Gulf News: Abu Dhabi: In a city where development projects are announced almost every other week, one striking aspect is the lack of sufficient public libraries.
Abu Dhabi has only one public library to cater to its book lovers. The National Library, within the Cultural Foundation, remains the only public library in the city.
Speaking to Gulf News, Juma Al Qubaisi, the Director of the National Library, said the number of visitors to the library has increased over the past years.
New From New Orleans: If tears could have washed away the awful mess, it would have been cleaned up the first day. Officials didn’t have much time to cry over what was lost, however. They knew that as soon as New Orleans dried out and people were allowed to return, they’d want library services. They’d need to have access to reference materials to answer a million questions about cleaning up mold, about finding a job, about applying for aid and what programs were available and from whom. They’d want to use public computers to send e-mails, to try to get a FEMA trailer or contact their insurance company. They’d want to search online for missing friends and relatives. The library had to serve patrons with its remaining branches.
TheStreet.com Staff Reporter Annika Mengisen Takes A Look Inside [Link fixed, thanks Steven M. Cohen] the time-tested resource that’s been hailed ever since the ancient Egyptians and Greeks: the library. “They never just answered my initial questions, but kept trying to find out more about what I was trying to do at every stage of my search,” says Pamela Grace, owner of BioSoftmosis, Inc., of the librarians at SIBL who taught her the key differences between industry and market research, and then exposed her to the incredible print and online resources available there.
Proposed amendments to the Film and Publications Act of 1996 could have severe censorship consequences for librarians, writers, artists, academics and those in the publishing industry.
Freedom of Expression Director Jane Duncan announced this at the World Library and Information Congress in Durban on Wednesday.
Duncan said that these sectors could be subjected to the same sort of prepublication censorship that the media and the South African National Editors’ Forum were opposing.
Elizabeth Davies Says school is a much different place for today’s students than it was for us Generation Xers. She runs through a “then and now” list. “‘Despite all those differences, there is one thing that looks all too familiar when I see school kids now: the fashion.
The oversized tops, leggings under skirts, ballet flats and colored denim jeans that you see in today’s classrooms could have been taken from my closet 20 years ago.
It’s ironic that the fashion statement seems to be the same. After all, that’s the one thing I would just as soon forget.”
Over at The Huffington Post Carol Hoenig says there are many reasons why people don’t read as they once did. The major reason is that there is a feast for the eyes without the need for settling down and focusing on the written word.
Check out the attractive graphic for the Fifth International Conference on the Book, which will be held in Madrid Spain, October 20-22, 2007.
This is a conference for any participant in the world of books: authors, publishers, printers, librarians, IT specialists, book retailers, editors, literacy educators and academic researchers. All are encouraged to register and attend.
Participants are also welcome to submit a presentation proposal either for a 30-minute paper, 60-minute workshop, a jointly presented 90-minute colloquium session. (Check out the website for additional details).
Conference organizers are the Government of Spain, Ministry of Culture and Common Ground.
Two New York inmates challenging a ban on some religious books in chapel libraries at U.S. prisons are trying to take the fight nationwide, asking that their lawsuit be given class action status so it can benefit thousands of others behind bars.
Moshe Milstein, an Orthodox Jew, and John J. Okon, a Protestant, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Tuesday. They withdrew a similar lawsuit two months ago after a judge said they needed to register complaints with the prison system first.
The former head librarian at Swaney Memorial Library in New Cumberland has entered a plea in two felony charges and now must make restitution.
Jane Mehaffey and her attorney appeared before Chief Judge Martin Gaughan of the First Judicial Circuit Tuesday after reaching a plea agreement with the county prosecutor’s office.
Hancock County Prosecutor James W. Davis Jr., charged that from on or about April 1, 2005, to Sept. 26, 2006, Mehaffey committed the offenses of falsifying accounts, engaging in fraudulent schemes and embezzlement.
A new medical library boasting more than half a mile of shelves has opened at Plymouth’s Derriford Hospital.
Costing 2 Million Pounds, its treasures include documents and records of the Plymouth Medical Society, founded in 1794 and one of the oldest in the country.
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