Academics, ever wonder how much your library is utilized by students and faculty? And how exactly are its resources used?
Even though the survey response rate was not sizeable, you might discover some interesting findings at the Vassar College Library Survey, where this reporter’s son is enrolled as a sophomore (yes, it’s coed now).
The Grand Rapids MI NBC Affiliate reports on the funeral plans for Michigan’s favorite son, President Gerald Ford.
After honors in California and Washington D.C., the body will lie in state at the library and a private service in a church five miles away will follow. Then Ford’s body will be brought back to the museum for the private internment, and then to a grassy area beyond iron gates. The burial area lies north, on the more peaceful side of the museum. 24 Hour News 8 has been told President Ford selected this location himself.
As the agenda for the memorial spans the entire country and nearly a weeks time, here’s a schedule.
One item (not in a jar) per late book, and you’re good. Here’s the story from the Nevada Appeal on how the Dayton Valley Branch library is waiving fees in exchange for food contributions.
Comment below; does your public library offer to waive fees in exchange for food or other contributions? How has it worked?
The Detroit Free Press reports: “At the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library in Ann Arbor, the flags flew at half staff. But the doors were locked as employees scurried to transform the unassuming building from its holiday decor to a library in mourning.
The staff was caught a bit off guard at Ford’s death. They had been kept well aware of his failing health, said library director Elaine Didier, but didn’t think his time was so near.”
Anonymous Patron writes “Ms. Dewey Has A Revealing Past…
I’m sure many of you have heard about and experimented with MSN’s Live.com interactive search engine Ms. Dewey, featuring the incredibly attractive Janina Gavankar in the role of Ms. Dewey who acts as a commentator concerning the search queries being entered. Well, thanks to a post from Matt Cutts, we now know a little bit about the background of the Ms. Gavankar and I can tell you being a search guide was not her first gig.
Anonymous Patron writes “Ms. Dewey Has A Revealing Past…
I’m sure many of you have heard about and experimented with MSN’s Live.com interactive search engine Ms. Dewey, featuring the incredibly attractive Janina Gavankar in the role of Ms. Dewey who acts as a commentator concerning the search queries being entered. Well, thanks to a post from Matt Cutts, we now know a little bit about the background of the Ms. Gavankar and I can tell you being a search guide was not her first gig.
Before becoming the most attractive thing about MSN Search, Gavankar was pleasing crowds using another method — soft-core movies, you know, the ones you find on Cinemax during their late-night viewing schedule. According to Cutts’ post, Ms. Dewey appeared in a movie called Cup Of My Blood, and judging by the screencaps (NSFW) Gavankar is not a believer in the “no nudity” clause so many actresses include in their contracts nowadays.
This revelation certainly adds something to the appeal of good ole Ms. Dewey, now we have the ability to quantify what that appeal is.”
If you’re down under, or heading there next year, you might be able to catch a glimpse of their new TV series, The Librarians. Aussie actress Robyn Butler stars, and her husband Wayne Hope directs.
From The Age …”Libraries, Butler points out, attract all walks of life. Which is not exactly to the liking of Butler’s character Frances O’Brien, head librarian and repressed, passive-aggressive Catholic. Naturally, O’Brien is a little intolerant of her Muslim, Asian and gay patrons. And when her childhood best-friend-turned-drug-dealer (played by Roz Hammond) gets a job as the children’s librarian, chaos ensues.”
Did you happen to check out the Ms. Dewey website yet? If you can’t get enough of the charming librarian…here, from WBUR, Boston’s NPR Station is an interview with Sean Cole who once again comments on the new Microsoft search-engine bot and reveals the name of the actress who does her voice-over.
GSO writes “BBC News reports:
Bets are being taken on whether boy wizard Harry Potter will die in the final instalment of the series — with his arch-enemy the predicted killer.”
Pete writes “Even in the library world, the rise of the machines is inevitable as this Wired story about the Chicago State University shows, “The new library at Chicago State University has one ironclad rule: No students allowed in these stacks; only robots. Every book, CD, and DVD in the school’s $38 million facility is tagged with a radio-frequency ID chip.”
Do you know what the Pratt-Smoot Act was?
It was legislation passed in 1931 that created a National Library Service for the blind and handicapped and this year marks it’s 75th anniversity. It’s essentially known today as the Talking Book Library, a part of the Library of Congress, and here’s more about it’s formation and it’s evolution through the years.
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