Via RT@shannonmmiller (Shannon Miller of the Van Meter, IA Library), check out Order in the Library…an online game using the Dewey Decimal system.
There are three games you can play; the sorting game, the shelving game and the reordering game. There’s even a Spanish version. Go to it!
For four years, Sara Wingate Gray has been traveling the globe carrying a library of “lost and forgotten poetry” with her wherever she goes, and this week she is bringing the books to Jamaica Plain.
Through a character known as “the itinerant poetry librarian” she has devoted most of her days to finding bars, parks, pizza parlors and coffee shops in diverse locales—Romania, Washington DC, the Czech Republic, San Francisco—where she can set up shop.
This week, Wingate Gray’s traveling library is open in the Greater Boston Area, including two upcoming dates in Jamaica Plain. On Wed., Sept. 1 she will be at Forest Hills Cemetery from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. On Friday, Sept. 3, she will be at the Brendan Behan Pub 378 Centre St. from 4p.m. to 7 p.m.
The selections at Forest Hills will be focused on the theme of “dead poets,” Wingate Gray told the Gazette in an Aug. 31 interview at the Jamaica Plain Gazette offices. She said she is not sure what the theme of the Behan library will be, “I can guess it will have something to do with drunkenness and rock & roll,” she said.
The poetry library “is a real library,” Wingate Gray said. “The point is to remind people of the importance of free public libraries.” For updates, including upcoming library dates, see http://twitter.com/librarian.
In March of 1969, Joseph Pannell repeatedly shot a (correction) Chicago beat cop, Terrence Knox; three bullets hit Knox resulting in permanent damage to his arm. Knox is now asking that authorities not let Pannell back into Canada where his family resides.
Pannell was arrested and faced charges but skipped bail in 1973 and spent the next 31 years hiding out under an assumed name in Canada. Going by the name Douglas Gary Freeman, Pannell married a Canadian woman, raised four children and worked as a librarian for many years in Toronto.
A check of a fingerprint database led Chicago police to Pannell’s Canadian home in 2004. Pannell fought extradition for several years before agreeing to a plea bargain that saw him spend 30 days in prison, pay a $250,00 fine to a Chicago charity and spend two years on probation. With his probation now up, Pannell asked to return to Canada.
But the union representing the workers at the Toronto Public Library where Pannell was employed asked that their former colleague be allowed back into Canada. Mr. Pannell is a former member of the Black Panthers.
“Mr. Freeman poses no threat to anyone in Canada, and the United States government has posed no objection to his returning to Canada,” wrote union local president Brendan Haley. “We are requesting that you exercise your discretion in this matter, on humanitarian and compassionate grounds, to grant Gary Freeman a temporary resident permit that will allow him to be reunited with his Canadian wife and children.”
In March of 1969, Joseph Pannell repeatedly shot a (correction) Chicago beat cop, Terrence Knox; three bullets hit Knox resulting in permanent damage to his arm. Knox is now asking that authorities not let Pannell back into Canada where his family resides.
Pannell was arrested and faced charges but skipped bail in 1973 and spent the next 31 years hiding out under an assumed name in Canada. Going by the name Douglas Gary Freeman, Pannell married a Canadian woman, raised four children and worked as a librarian for many years in Toronto.
A check of a fingerprint database led Chicago police to Pannell’s Canadian home in 2004. Pannell fought extradition for several years before agreeing to a plea bargain that saw him spend 30 days in prison, pay a $250,00 fine to a Chicago charity and spend two years on probation. With his probation now up, Pannell asked to return to Canada.
But the union representing the workers at the Toronto Public Library where Pannell was employed asked that their former colleague be allowed back into Canada. Mr. Pannell is a former member of the Black Panthers.
“Mr. Freeman poses no threat to anyone in Canada, and the United States government has posed no objection to his returning to Canada,” wrote union local president Brendan Haley. “We are requesting that you exercise your discretion in this matter, on humanitarian and compassionate grounds, to grant Gary Freeman a temporary resident permit that will allow him to be reunited with his Canadian wife and children.”
Toronto Sun reports.
Did you enjoy the last Ron Charles video book review? Here’s the new one…on Jonathan Franzen’s new and highly anticipated title, Freedom.
