D’oh!
Library officials on Wednesday suspended the system’s assistant security director, without pay following allegations he fitted his white SUV with dashboard lights and stopped a 2005 Lexus going 80 mph on the Lodge Freeway near Wyoming on Oct. 6.
Three problems: That’s miles away from any library; security guards can’t issue citations, and the motorist the guard allegedly stopped and asked for ID was Detroit Police Officer.
City and county officials are required to provide space for the library and fund its operation, but a new location has not been secured.
Former State Bar President Jon Streeter is among more than 700 lawyers, legal groups, students, judges and others who sent a letter in May urging Mayor Ed Lee and county supervisors to find a new home for the library
But perhaps there is a “thinkplace” after all: the library.
It’s the traditional intersection of huge amounts of information with the silence that enables its assimilation into our minds and values and imaginations. And its shepherded by knowing, caring librarians who can understand where we’re trying to go and point out the most enjoyable paths.
No doubt the “cloud” will continue to rain down information on us in torrents. But, in a world without libraries, and short on silence, much of it may just wash over us to vanish in the sands of noise.
Why I’m abetting a rogue translation of my novel
“Of course, I wish one of Russia’s two major ebook publishers had given me a couple thousand dollars for the rights, but neither did. Like many novelists I know, I’m just happy to have people reading my work, whether they’re paying me for it or not. I’m also heartened that Russians care enough about reading to sustain a robust literary black market. In the U.S., you get the feeling that hardly anyone is creating pirated ebooks because—well, who’d buy such a thing?”
Turns Out When Random House Said Libraries ‘Own’ Their Ebooks, It Meant, ‘No, They Don’t Own Them’
“That means they don’t want to worry about having the company they bought their books from suddenly lock them out of their collection for reasons they won’t explain. It means they want to be able to move those ebooks from platform to platform without permission. It means they want to be able to lend those ebooks to a friend. Some smaller publishers get this, provide DRM free ebooks, and make it easy for this to happen. Random House, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to understand the issue at all.”
We are shifting from content ownership by individual libraries to joint provision of services on a larger scale, says Stephen Barr… “This change was one which the participants felt that librarians have already embraced and see as an increasingly important role in the future, but it is also one which calls for different practices and perspectives.”
It’s Genre. Not That There’s Anything Wrong With It! Read more
“What I’m trying to say is that “genre” is not a bad word, although perhaps the better word for novels that taxonomically register as genre is simply “commercial.” Born to sell, these novels stick to the trite-and-true, relying on stock characters whose thoughts spool out in Lifetime platitudes. There will be exceptions, as there are in every field, but, for the most part, the standard genre or commercial novel isn’t going to break the sea frozen inside us. If this sounds condescending, so be it. Commercial novels, in general, whether they’re thrillers or romance or science fiction, employ language that is at best undistinguished and at worst characterized by a jejune mentality and a tendency to state the obvious. Which is not to say that some literary novels, as more than a few readers pointed out to me, do not contain a surfeit of decorative description, elaborate psychologizing, and gleams of self-conscious irony. To which I say: so what? “
From NBC Technology:
“Two weeks ago my Kindle started showing stripes on the screen and I contacted Amazon support,” Linn Jordet Nygaard told NBC News. “Someone immediately found the Kindle in the system and told me they would replace it free of charge. They could only ship the replacement to UK because it was originally purchased there, and I told them I would find an address the next day. (I live in Norway, but have a friend who lives in London.)”
Nygaard was pleased with Amazon’s prompt service, she told us, even though this was her second Kindle to fall victim to “stripes” on the ePaper screen.
But when Nygaard attempted to log into her Amazon account the next day, her account was suspended — and with it access to her library of 43 books. More from NBC Technology.
And They Were Hiring Last Year!… What’s the Wine Library?
•A special service and collection of the Sonoma County Library, the collection comprising 5,000 books on wine and related subjects, subscriptions and backfiles to over 80 wine-related periodicals.
•Located in the: Healdsburg Regional Library, 139 Piper St. (corner of Piper and Center), Healdsburg, Telephone 707-433-3772; Fax 707-433-7946.
•Wine Librarian Jon Haupt and the other professionals at the Healdsburg Library will be happy to get you the right article, bibliographic reference, photograph or piece of wine information. Contact them at the above numbers or send e-mail to: [email protected]
•A Business and Technical Library for the Sonoma County Wine Industry which helps fund it.
•An Historical Archive of Wine History worldwide, with a special emphasis on the rich history of wine in Sonoma County.
•Article on the Sonoma County Wine Library from the Bohemian.
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