LISNews: Librarian News

Librarians Serving Genealogists (LSG) was formed with just one purpose: to help librarians who serve genealogy patrons. One way to provide for the educational need is one of the LSG goals. It is their desire that every state genealogy society provides a scholarship for librarians to attend a national conference. Library budgets often do not allow many librarians who work with genealogy collections to attend conferences because of other library priorities. Exchange of ideas, genealogy education, sharing thoughts, trading materials, and discussing problems are just a few ways that LSG wants to help librarians to help their patrons.

An Anonymous Patron writes about Monty Harper. "Monty "books" more than 50 summer reading programs each year in Oklahoma and surrounding states.

Monty's recordings have received positive reviews in Booklist and School Library Journal. His latest CD, Take Me to Your Library, received a 2003 Parents' Choice Approved award."

Don Saklad sent in a link to Building with Books, a class @MIT.
"We will be designing and constructing furniture from disused books. If you are interested in finding new uses for discarded materials, or if you need a new piece of cool furniture, please join us. Projects may include chairs, shelves, tables, hammocks, walls, sculpture, and more. We will be working in a wood shop to find new ways to use books as structural or sculptural materials. The project is interdisciplinary and we are looking for creative uses for old reading material. Participants and organizers include engineers, architects, artists and more."

David Dillard writes "Here Is A list of a number of selected webliographies regarding the terrorist
attacks on the United States of September 11, 2001 and related issues such
as the diplomatic and military response to those terrorist attacks.
With the terrorist attacks on the United States over two years in the
past, there continues to be a need to know about many issues related to
these events and about the United States' diplomatic and military
responses to these attacks. These webliographies may serve as some good
starting points for research and reading resource listings on these
topics.
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