It appears that Yahoo! has sold Delicious to a new company led by YouTube’s founders.
April 2011
Sounding Off
The Air Staff at Erie Looking Productions invites readers and listeners to call in their reactions to two recent posts floating around in the realm of the Internet. The first is a post to LISNews talking about CNET Editor-at-Large Brian Cooley’s view of libraries. The second is a post at National Review Online’s The Corner where Christian Schneider takes a fairly dim view of modern public libraries in the United States.
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Sounding Off by Stephen Michael Kellat is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Some startling book statistics
I’ll just go ahead an assume all these numbers are true because they are on the internet…
Some startling book statistics: The following statistics about book publishing and reading were found on www.parapub.com, the Web site of self-publishing guru Dan Poynter. They’ll give you an idea of what you’re up against if you want to write books for a living.
1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
Quote: A library was a place that suggested the most perfect order
The What’s Next: Top Trends Blog points to a really great quote from Happiness by Theodore Zeldin:
A library was a place that suggested the most perfect order, with every book allotted its exact place, and a record kept of its every movement, in and out, and yet a library eventually converts its readers to the view that the world is not in perfect order at all, that most things are increasingly difficult to understand, that no two books ever quite agree; it seemed designed to be a polite hint that the god Chaos is still very present in the universe, unveiling new forms of chaos all the time. ….visitors who spent long enough in her library would become connoisseurs of misunderstandings, not just of authors and readers misunderstanding each other, but of the universal dither, of how people changed their minds about what they meant, of how words were used in ways no one could make sense of….a library was very far from being a place where nothing happened, for in it the world was rearranged a million ways; rigidities dissolved, and reformed and dissolved again; a library was a great mountain of lies as well of truth.
East Texas Librarian Robbed at Gunpoint
For a jar that contained less than $100.00 —
DAINGERFIELD, TX (KLTV) : An East Texas woman was robbed at gun point in the Daingerfield Public Library just after 9:00 am Monday morning. Police have arrested a a 19 year-old on an aggravated robbery charge.
The suspect entered the library shortly after it opened and requested to use a computer. Earlene Walton was working and agreed to sign him in and get him all situated, since he did not have a library card.
The suspect told Walton that he had forgotten something and left the building. When he returned, he pulled out a gun. Within minutes, the suspect had fled with a jar that friends of the library used to collect donations.
In Elite Library Archives, a Dispute Over a Trove
In Elite Library Archives, a Dispute Over a Trove
In a move that has turned scholarly heads, Paul Brodeur, a former investigative reporter for The New Yorker, who donated thousands of pages of his work to the library, is demanding that the papers be returned. He claims that an institution renowned for its careful stewardship of historical documents has badly mishandled his.
The charges are roiling the genteel world of research archivists, who usually toil in dust-jacket obscurity, and inciting a lively debate about which pieces of the past are worth preserving.
It’s Three PM, and Time for the Security Guards
RUSSIAVILLE – Security officers will be returning to the Kokomo-Howard County Public Library.
From the Kokomo (IN) Tribune: The board of trustees Monday voted to spend $9,450 for the remainder of the year to either hire off-duty police officers to provide security or contract with a private security company.
Charles Joray, executive director of the library, said there has been an increase in the number of “incidents” reported by staff through the first three months of 2011. He said there were a total of 70 incidents last year – and 68 reported during the first three months of this year.
An incident was defined as a confrontation between a staff member and library patron about behavior in the library.
“When there were off-duty police officers, the number of incidents went down,” Joray said. “The staff feels intimidated by the patrons.”
Joray recommended hiring officers to work 15 hours per week at $18 per hour.
The hours worked by the security officers will be after school is dismissed each day. That is when most of the incidents are taking place, Joray said.
Zombie Guide to Miller Library
Follow the link to enjoy our finished Zombie Guide to Miller Library! There is also a link on the main menu of the library website. Let us know what you think on our facebook page.
The print version will be available this fall, so get ready for that, as well.
NY Post Shocked To Learn People Look At Boobies In The Library
City libraries say ‘checking out’ porn protected by First Amendment:
Approached by The Post, the dirty old man skulked away, saying, “I don’t want to talk to you. Leave me alone.” Under US law, all libraries that take federal funding only must install filters on publicly used computers to block content containing illegal obscenity and child pornography, and New York City officials say they comply to the letter.
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