LISNews: Librarian News

Here's an idea for having fun and raising money for your library...the Friends of the Wetumpka Library, Wetumpka, AL, is hosting a luncheon featuring 21 mystery authors called Murder on the Menu: A Moveable Feast of Authors, on February 5. More details and a list of authors at the library's website .

Librarians in Owen Sound (ON) Canada have found a treasure among the weeded books headed for the annual book sale...an autographed copy of Johnny Cash's religious novel, "The Man in White." That, along with a signed copy of wife June Carter Cash's autobiography "From the Heart", will be sold at auction on the library's website.

Story from the Star .

When Annette Olney first began volunteering in the library at Manchester Memorial Elementary School, Dwight D. Eisenhower was still in office and Mickey Mantle was playing center field for the Yankees.
Now, after teaching three generations of children the joys of literature, the reading and library tutor is retiring, ending a 49-year stint that has made her a fixture at the school.

''She is the matriarch for the school, the grandmother type," said kindergarten teacher Wendy Manninen.
The Boston Globe has more.

Anonymous Patron writes "Just how devoted to your library are your Friends? Diane Davis has you beat. MercuryNews.com Reports [lisnews@gmail.com, lisnews1] that she sold the four-bedroom Milpitas home that she lived in for 15 years for $850,000 this week to protest because her city council didn't unanimously support spending money on its library.
Davis herself knows a thing or two about their value: She's president of the Friends of the Milpitas Library and a Milpitas library advisory commissioner.

Out of nine cities in the Santa Clara County library system, the Milpitas was the only one whose council did not unanimously endorse two recent measures to support library funding."