LISNews: Librarian News

Bob Cox sent along the Salon Story on the death of Astrid Lindgren, creator of the braided, freethinking Pippi Longstocking, died Monday. She was 94.

\"I write to amuse the child within me and can only hope that other children may have some fun that way too,\" Lindgren once wrote.

Tanya writes \"One of the reasons I\'m often homesick for New Orleans is that I miss the history and richness of the city. It seems around every corner there is a house or place desginated as an historical treasure of one kind or another. And the best thing about it is that most of these places have resonance for all of American culture and not just the local area. With the help of the ALA yet another piece of New Orleans is being recognized, the birthplace of Lillian Hellman. Today at 3pm the house will become the next in a growing number of National Literary Landmarks recognized in the U.S. Previous National Literary Landmarks in the city include the home of Tennesee Williams and the home of William Faulkner.

Full Story from Nola.com\"

This story from the Columbus Dispatch is about Millie Benson,
author of most of the Nancy Drew books. She wrote under the
pseudonym Carolyn Keene (she is my favorite ND author),
beginning a childhood favorite that still is in print and has sold
more than 200 million books. Then she went into journalism.....

Full Story

Charles Davis writes \"Story from
Ananova, A rare first edition of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy has gone on display at the British Library.
The display also includes a first edition of The Hobbit and
letters from JRR Tolkien to his grandson. In one of the letters Tolkien talks of losing his privacy, having become an unwilling celebrity.\"

In other news from England, Project to refurbish Bodleian Old Library complete, A four-year project to refurbish all the reader areas of the Bodleian Old Library has been completed, ahead of the Library\'s 400th anniversary next year.

A New Bodley Library Exhibit \"A Nation of Shopkeepers - Trade Ephemera from 1654 to the 1860s in the John Johnson Collection\" has gone online.