Archive for the 'library' Category
The Ghost Hunters Visit the Library
March 19th, 2008Michael Lieberman - “Jacques J. Benoit, the library custodian at the Clapp Memorial Library in Belchertown, Massachusetts , has being seeing some “strange, unexplained happenings at the library for the past nine years.”
What Digital Media Can Learn From Books
March 2nd, 2008Arvin Dang - “Libraries, where books can be borrowed completely free seems completely unconventional right? If video content were offered on a public level similar to libraries, who’s losing out?”
Drive-through window at Decatur library?
January 5th, 2008Not exactly…
More on Bush Sr. Library
November 18th, 2007Michael Landauer - “In the 10 years since the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum opened in College Station, its eponym has traveled the world a few times over and experienced dozens of other museums. And he has taken notes.”
Short Books
September 3rd, 2007“Welcome to the lazylibrary, where you can find books on any topic without having to worry about high page counts. If it’s over 200 pages, you won’t even see it. Read all about anything, in less time, for (usually) less money. Search away.” (via)
Long Tail?
September 3rd, 2007New Yorker in London - “The library may not have much—a more limited selection than a giant bookstore, and books that aren’t as shiny and smooth to hold— but it always has something. A source of small treasure and just around the corner. And even better: you don’t need money.”
Library Myths
August 21st, 2007Judith Flanders - “The popular notion that people don’t want to borrow books any more is well overdue for revision.”
Lovin’ Libraries
August 12th, 2007C.W. Nevius - “To the surprise of nearly everyone, libraries are hot. The city’s Main Library has such a rush of visitors every morning when they open that one staffer jokingly refers to it as, “the running of the bulls.”
How About This For a First Sentence?
August 9th, 2007WIBW - “Wichita police say a security guard tasered a man who had been masturbating in the downtown Wichita library on Tuesday. The guard and a librarian say the man threatened them with a straight-edged knife.”
Welcoming Libraries
August 3rd, 2007Chanel Polk - “I go there all year but I read like crazy anyway. I’ve been of the opinion that if I couldn’t read I would have shot myself a long time ago. Of course I don’t mean that seriously, but I don’t know what else I would do,” he said.
Heck No, We Won’t Go
August 2nd, 2007Boston Globe - “Library directors remember the talk, not long ago, of technology rendering libraries obsolete. But statistics show that the opposite has occurred.” (via)
Michigan Supreme Court Ruling
July 26th, 2007AP - “Residents NOT living in a community have no constitutional right to borrow books from its library, a divided Michigan Supreme Court has ruled.”
Good Librar* PR
July 23rd, 2007Candace Lombardi - “Chances are you are buying, subscribing to, or stealing something you can get for free with a library card.”
Also: Gary Price is all over the Web today.