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		<title>Bay Area immigration records, destined for dustbin, will be released Tuesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contra Costa Times &#8211; &#8220;Tens of thousands of old West Coast immigration records the government once sought to throw away will instead become publicly available on Tuesday at a Bay Area archive. Photographs, letters, health records, interview transcripts and other historical documents were destined for a recycling bin or a remote Midwestern storage facility. &#8220;We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/22/bay-area-immigration-records-destined-for-dustbin-will-be-released-tuesday/</link>
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		<title>‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ by E. L. James, in Demand at Libraries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NY Times. &#8211; &#8220;It did not escape the notice of Tim Cole, the collections manager for the Greensboro Public Library in North Carolina, that “Fifty Shades of Grey” was “of mixed literary merit,” as he put it with a heavy helping of Southern politeness. He ordered 21 copies anyway.&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/22/fifty-shades-of-grey-by-e-l-james-in-demand-at-libraries/</link>
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		<title>U.C.L.A. Professor Makes a Case for Google as Publisher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NYTimes &#8211; &#8220;IS Google search an intermediary like the phone company — simply connecting people with the information they seek? Or is Google search a publisher, like a newspaper, which provides only the information that it sees fit and is protected by the First Amendment?&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/22/u-c-l-a-professor-makes-a-case-for-google-as-publisher/</link>
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		<title>Donor Resurrects Endangered Bookmobile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NPR &#8211; &#8220;When a bookmobile broke down last winter in rural Vermont, patrons, especially preschoolers, really missed it. Then a donor, who heard an NPR story about the rolling library&#8217;s demise, came up with over $100,000 for a replacement. The town can&#8217;t believe its good fortune.&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/21/donor-resurrects-endangered-bookmobile/</link>
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		<title>Writers won&#8217;t lose out if libraries lend ebooks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Observer &#8211; &#8220;Should public libraries lend ebooks? The Society of Authors has called on culture minister Ed Vaizey to address concerns that library e-lending is &#8220;undervaluing retail pricing&#8221; and encouraging piracy. The writers&#8217; union says it remains &#8220;strongly of the view that remote lending of ebooks is not an essential or primary role of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/18/writers-wont-lose-out-if-libraries-lend-ebooks/</link>
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		<title>Digital Bookmobile To Set Pace for Indianapolis 500</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overdrive Blog. &#8211; &#8220;What has a 600-horsepower engine, an interior loaded with cutting-edge technology, and is sure to make crowds road in Indianapolis later this month? The Digital Bookmobile, of course!On May 24 and 25, while racecars are lapping the track in preparation for the Indianapolis 500, the Digital Bookmobile National Tour will be thrilling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/16/digital-bookmobile-to-set-pace-for-indianapolis-500/</link>
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		<title>“A bizarre operation”: Why West Virginia stuck $22,600 routers in tiny libraries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ars Technica &#8211; &#8220;West Virginia&#8217;s Charleston Gazette has been hopping mad this week as one of its reporters learned that the state has been sticking 1,064 high-end $22,600 routers into “little public institutions as small as rural libraries with just one computer terminal.” When reporter Eric Eyre actually called up Cisco posing as a customer, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/11/a-bizarre-operation-why-west-virginia-stuck-22600-routers-in-tiny-libraries/</link>
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		<title>All 7 Harry Potter eBooks Coming to Kindle Owners’ Lending Library</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazon.com &#8211; &#8220;Owning a Kindle just got a whole lot better for magic-loving Muggles. Starting June 19, Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) is adding all seven Harry Potter books (in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish) to the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library (KOLL). Harry Potter is the all-time best-selling book series in history, and Amazon has purchased an exclusive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/10/all-7-harry-potter-ebooks-coming-to-kindle-owners-lending-library/</link>
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		<title>Zero Dollar Books Shows You All the Best Selling Kindle Ebooks Currently Available for Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LifeHacker &#8211; &#8220;Sorting through the Amazon store for free ebooks can be a bit of a mess. To simplify the process Zero Dollar Books is a simple webapp that aggregates all the best selling free ebooks and shows them off in a nice clean view.&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/09/zero-dollar-books-shows-you-all-the-best-selling-kindle-ebooks-currently-available-for-free/</link>
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		<title>A Library for the Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NYT Editorial &#8211; &#8220;For over a century, New York’s majestic central library on Fifth Avenue has drawn grateful scholars and dazzled tourists. Faced with financial uncertainties and a pressing need to modernize, the president of the New York Public Library system, Anthony Marx, has put forward a $300 million proposal to renovate the flagship building. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/09/a-library-for-the-future/</link>
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		<title>Goodreads Catalogs 300 Millionth Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Goodreads Blog &#8211; &#8220;Goodreads continues to grow at a phenomenal pace. Today, we had our 300 millionth book cataloged! To give this statistic some context: It took the Goodreads community three years to catalog 100 million books (including books marked as read, to-read, or currently reading). Fourteen months later, in late September 2011, we reached [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/09/goodreads-catalogs-300-millionth-book/</link>
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		<title>Thomson Reuters Creates Searchable Trademark Database</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Press Release &#8211; &#8220;Thomson CompuMark, a Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property &#038; Science business and the global leader in trademark searching and brand protection solutions, today announced plans to launch 136 new databases for its SAEGIS® on SERION® online trademark screening solution. The addition of this content will make Thomson CompuMark the world’s largest provider of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/08/thomson-reuters-creates-searchable-trademark-database/</link>
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		<title>Schools ban novel over teen sex scene</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tennessean &#8211; &#8220;A school district has deemed an awkward teen&#8217;s two-page oral sex encounter at boarding school in the coming-of-age novel &#8220;Looking for Alaska&#8221; too racy, banning the book from class reading lists. Sumner County Schools are at least the second in the state, after Knox County in March, to keep students from reading it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/08/schools-ban-novel-over-teen-sex-scene/</link>
