LISNews: Librarian News

Bill Drew writes \"I have been trying to think how libraries might help their user communities in response to the attacks yesterday. I am helping by providing links to information resources I have found or that have been sent to me. I started with links from the Tourbus service sent to me by Jo Anne Ellis of SUNY ESF at Syracuse University. I am then adding others as I find them.
The URL is: morrisville.edu/library/timely.html

Other things we can do:
- listen to your patrons.
- provide a safe haven away from the news if it is needed.
- stay open to provide normality.
- be human and admit your own responses.
- share news and information sources with other libraries and librarians.

Any other suggestions are welcome.

From the Honolulu Star Bulletin:
\"State librarian Virginia Lowell is slated to get a pay raise from the Board of Education tomorrow, which would boost her annual salary to $108,000 from the current $85,302.\"
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That\'s about all there is to it folks: just a short notation in Nick Denton\'s weblog entry for August 27th. Some pretty high praise from the founder of Moreover Technologies which takes online current awareness to a new level. The entry in the \'blog is to Peter Scott\'s list of library weblogs.

When trustees of the Magness, (TN) library fired the librarian for wanting to relocate the library and provide patrons with improved service, the rest of the library\'s employees walked off the job. According to the article, the board member who served Librarian Susan Curtis with a piece of paper stating that \"her services were no longer needed, said, \"The board wants to strive to make the Magness Library more of what the original benefactors described it to be. We can be the cornerstone of Main Street revitalization. The library shouldn\'t just be a dusty, old book depository. Donations like the $100,000 given by Carrier Corporation could open the doors to making the library a place where piano recitals could be conducted and small community plays could be held.\" more... from The Southern Standard. ---- Also be sure and read what the community says about it at the end of the article.