LISNews: Librarian News

Michael tells us CBS Reports Anonymous tips lead Bellwood police to arrest a 23-year-old man in the shooting and wounding of a woman and her daughter during a robbery outside a library last week.

search-engines-web.com wrote in with the following Library Journal story:

Librarians at the Clinton-Macomb Public Library, MI, took matters into their own hands when their DVD collection fell prey to a thief who stole more than 1000 discs. Following a tip from a patron who noticed the library's label on several used DVDs for sale at a local Gamestop store, staffers scoured eight other area Gamestops and a pawn shop, unearthing more than 300 missing titles. They shared their find with the police, who received the stores' cooperation to view security tapes.

See also
mdoneil's recent journal entry for a similar tale of "Thwart not the Librarian."

Anonymous Patron writes "You'll need to login to read this Odd Spartanburg Herald-Journal [You can use none@example.com and none as the password].A man posing as an employee of the Spartanburg County Headquarters Library nearly scammed a local elderly couple out of $85 over the weekend.

The couple's oldest daughter, Anna Wing, said her 84-year-old father received a phone call this weekend from a man who said he owed an $85 late fee on a copy of "Moby Dick."

Wing's father and 79-year-old mother don't get out much, she said.

"He hasn't used his (library) card in 12 years," Wing said of her father, who she requested not be identified.
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The South London Press Reports Burglars plundered 22 computers worth £10,000 from the Tate Library, in Streatham High Road.

Lambeth council has already replaced the stolen PCs with new ones at a cost of £10,000.

Detectives from Streatham CID are investigating the break-in which happened on Friday night.

A council spokeswoman said that Streatham Library staff were "disgusted" by the burglary.