When it comes to overdue books there are apparently no excuses – not even death – at the Harrison Public Library.
That’s the lesson a town woman learned when she was charged a 50-cent late fee while turning in a book that had been checked out by her mother, who died before she could return it herself.
“I was in shock,” Elizabeth Schaper said of the incident at the Bruce Avenue library branch. “This has rocked me to my core.”
The librarian is not a profession you would normally associate with adventurism and entertainment. Locked in his book sanctuary for eternity, his old, worn-out body morphs slowly into a faded page of some medieval manuscript. But not Tadeusz Glowinski. The 63-year-old Polish pensioner contradicts this popular belief every day of his life. To say that he is an ordinary librarian would be a sweeping generalization.
Anonymous Patron writes “While the University of Connecticut’s Law Library was built just 11 years ago at a cost of $24 million, it will now cost $19 million to repair. Leaks and flaws in the granite facade of the five story building were discovered in 2002. Then the repairs were estimated to cost up to $7 million to correct the dangerous situation. The Hartford Courant has more on the story. http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-trustees0926. artsep26,0,5248816.story?track=rss“
This year The Chronicle of Higher Education hosted talks between the University of California librarian Daniel Greenstein and executives at Google and Microsoft, Adam Smith and Danielle Tiedt. The aim? To explore the effect of the digital revolution on books and scholarly journals and the way university libraries are responding.
In at the Brooklyn Public Library: rock concerts, children playing and singing, adults talking.
Out at the Brooklyn Public Library: getting shushed by librarians.
That’s because recently-appointed Brooklyn Public Library Executive Director Dionne Mack-Harvin views libraries as community centers – places where people are expected to talk to each other, not sit in silence.
Mack-Harvin is so determined to end the shushing that librarians from all 60 branches have been attending training sessions to get the word out about her approach.
The public’s free access to many of the most important original documents in world literature held at the British Library is under threat because of funding cuts.
In an article in The Observer, the chief executive of the world-renowned institution today urges the government to protect the centuries-old resource – ‘the mind and memory of the nation’. In a strongly worded public plea to make the preservation of standards at the library a priority in the expected round of spending cuts, Lynne Brindley warns that Britain will soon be left without a resource that it has come to take for granted.
Here’s A Piece On theVietnam Learning Association. They raised enough money to build a library in the middle of the shrimp and rice farms of Ho Phong, between two large schools where a daily flow of children and commerce pass by. The library’s target completion date is January 2008; just one year after their initial visit.
They plan to construct two more learning centers in a year, and then even more the following year, to give access to a library to as many people in southern Vietnam as possible.
A Toronto library worker accused of shooting a white police officer in Chicago almost 40 years ago should not be extradited to face trial in the U.S. because as a black man, he won’t get a fair trail, his lawyer has told three appeal court judges.
How judging a book by its ‘girlie’ cover is putting boys off reading: Attempts by parents and teachers to persuade boys to read more are being undermined by publishers whose insistence on using lurid “Barbie” pink covers on books is turning away young male readers in their droves.
Not your average librarian: Last week, Calvin library staff member Chris Hirt competed in an Ironman competition in Madison, Wis., completing the grueling 140-mile triathlon in under 12 hours and finishing in the top 10 percent out of over 2,000 competitors.
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