LISNews: Librarian News

Mock Turtle writes "The Tennessean has a nice write-up recognizing the efforts of volunteer Elaine Hackerman, who has logged over 800 hours bringing order to chaos in the public-access libraries of Nashville CARES (an AIDS service agency) and the local Rape & Sexual Abuse Center."

In case they didn't have enough to worry about, librarians at The Salem OR public library twice caught "notorious" sex offender Larry Lee Edwards looking at Internet pornography.
Librarians first caught Edwards using public computers to look up pornography sites Thursday and ordered him out of the building. Such activity is prohibited under library rules.

Edwards returned the next day and again began viewing Internet pornography. The librarians saw him and called police.

He was not charged with a crime, Salem Detective Craig Stoelk said. Edwards has no probation to violate; he served all of his time for his sex offenses and no longer is under any sort of post-prison supervision.

However, the infraction did result in a ban from the library, city parks and city parking structures.

An Odd Little Story out of Syracuse, NY, on Thomas Dydyk.
He has reached an agreement with prosecutors that allowed him to plead guilty to a reduced misdemeanor charge of petit larceny after selling a century-old painting by John Dodgson Barrow for $200 at a garage sale. He had stolen the valuable painting from a library storage room. Dydyk sold the painting to the owner of a Skaneateles antiques shop, who recognized it as a valuable Barrow work.

Charles Davis writes:"from
The Telegraph:

Sir Wilfred Thesiger, who died on Sunday aged 93,
was the quintessential English explorer, and the last and greatest of that small band of travellers who sought out the secrets of the desert in the years before Arabia was transformed forever by the oil beneath her sands.
Paradoxically, one modern invention gave Thesiger
an edge over predecessors such as Richard Burton
and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - the camera. Thesiger
taught himself to become an excellent photographer
and perhaps his most enduring legacy will prove to
be his vast photographic record (willed to the
Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford) of ancient races and
ways of life since extinguished within a generation"
[I heard Paul Theroux eulogizing Thesiger on All Things Considered yesterday. -Karl]