Washington Post review.
The library was established by Bucks County PA farmers who combined their finances to order books from Philadelphia and from England.
Steeped in history, the private Newtown Library was founded on Aug. 9, 1760. Ben Franklin would be proud of the library. In fact, his picture is the focal point of the library’s historic signboard.
Sunday September 12 will mark the grand finale event of the Newtown Library Company’s 250th anniversary celebration. Music will waft through the air and historic characters will mingle with the crowd.
“It’s going to be an old-fashioned Sunday afternoon event,” said Karolyn Fisher, librarian of the Newtown Library Company.
Dubbed the “250th Birthday Bash,” the event will feature appearances by several historical figures, including William Penn, Ben Franklin, Edward Hicks and Beulah Twining. Bucks Local News.
Walt Crawford is looking for a few more good blogs….
On Monday afternoon, Jai Cha walked out of the Barnes & Noble at 66th Street and Broadway in Manhattan as he does nearly every week — without a book.
“I’m just killing time,” said Mr. Cha, a 30-year-old lawyer, his hands stuffed deep in his pockets. “I’ve been coming here to read Bill Simmons’s ‘Book of Basketball,’ about a chapter at a time.”
He might have to hurry. Barnes & Noble announced on Monday that at the end of January it would close the store, a four-story space across the street from Lincoln Center that has been a neighborhood landmark since it opened nearly 15 years ago.
Hawaii…or Illinois? (some might suggest elsewhere…)
The Honolulu Star Advertiser reports that Hawaii has an early lead in pitching the islands as the future home of President Barack Obama’s library, museum and think tank. However yet another Illinois-Hawaii smack-down is brewing over where it will actually end up.
The Hawaii Legislature has sent the White House a joint resolution that it passed last session urging Obama to pick Hawaii as the site for his library. Officials at the University of Hawaii are creating working groups in the next few weeks that will study a wide variety of issues, including finding a suitable site for the complex, designing it, deciding how to best manage the archives, designing museum exhibits and learning how best to create a related academic program and research center.
And on Sunday a Hawaii delegation led by Reed Dasenbrock, UH vice chancellor for academic affairs, will fly to Washington, D.C., to meet with the head of the presidential library division of the National Archives and to Little Rock, Ark., to meet with the director of the Clinton Presidential Center and the Clinton Foundation.
Change of pace from the more frequent ‘death of print’ stories here on LISNews.
This one’s about the birth of print; a discussion of the newly published book by Andrew Pettegree, “The Book in the Renaissance” with Tom Scocca of Slate and the Boston Globe.
In the beginning, before there was such a thing as a Gutenberg Bible, Johannes Gutenberg laid out his rows of metal type and brushed them with ink and, using the mechanism that would change the world, produced an ordinary little schoolbook. It was probably an edition of a fourth-century grammar text by Aelius Donatus, some 28 pages long. Only a few fragments of the printed sheets survive, because no one thought the book was worth keeping.
“Now had he kept to that, doing grammars…it probably would all have been well,” said Andrew Pettegree, a professor of modern history at the University of St. Andrews and author of “The Book in the Renaissance,” the story of the birth of print. Instead, Gutenberg was bent on making a grand statement, an edition of Scripture that would cost half as much as a house and would live through the ages. In the end, struggling for capital to support the Bible project, Gutenberg was forced out of his own print shop by his business partner, Johann Fust.
The article continues in a question and answer format here.
Freed from their desks, reference librarians at the Orland Park IL Public Library have taken to the aisles to help patrons find the answers they need.
“We’re out there looking for them,” said Diane Srebro, assistant head of adult services. She asks a patron if he needs help as she makes the rounds with a HP Tablet as part of the new ‘Ask Me’ campaign.
The program began in the spring to enhance customer service for library patrons.
Armed with laptop computers and sporting “Ask Me” buttons, the librarians are fielding about 200 questions a month from the floor, Srebro said. All told, the reference desk averages about 3,000 reference questions a month.
“Technology has freed us from the reference desk,” Srebro said. “It’s part of our strategic plan for the adult services area.” Southtown Star.
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