The Lucedale (MS) Public Library will be closed indefinitely after a fire Sunday afternoon left the computer lab damaged and spread soot and ashes over 75 percent of the building.
The blaze apparently started in the computer lab, where one computer was destroyed and the room had heavy smoke damage. No books or other equipment was burned in the recently renovated library. Read More.
A portfolio that historians believe Abraham Lincoln used to carry around official papers was donated Tuesday to the state of Illinois.
Tom Heyser of Maryland, whose parents were housekeepers for Robert Todd Lincoln, the president’s son, gave the briefcase and a dress worn by Mary Todd Lincoln to First Lady Patti Blagojevich at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Read More.
Yahoo plans to start selling Internet domain names Tuesday as part of its expanding services for small businesses. The Sunnyvale-based Internet giant, which already has Web hosting, Web site designs and business e-mail service packages, will now also have a stand-alone domain name product for $9.95 a year to compete against other providers, Register.com, Network Solutions and The Go Daddy Group. Read More.
Two men accused of aiding a Romanian man charged with hacking into the online ordering system of the world’s largest computer equipment distributor pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of mail fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Read More.
A popular children’s reading library slated to close next month for financial reasons may be saved.
Coral Springs, Florida officials have devised a plan that would cover the West Atlantic Library’s operating budget and lease while creating a city-county partnership that would make the library eligible for state grant money, according to Coral Springs Mayor Rhon Ernest-Jones. The city sent the proposal to Broward County Administrator Roger Desjarlais this week. Read More.
On one side of the divide, malicious coders launch an ever-changing variety of viruses, worms and spyware with increasing speed. On the other side, information security experts attempt to create effective barriers. Their task is to prevent the enemy from outflanking existing defenses and exploiting new vulnerabilities. Read More.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been questioning political demonstrators across the country, and in rare cases even subpoenaing them, in an aggressive effort to forestall what officials say could be violent and disruptive protests at the Republican National Convention in New York.
F.B.I. officials are urging agents to canvass their communities for information about planned disruptions aimed at the convention and other coming political events, and they say they have developed a list of people who they think may have information about possible violence. They say the inquiries, which began last month before the Democratic convention in Boston, are focused solely on possible crimes, not on dissent, at major political events. Read More. [requires subscription]
The American Library Association’s (ALA) Annual Conference, June 24–30, in steamy Orlando, drew 19,575 people, including 5,739 exhibitors, the lowest total since Miami in 1994, not counting the SARS-shadowed conference in Toronto last year…
The threat of a dues increase, and attendant fear of membership losses, hovered in the Orlando air. ALA has a revenue problem. It was heard at sessions of the ALA Executive Board and in the reports of the treasurer and the Budget Analysis and Review Committee (BARC) to both the board and the Council. BARC warned that ALA might end the current fiscal year with revenues $1.2 million below budget. The current budget—just under $49 million—could not include the $50,000 to print the ALA Handbook, a much-criticized plan that is likely to be reversed.
Despite her conventional life, Dawn DiVenti, a librarian with a master’s degree, a house and a truck, believes she has a shot at becoming the next Hobo Queen.
The Rockford, IL resident is competing for the title Saturday during the National Hobo Convention, an unconventional, 100-year-old festival in tiny Britt, Iowa.
Each year more than 100 modern hobos, the yuppies and retirees and wanderers, leave their other lives to celebrate and preserve a bit of American history. They serve more than 500 gallons of free mulligan stew. After the candidates give short speeches, the audience chooses the queen and king by applause. Read all about it.
A fire which destroyed the library in Ramsgate (UK) is being treated as arson, Kent Police said on Sunday. Another blaze at the register office just before 1000 BST on Sunday is also being treated as suspicious. Police say it may be linked to the library fire. Thousands of books, several paintings and historic artefacts were lost in the blaze at the Victorian library building which started late on Friday. Read all about it.
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