All hopes for endless supplies of Guinness in public libraries are dashed. Read this story from Yahoo UK.
Malcolm McLaren, the Sex Pistols pop guru who was campaigning to become mayor of London, is to pull out of the race and back another candidate, the Independent newspaper has reported.
McLaren, whose best-publicised policies were to legalise brothels and cannabis and install bars to serve alcohol in libraries, will announce next week that he is standing aside to support independent candidate Ken Livingstone, the paper said.
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Couple to Make Home in Old Ralston Library
The Omaha World-Herald has this interesting story about a couple who have decided to live in an old library. Of course many of us already feel like we live in an old library.
If atmosphere has anything to do with it, Orhan and Robin Seran\’s firstborn sure will like to read.
The child is due in September, and on Sunday Orhan Seran bought the former Ralston library at an auction for $125,000. The couple will convert the airy, two-story building into a residence.
A Ralston native who now lives with his wife outside Council Bluffs, Seran, 35, was a frequent visitor to the old building at 7900 Park Lane as a youngster.
The web helps magazine industry
Businessweek.com has a suprising story on the growth of magazine readers thanks to the web. It seems the web is helping the magazine business, not hurting it.
\”The Internet, rather than stealing readers from the printed page, may turn out to be the best thing to happen to magazines since the printing press\”
Businessweek.com has a suprising story on the growth of magazine readers thanks to the web. It seems the web is helping the magazine business, not hurting it.
\”The Internet, rather than stealing readers from the printed page, may turn out to be the best thing to happen to magazines since the printing press\”
Is the Net Helping Magazines Grab More Readers?
It\’s providing a new platform for building brand identity — the be-all and end-all of reader loyalty
The Internet, rather than stealing readers from the printed page, may turn out to be the best thing to happen to magazines since the printing press, at least according to Nina Link, the new president of the Magazine Publishers of America. She argued in a speech on Mar. 14 to The Breakfast Club, a monthly gathering of New York City professionals, that the Web gives magazines another tool to build strong brands.
More important, she said, many traditional publications are now key players on the Net, leveraging their assets and moving across different platforms. Most are creating new alliances and e-commerce revenue sources. She cited Martha Stewart as an example of creating a brand across various media, but \”the content, the attitude, the style, and the voice are all the magazine,\” said Link
ATTENTION GRABBER. Readers love their magazines, but it\’s clear that the Internet has become an increasingly potent information source. The study found that 90% of consumers say they are spending as much or more time on the Internet, while 75% said the same for cable TV. Only 62% were watching as much or more network TV news. When asked which media grabbed their \”full attention\” when in use, 95% said the Internet, 90% said the same for magazines, and 60% said cable or network TV.
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Art available from library, but program is in doubt
Read this story Here. From the South Bend Tribune.
Want the \”Mona Lisa\” in your kitchen or an Ansel Adams
photo in your den? Framed art is again available for
borrowing at the St. Joseph County Public Library in
downtown South Bend.
Read this story Here. From the South Bend Tribune.
Want the \”Mona Lisa\” in your kitchen or an Ansel Adams
photo in your den? Framed art is again available for
borrowing at the St. Joseph County Public Library in
downtown South Bend.
The collection is located temporarily on the lower level of
the library. It had to be moved from its longtime
third-floor location recently when the audio-visual area
was relocated for a major renovation.
The library board is considering whether to discontinue the artwork-lending program, which has been in existence for more than 20 years.
Prints can be checked out for six weeks. Patrons can borrow up to two prints at a time
Library gets new bookmobile ready for service
Long live the bookmobile! Read this story Here. From the Kalamazoo Gazette.
The Kalamazoo Public Library bookmobile may be back on the road as early as next week.
\”We are loading up the new bookmobile right now,\” said
Terry Lason, head of loan-and-outreach services at the
Kalamazoo Public Library.
Long live the bookmobile! Read this story Here. From the Kalamazoo Gazette.
The Kalamazoo Public Library bookmobile may be back on the road as early as next week.
\”We are loading up the new bookmobile right now,\” said
Terry Lason, head of loan-and-outreach services at the
Kalamazoo Public Library.
Library staffers will hold a party at 2 p.m. March 26 to
celebrate the resumption of bookmobile service with a
$140,000 new vehicle purchased from Farber Speciality
Vehicles in Columbus, Ohio.
