LISNews: Librarian News

From The Detroit, (MI) News, Scott Neinas writes...
\"Hiram Wilkinson left Petersburg about 60 years ago to fight in World War II. Soon his remains may be coming back, thanks in part to a librarian at the Summerfield Petersburg Branch Library.\" [more...]

uible passed along This CSMonitor Story on a librarian who had a lasting and positive impact on the authors life.

\"I have never known a librarian I didn\'t like, but Tee-hee made himself extra-special by
finding me, each time, a book I didn\'t ask for, but which he had included over and above
the call of duty. He\'d lay out my requests one by one, and then say, \"And this one is for
you to read.\" Wasn\'t that nice?
\"

A New York University librarian has discovered two 19th century newspaper articles that shed light on the origins of baseball:

It is as elusive as the search for Atlantis, as tangled in legend as the quest for the Holy Grail. For nearly a century, historians have trolled stacks of dusty tomes in hopes of unearthing the origins of baseball. . . Now, two newspaper references to baseball have turned up that show that an organized version of the game was being played even earlier in New York City. The articles, discovered by a librarian at New York University, George A. Thompson Jr., bolster a growing consensus that baseball emerged gradually, by evolution and not by invention. [More from the New York Times]

From The Courier Times (Bucks County, PA) - Gwen Shrift writes...

\"As a kid, Lih-Yun Lin led genteel raids on her local library, at the head of a line of curious classmates. This was 50 or so years ago in Taiwan, not then a place where libraries catered to children. But Lih-Yun was hooked. Lih-Yun, now known as Betty Tsai, is still fascinated by libraries and works on behalf of Asian-Americans in her profession and operators of small Chinese restaurants, among others. Those who know her say she quickly identifies needs and works tirelessly to meet them. Over a career spanning nearly 40 years in this country, Tsai has also impressed her fellow librarians. The Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association, which she helped found in 1980, honored her last month with its first Ching-chih Chen Leadership Award.\" [more...]