Library Stuff

Seattle Times – “Eleven branches will be open 60 hours a week, seven days a week. For those branches, that’s an increase of 5 hours a week, a move to provide services to library-goers at branches where hours are being reduced. The council, in its budget negotiations, made a big priority of saving library hours. Members ended up restoring about $860,000 in cuts proposed by the mayor. Beginning Wednesday, the majority of library branches will be open just five days a week and will have reduced hours the days they are open. Currently, most are open six or seven days a week.”

Canoe.ca – “Little or no grammar teaching, cellphone texting, social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, all are being blamed for an increasingly unacceptable number of post-secondary students who can’t write properly.”

WSJ – “How’s this for human progress? It took about 4,000 years from the invention of writing to the Roman-era codex of bound pages replacing scrolls, 1,000 years from the codex to movable type creating printed books, 500 years from the printing press to the Internet—and only 25 years to the launch of the iPad.”

Examiner – “The Diary of a Young Girl’ survives book-banning flap in Culpepper VA”

Lifehacker – “You can never have enough storage space, especially if you’re a book lover. This clever hack turns the unused space between rafters into book shelves.”