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		<title>Are Public Libraries &#8220;Permanently F***ed?&#8221; Maybe Not</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SF Weekly &#8211; &#8220;Jessa Crispin arrived at the 2012 Public Library Association Conference in Philadelphia in March with high expectations. And by high, we mean abysmal. &#8220;Secure in the knowledge that libraries are now permanently fucked,&#8221; wrote the editor-in-Chief of the popular &#8220;litblog&#8221; Bookslut. Surely librarians would crumble before her, the harsh fiscal realities having [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/08/are-public-libraries-permanently-fed-maybe-not/</link>
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		<title>Toronto Star publishes digital archive of Ernest Hemingway columns: Young &#8216;Papa&#8217; wrote of bootleggers &amp; bullfighters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York Daily News &#8211; &#8220;In a handsome new website called The Hemingway Papers, the Toronto Star has collected the columns that Ernest Hemingway wrote for that newspaper. In doing so, it sheds much-needed light on a little-known aspect of the great writer&#8217;s career, and does so in a sleek, inviting and easy-to-navigate format.&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/08/toronto-star-publishes-digital-archive-of-ernest-hemingway-columns-young-papa-wrote-of-bootleggers-bullfighters/</link>
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		<title>Maurice Sendak, &#8216;Where Wild Things Are&#8217; Author, Dies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Associated Press &#8211; &#8220;Maurice Sendak, the children&#8217;s book author and illustrator who saw the sometimes-dark side of childhood in books like Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen, has died. He was 83. Longtime friend and caretaker Lynn Caponera says she was with him when he died early Tuesday at a hospital [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/08/maurice-sendak-where-wild-things-are-author-dies/</link>
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		<title>Watch worldwide book sales, live</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LA Times &#8211; &#8220;The Book Depository is a British-based online bookseller that ships to countries around the world, for free. To bring that point home, it has built a map that shows who bought what, where, just now. The window of the map moves to reach the most recent purchase, zooming back and forth from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/08/watch-worldwide-book-sales-live/</link>
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		<title>New York Public Library must look to the future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NY Daily News &#8211; &#8220;Beloved as a crown jewel of world culture, the New York Public Library’s stately main branch is up for a historic makeover that promises to well serve the city. The building, outside which the lions lounge on Fifth Ave., houses 5 million volumes, most of them on 90 miles of shelving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/07/new-york-public-library-must-look-to-the-future/</link>
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		<title>Reading With Pictures: The Graphic Textbook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wired &#8211; &#8220;I’m going to assume you’ve already heard the argument that comics are a great way to teach literacy, and not re-hash that here. Comics are also a pretty good way to teach other things as well: it’s a very blurry line between comics and instructional diagrams, for instance. The combination of words and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/07/reading-with-pictures-the-graphic-textbook/</link>
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		<title>Brevard libraries pull erotic best-seller &#8216;Fifty Shades of Grey&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Florida Today &#8211; The erotic “Fifty Shades of Grey” apparently is too blue for the Brevard County Public Libraries system. The wildly popular first installment of a titillating trilogy by British author E.L. James, “Fifty Shades” is parked atop every best-seller list in the country, from Amazon to the New York Times. But the sadomasochistic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/04/brevard-libraries-pull-erotic-best-seller-fifty-shades-of-grey/</link>
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		<title>At Brown University, Stumbling Across a Rarity in the Rare Book Room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NY Times &#8211; &#8220;Day after day, a tall, shy woman weaves her way unnoticed through the earnest and learned campus swirl of Brown University. She enters the hush of a library, then promptly vanishes from sight. Down goes Marie Malchodi, 48, who attended but never graduated from Brown, down to the library’s subterranean warrens, where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/03/at-brown-university-stumbling-across-a-rarity-in-the-rare-book-room/</link>
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		<title>Google wants authors group out of NY library case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Associated Press &#8211; &#8220;Google Inc. urged a judge Thursday to toss The Authors Guild and an organization representing photographers out of 6-year-old litigation over the future of the world&#8217;s largest digital library, a move that would force authors and photographers to individually fight the online search engine giant. Google attorney Daralyn Durie told Judge Denny [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/03/google-wants-authors-group-out-of-ny-library-case/</link>
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		<title>Helping students become savvy searchers with [Google&#039;s] new Search Education hub</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Inside Search &#8211; &#8220;In the interest of creating more of these magical moments for students, we’re pleased to announce our new Search Education website, bringing educators the tools they need to help students become savvy searchers and independent learners Learning to tap the full potential of Google Search empowers students in both their academic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/02/helping-students-become-savvy-searchers-with-googles-new-search-education-hub/</link>
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		<title>What Is the Role of Libraries in the Age of E-Books and Digital Information?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PBS &#8211; &#8220;Public libraries are a major hub through which Americans gain access to e-books and other digital resources, but these institutions&#8217; role in the digital transition hasn&#8217;t been made easy by the nation&#8217;s recent economic troubles. On April 9, the American Library Association released its annual State of America&#8217;s Libraries Report, and many of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/01/what-is-the-role-of-libraries-in-the-age-of-e-books-and-digital-information/</link>
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		<title>A universal digital library is within reach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LA Times &#8211; &#8220;Since 2002, at first in secret and later with great fanfare, Google has been working to create a digital collection of all the world&#8217;s books, a library that it hopes will last forever and make knowledge far more universally accessible. But from the beginning, there has been an obstacle even more daunting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/05/01/a-universal-digital-library-is-within-reach/</link>
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