In rural College Station, Texas, residents fought Texas A&M University over plans to move a pig farm to make way for the George H.W. Bush presidential library.
Residents in Atlanta tied themselves to trees and lay down in front of bulldozers to stop the city from building a two-lane highway through a public park leading to President Jimmy Carter’s library.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-obama-library-land-met-0210-20150210-story.html#page=1
Vint Cerf, a “father of the internet”, says he is worried that all the images and documents we have been saving on computers will eventually be lost.
Currently a Google vice-president, he believes this could occur as hardware and software become obsolete.
He fears that future generations will have little or no record of the 21st Century as we enter what he describes as a “digital Dark Age”.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31450389
Be on the lookout says CNN:
The suspect is furry. Only a couple of feet long. Two big teeth. And, it would seem, he has it in for the people of the American Northeast. He’s Punxsutawney Phil, and he’s a wanted groundhog, according to police in Merrimack, New Hampshire.
Fed up with the more than 4 feet of snow their region has gotten this winter, police issued a tongue-in-cheek arrest warrant for the notorious whistlepig.
“We have received several complaints from the public that this little varmint is held up in a hole, warm and toasty,” the department posted on its Facebook page. “He told several people that Winter would last 6 more weeks, however he failed to disclose that it would consist of mountains of snow!
“If you see him, do not approach him as he is armed and dangerous,” the department said. “Call Merrimack Police, we will certainly take him into custody!”
Phil isn’t the only groundhog with a record this year. Wisconsin’s version of Phil, Jimmy, bit the mayor of Sun Prairie this month, according to CNN affiliate WISC.
The chain and lock can come off Ricky and Teresa Edgertons’ Little Free Library.
The Shreveport City Council approved an amended resolution Tuesday temporarily legalizing all book exchange boxes in the city until new zoning laws can be adopted to allow them. The process could take up to two months at most.
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2015/02/10/little-free-libraries-vote-today/23171529/
Forget “What’s in your wallet?” How about what was in the archives of the municipality of Sandwich that everyone seemed to miss until last December?
Here’s the story via the New York Times:
A tattered copy of the Magna Carta has been discovered in the archives of the municipality of Sandwich, a sleepy seaside town in eastern England, according to the local government and a historian at the University of East Anglia.
News of the find comes just as the charter, often regarded as England’s first step towards civil rights, marks its 800th anniversary. Events have been scheduled across the country to mark the occasion, including a recent reunion of the four surviving copies of the original version, issued in 1215, in London this month. Between 1215 and 1300, other copies of the Magna Carta were marked with a royal seal, only two dozen of which are known to exist.
The copy found in Sandwich, in the county of Kent, dates to 1300, when King Edward I issued the final version of the charter marked with such a seal. The original version signed in 1215 was issued by King John, an unpopular ruler under pressure to check his own power in the interest of preventing civil war. The document affirms the king as subject to the law like any other citizen.
Reuters reports:
Everyone thought he was practically penniless, but he managed to save up $8 million dollars and bequeathed it in his will.
Perhaps the only clue that Ronald Read, a Vermont gas station attendant and janitor who died last year at age 92, had been quietly amassing an $8 million fortune was his habit of reading the Wall Street Journal, his friends and family say.
It was not until last week that the residents of Brattleboro would discover Read’s little secret. That’s when the local library and hospital received the bulk of his estate, built up over the years with savvy stock picks.”Investing and cutting wood, he was good at both of them,” his lawyer Laurie Rowell said on Wednesday, noting that he read the Journal every day. Most of those who knew Read, described as a frugal and extremely private person, were aware that he could handle an axe. But next to no one knew how well he was handling his financial portfolio.
If you’re reading this you’re seeing LISNews on a new server and a new version of Drupal.
I finally spent some time moving LISNews from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 this weekend… what a mess that was! Long story short, the Drupal DB that runs LISNews was a total disaster and was almost unusable.
There’s some pretty important things still missing, like all the old podcasts and images, but I’ll have those moved soon.
If you spot anything missing or broken or something like:
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Library trades users’ privacy for slick search capability [PDF Link To Central City Extra]
BiblioCommons’ critics insist, however, that that increased functionality comes at a steep price: Some aspects of
the site open the door to users’ personal data being turned over to a foreign firm to do with as it chooses, they say. The Library Commission encouraged this jaundiced view when it killed one three-letter word from its privacy
policy that had been in place since 2004.
http://www.wired.com/2015/02/whats-up-with-cats-and-boxes/
Take heart feline enthusiasts. Your cat’s continued indifference toward her new Deluxe Scratch DJ Deck may be disappointing, but there is an object that’s pretty much guaranteed to pique her interest. That object, as the Internet has so thoroughly documented, is a box. Any box, really. Big boxes, small boxes, irregularly shaped boxes—it doesn’t matter. Place one on the ground, a chair, or a bookshelf and watch as Admiral Snuggles quickly commandeers it.
Hiring Librarians, the blog about hiring librarians, has posted initial results from a new survey that attempts to determine The State of the Library Job Market.
Rather than 200+ applicants for each position, the majority of respondents report a more sedate 25 or fewer hopeful candidates. This and other results at: : http://hiringlibrarians.com/2015/01/17/stats-and-graphs-state-of-the-library-job-market/
If you’re someone who hires librarians and you’d like to take the survey yourself: http://tinyurl.com/hiringlibjobmarketsurvey
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