LISNews: Librarian News

jen writes \"Beware The List!
Librarians! Citizens! Be advised that terrorists are easily identified by their chosen reading material. Please study the list of terrorist-preferred volumes below - and promptly report any persons you may encounter reading them to the FBI Terror Literature specialists who will soon be visiting your community! \"

This from the same site that brought us Presidential Prayer Squad issues Emergency Green Card To Jesus Christ.

Apparently
the Beijing Evening News reported as fact an article from the never
credible, but still oddly \'true,\'
TheOnion.com. 
Slashdot\'s
crew kindly pointed out the
original Onion article, along with some interesting observations
on how occasionally the TheOnion\'s articles trump the general news
media in providing factual background information (mixed, of course, with
their selective, blatant falsehoods for a devastating \'I\'m embarrassed
to be laughing at that\' effectiveness;-).

Reuter\'s
reports the editor of the Beijing Evening News as explaining, \"the
story was written by one of our freelance writers\" [HI BLAKE, thinks the
freelance Hermit, ;-], \"his
stuff has been pretty much reliable before.\"

The extra
punch line is that after the editor heard from Reuters and was \"told the
story came from the Onion and was not true, the editor said, \"We would
first have to check that out.  If it\'s indeed fake, I\'m sure there
will be some form of correction.\"\"
-Hermit 
;-)
LISNews Keywords: China
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Ender The _Duke of URL_ writes: \"Libraries of fine usability have issues of Mad Magazine for patron
perusal. In the current issue (#418) is a Spy-vs-Spy (which is not on
the website) detailing White
Spy\'s trip to the library and the hijinks that ensue when he tries to
check out a book without having his library card.\"

Michael McGrorty writes \"In the dusty backroom of a big city library, a woman sits alone, eating an apple for lunch while she balances her checkbook. Like every other month, she struggles with finances; tonight she will have to rent a video instead of going to the theater with friends. Her last vacation was spent with Leo Tolstoy and a folding chair on the balcony of her apartment. She tell herself that it’s okay to wear last year’s lipstick; she can always wring another season out of that old purse. But she’s beginning to lose hope. -- Read More