Friday updates for this week include Books as Punishment, building revival, JFK Library, Another librarian strike, $20 Million donation, A novel idea, Auditing the library, Stelaing books in Boston, Civil War Newspapres found, banned books, etc…
Friday updates for this week include Books as Punishment, building revival, JFK Library, Another librarian strike, $20 Million donation, A novel idea, Auditing the library, Stelaing books in Boston, Civil War Newspapres found, banned books, etc…
Books as Punishment?
Judge urges young thief to read \’Our Town\’
In sentencing a 19-year-old man who stole money from his grandparents, Barron County Judge James Eaton offered the young thief an unusual choice: Go to jail for six months, or cut 30 days from his term by reading Thornton Wilder\’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play \”Our Town\” and writing a report on it.
Building revival links elegance of two styles
Boston Public Library Hyde Park branch redisign is getting rave reviews.\”the architect, Bob Miklos of Schwartz/Silver, has created a gem: an elegant new wing of modern architecture, all steel and glass, that honors the integrity of the old building by not mimicking it. Old and new stand affectionately side by side like a snapshot: Grandpa in tweedy Brooks Brothers, teenager in Gothic black. And why not?\”
John F. Kennedy Library in Politics
The sponsors of the first proposed presidential debate adamantly rejected suggestions Tuesday that the University of Massachusetts in Boston doesn\’t constitute “neutral territory\’\’ for the event because it adjoins the John F. Kennedy Library. Though UMass-Boston, Kennedy Library insist they\’re \’neutral\’ sites.
Another Librarian Strike
Support staff is striking, this time in Australia, Full Story
\”Unionists have not ruled out further industrial action after State School support staff walked off the job yesterday over a dispute with the Education Department.
More than 100 school registrars, library staff, social trainers, reception and administrative staff in the south-west participated in the statewide stop-work meeting.
The Community and Public Sector Union members are angry over pay and conditions, including excessive work loads.\”
Allen Gives 20 Million to SPL
Paul Allen\’s $20 million donation to the Seattle Public Library is a gift to every citizen in this city. The money will help establish our library as the best-endowed in the nation and will dramatically improve service to readers.
The gift from the Paul Allen Charitable Foundation, announced yesterday, goes to establishing a permanent book-buying fund, building the children\’s center at the downtown branch and driving the library system toward its overall fund-raising goals. The library foundation has now raised $64 million of its $75 million goal.
From Seattle Times
From SF Gate.
A Novel Idea
Small Tenderloin brings its books to the streets after — school Library on Wheels Brings Books to Homeless People
\”Herman Taft is a sucker for a good love story.
“Even cynics like me need a romance every now and then,\’\’ said the 6-foot- 3-inch Taft, his deep voice booming through the lobby of the Jefferson Hotel in San Francisco\’s Tenderloin.\”
From the Home News Tribune
Audit findings: Library\’s books get bad review
\”After reviewing an audit of the South Brunswick Library, the Township Council wants to enter into an interlocal service agreement with the library board to manage its funds.The results of the audit, conducted in July by the Ernst and Young firm\’s Iselin branch, was discussed publicly Tuesday night, revealing weaknesses in the library\’s financial practices, including unidentifiable cash receipts and a lack of proper bookkeeping and accounting.\”
From the Boston Globe
Quincy man pleads guilty to theft of four books from Adams Library
\”A man pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing four priceless books – two of them recovered in New Hampshire – that once belonged to President John Quincy Adams.
Kevin Gildea, 44, of Quincy, admitted in US District Court to four counts of stealing and concealing objects of cultural heritage, US Attorney Donald Stern said.\”
From the Times Dispatch
Civil War newspapers discovered in E&H library
\”An archivist at Emory & Henry College in Washington County has discovered a trove of local newspapers published during the Civil War, a find researchers are hailing as a historically significant account of the war years in western Virginia.\”
From Digital City
Parents Want 2 Books Off Reading Lists
\”About 100 Montgomery County parents have signed a petition to remove two books from their children\’s school reading lists. Susan Jamison is one of the parents objecting to what she calls the sexual content and the negative portrayal of African-Americans in \”I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,\” by Maya Angelou and \”Sula,\” by Toni Morrison.\”
From Central Maine
Lack of room puts the squeeze on public libraries
\”When built in 1913, the Oakland Public Library was designed to hold 4,000 books.\”
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