LISNews: Librarian News

The Reader's Shop writes "Zwire Reports
Barbara Cangiano received the prestigious New York Times Librarian of the Year award for her dedication and humble service to her community. Ms. Cangiano is head of the reference department at the Blackstone Memorial Library."

Cortez writes "In Southern public libraries the UDC is a very vocal and important means of support for genealogy and local history programs.
"But in Odom's case, she is held in highest esteem because she is a living, or ''real,'' daughter of the Confederacy, one of only a handful still alive in Tennessee. Her father, Peter Vertrees, served with the 6th Kentucky Infantry from 1861 to 1865, where he witnessed the ravages of war at Shiloh and Vicksburg, among other engagements. But there's something else that separates the new nonagenarian from those sending birthday wishes.
Lillie Harding Vertrees Odom is black."
More At tennessean.com"

Will Eisner, innovator of an increasingly popular literary format, the graphic novel, died yesterday at the age of 87. His most well-known creation was "The Spirit", a hero with no superpowers. Obit here.

Eisner was born in New York on March 6, 1917, published his first comic in 1936 in a publication called "Wow, What a Magazine!" There, he met Jerry Iger, and together they created a comic book outfit that employed, among other artists, Bob Kane, the creator of Batman, and Jack Kirby, one of the creators of the Fantastic Four and several other Marvel Comics heroes. Eisner also had the bad fortune of turning down a comic called Superman by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

For more information on contemporary graphic novels, here's a
website by librarian Steve Roman of the DeKalb (IL)Public Library.

Anonymous Patron writes "The Harvard Crimson Online reports on a man arrested ejected from the Harvard Law School Library (HLS). The patron, Mr. Richard Max Strahan had often used the Federal Depository Library at the HLS. HLS requires non-Harvard depository users to register and Mr. Strahan was neither registered, or in the depository area when he was arrested. "

Daniel adds: The Federal Depository Library Program has offered some guidance on balancing the requirements of free access to depository materials and the particular mission of a given library. Among the measures allowed is patron registration.