Barry H. Landau, the once-esteemed collector of presidential memorabilia, was sentenced seven years in federal prison Wednesday for stealing thousands of historic documents from archives and libraries in Baltimore and up the East Coast.
The 64-year-old was also ordered to pay roughly $46,000 in restitution. No sentencing date is yet set for his 25-year-old accomplice, Jason James Savedoff, who, like Landau, has pleaded guilty to theft of major artwork and conspiracy charges.
It’s summer, it’s a Friday, why not get way over-invested in arguing over a list?
The Library of Congress, the world’s largest repository of knowledge and information, began a multiyear “Celebration of the Book” with an exhibition on “Books That Shaped America.” The initial books in the exhibition are displayed below.
“This list is a starting point,” said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. “It is not a register of the ‘best’ American books – although many of them fit that description. Rather, the list is intended to spark a national conversation on books written by Americans that have influenced our lives, whether they appear on this initial list or not.”
My initial reactions:
If something is where it’s supposed to be, can you still call it a “discovery”? Suzanne Fischer, in the Atlantic, says “no.”
It’s an interesting discussion about cataloging archival material and the work that is, by necessity, still on the shoulders of researchers, spurred by the recent reporting of the “discovery” of a medical report filed by Charles Leale, the first doctor on the scene when Abraham Lincoln was fatally shot at the Ford Theater.
In the case of the recent press on the Leale report, the report had not yet been catalogued, cutting off discovery for ordinary researchers searching with finding aids and online catalogues. It’s very possible, of course, with the volume of material that archives hold, for a particular professional to not know exactly what the repository holds. This is because archivists catalogue not at “item level,” a description of every piece of paper, which would take millennia, but at “collection level,” a description of the shape of the collection, who owned it, and what kinds of things it contains. With the volume of materials, some collections may be undescribed or even described wrongly.
On Wednesday (June 6), at the annual BookExpo America, Library Journal invited several librarians to share their picks for good new reads:
Moderated by Barbara Genco, Library Journal’s Manager of Special Projects, and featuring six librarian/tastemakers—Wendy Bartlett (Cuyahoga County Public Library, OH), Robin Beerbower (Salem Public Library, OR), Douglas Lord (LJ’s “Book for Dudes” columnist), Alene Moroni (King County Public Library, WA), Kaite Mediatore Stover (Kansas City Public Library, MO), and Miriam Tuliao (NYPL)—the fourth annual Librarian Shout ’n Share offered audience members nearly 100 titles to ponder.
Full List, have your GoodReads/spreadsheet/back of envelope ready.
Twitter’s changed their primary logo and discarded several alternate versions of their logo at the same time. With this change we get updated graphics downloads and usage guidelines.
The gist:
Do:
- Use our official, unmodified Twitter bird to represent our brand.
- Make sure the bird faces right.
- Allow for at least 150% buffer space around the bird.
Don’t:
- Use speech bubbles or words around the bird.
- Rotate or change the direction of the bird.
- Animate the bird.
- Duplicate the bird.
- Change the color of the bird.
- Use any other marks or logos to represent our brand.
The Wall Street Journal has some humorous commentary on the old bird and the new.
So, what do you think? My library currently uses the “lower case T” old Twitter logo on our homepage and throughout our site – does yours? Will you change it to “Larry 2.0”?
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