It will hold 4,000 items and include a cellular-phone
connection that will link a computer to the library\’s main
patron-and-material database. A second computer in the
vehicle will provide patrons access to basic reference
material.
Bank offers site for new library
Read this story Here. From the Register-Guard.
In a crowd of public officials and business leaders, Eugene Mayor Jim Torrey picked out the one person who could exemplify the purpose of the city\’s first branch library.
Read this story Here. From the Register-Guard.
In a crowd of public officials and business leaders, Eugene Mayor Jim Torrey picked out the one person who could exemplify the purpose of the city\’s first branch library.
He called to the podium 4-year-old Zachary Silva, who bicycled to the former bank building with his mom for Tuesday\’s news conference on the future Bethel library.
Torrey then took off a red-and-white striped hat from Dr. Seuss\’ \”Cat in the Hat\” and placed it on the boy\’s head, telling him the popular children\’s book author would \”live\” in the bank vault, soon to be transformed into a children\’s reading room.
Stony Brooks library near bottom of national list
Read this story Here. From Newsday.
ZONDORA WILSON is a graduate student in sociology at the State University at Stony Brook. But several times a month
she takes the train from Port Jefferson, where she lives, to
Manhattan, where she does her research for her PhD.
Read this story Here. From Newsday.
ZONDORA WILSON is a graduate student in sociology at the State University at Stony Brook. But several times a month
she takes the train from Port Jefferson, where she lives, to
Manhattan, where she does her research for her PhD.
\”The kind of specialized research material I need is not at the Stony Brook library,\” she said. \”It is very frustrating, but I find what I need at the NYU library. The problem is that it\’s three hours on the train and I can\’t take the material out.\”
Wilson\’s complaint is echoed by other graduate students and a number of Stony Brook professors, who say the university
library has fallen well behind in terms of what it has on its stacks — books, research journals, periodicals and a wide range of other materials that university officials concede they have not been acquiring because of long-running budget constraints.
Libraries register gripes over porn
An article on the findings of filtering advocate David Burt. Read this story Here. From the Washington Times.
An Oregon librarian who conducted a nationwide survey found more than 2,000 complaints about pornography in public libraries.
An article on the findings of filtering advocate David Burt. Read this story Here. From the Washington Times.
An Oregon librarian who conducted a nationwide survey found more than 2,000 complaints about pornography in public libraries.These are \”just the tip of the iceberg,\” said David Burt. His report, released yesterday, found 472 reports of children improperly accessing pornography on public library computers.
The American Library Association (ALA) \”refuses to admit that any problem even exists,\” said Mr. Burt, who works in Lake Oswego, Ore., and runs Filtering Facts, a group that promotes the use of software filters on public library computers.
Limestone board says Catcher can stay in libraries
\’The Catcher in the Rye\’ is challenged yet again. Read this story Here From the The Huntsville Times.
In a 4-3 decision, the Limestone County Board of Education voted Monday night to allow the controversial novel \’\’The Catcher in the Rye\’\’ to remain in libraries at the county\’s five high schools.
But the seven-member school board, meeting at East Limestone High School, was told a West Limestone High School parent has asked to have banned the book \’Tell Me Everything,\’ also optional reading for high school students.
\’The Catcher in the Rye\’ is challenged yet again. Read this story Here From the The Huntsville Times.
In a 4-3 decision, the Limestone County Board of Education voted Monday night to allow the controversial novel \’\’The Catcher in the Rye\’\’ to remain in libraries at the county\’s five high schools.
But the seven-member school board, meeting at East Limestone High School, was told a West Limestone High School parent has asked to have banned the book \’Tell Me Everything,\’ also optional reading for high school students.
An Elkmont High School system committee had unanimously recommended keeping \’The Catcher in the Rye\’ on library shelves, and a West Limestone High committee earlier this month voted 4-1 in favor of keeping \’Tell Me Everything,\’ which is also sprinkled with profanities.
The school board is expected to decide on the latter book at its April 10 meeting. \”Catcher,\” by J.D. Salinger, tells of a youth expelled from an exclusive northern prep school just before the Christmas holidays, his escape to New York City and his nervous breakdown. Widely considered a literary
classic, the book has become one of the most challenged books in secondary school libraries across the country.
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