Library Stuff

Capitol Seattle – “The city is flipping a few pages ahead and looking at the future of libraries in Seattle.”

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Pittsburgh Tribune – “Kathy Kelly, an Erie law librarian, has developed a recycling method so unique, she’s seeking a patent. Kelly makes purses and laptop computer cases from the covers of outdated law books and other volumes.”

So cool!

Radio Berkman – “This week we sit down with Carl Malamud, who with the group Public.Resource.org is pushing to put law in the public domain. We covered the issue of copyright on law a few months ago in Radio Berkman 129 where Steve Schultze introduced us to RECAP – a software that helps legal researchers bypass hefty fees for access to legal documents.”

AnnArbor.com – “Nothing lasts forever. So it will be said about the University of Michigan Library’s card catalogs when they are removed from their home in the bowels of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library on March 8. Twelve and a half million volumes strong, the card catalog has been in disuse for more than 20 years, ever since the university established the MIRLYN electronic catalog in 1988.”

NYT – “In one room, Meade Esposito, the Democratic boss from Brooklyn, was tightening his grip on the Brooklyn waterfront. Next door, New York’s former mayor, John V. Lindsay, was struggling with the teachers strike of 1968. And in the third room, an idealistic young woman from the Midwest was trying to teach poetry at Rikers Island. It was just another day at a recording studio in Manhattan where New York stories are lifted off the printed page and into the spoken word for blind New Yorkers seeking audio versions of books about their city.”