisted authors.”
Guardian.co.uk – “Marks in library books are usually moronic scrawlings or tedious displays of ego, but just occasionally you come across something fascinating”
Quad City Times – “The former operations manager for the Moline Public Library has filed a discrimination suit against the city, the library and library director Leslie Kee, who is retiring at the end of the week. Mary B. Clark filed the suit in U.S. District Court, Rock Island, on Monday, alleging that her position was eliminated at the end of December in retaliation for her complaints about Kee.”
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES – “So Horizon Group Management LLC filed a libel lawsuit Monday against former tenant Amanda Bonnen, claiming one of her alleged Twitter posts “maliciously and wrongfully” slammed her apartment at 4242 N. Sheridan and the company managing it.”
mirror.co.uk – “Library officials have banned a Sunday school leader from putting up a poster they deemed too religious – while their shop offers mints mocking Christianity.”
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