Several Queens University students have had belonging stolen from libraries across the campus, resulting in the increase in an increase in security. Read the full story in The Journal
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Equipment Damage Stories from the U. of Alaska Circ Desk
stevenb writes
This story isn’t all that exciting – after all it’s fairly common for a circulation desk to experience patrons bashing their equipment pretty regularly – but academic libraries stories from Alaska are anything but common!
From the article: “One woman had slipped on the ice and cracked the screen of a laptop she had checked out.” Well, maybe they do have some unique library equipment problems in Alaska. Read the story
here.
Using the Diary of Anne Frank to teach hate
moyergirl writes:
North Korea is using Anne Frank’s diary not to teach how Anne suffered at the hands of the German Nazis, but to warn the students how they could suffer at the hands of those they call “American Nazis.” Correspondent Mike Wallace reports.
Libraries for teen mothers
North Kansas City High School provides a Teen Mothers Program through a partnership with First Baptist Church. “The Hive” daycare for the children of the teen moms participates once a month in story time at the public library.
The partnership continues the city’s drive to tie community and schools together by further cementing the link between them and the children of these students. It attempts to help these young mothers develop an age-appropriate library for their children. Read more.
Libraries and privacy
It’s tough being under age 18. There’s no privacy.
That’s just the way it is–and should be if it isn’t–when raising a child. Parents should know what their child is doing, who their child is hanging out with, what their child is reading. It’s that last one, though, that has drawn a bit of attention lately in the Legislature. Read the full story reported by news-miner.
More books equal better brains
Studies show that FCAT scores up at schools with good libraries.
Good media centers mean better scores on the FCAT, according to a recent study. And yet media specialists are often overworked and inadequately compensated. With either claim, is this really the case? Read the full story and come to your own conclusions. Share them with all of us!
At Waconia’s library, there’s nothing to check out
Bob Cox writes
For a definition of “confusion,” look into Waconia’s new library. But don’t look for it in a book. There aren’t any.
There isn’t any heat or electricity, either. Although the other tenants of the city’s new $12 million downtown project moved into sparkling new offices and cozy apartments last month, the library space remains empty, cold and dark, thanks to disagreements between city and county officials.
City Administrator Susan Arntz said the city has always been clear about what it would provide for the new library, a branch of the Carver County system. She said the city assumed responsibility for the exterior of the building and agreed to contribute $175,000 toward finishing the 11,920-square-foot interior space. More…..
‘Da Vinci Code’ publisher drops fight to stop book
Bob Cox writes
Random House Inc. yesterday said it intended to drop its demands that a Nashville publisher retitle an upcoming critique of the best-selling mystery novel, The Da Vinci Code.
Thomas Nelson Inc. is preparing to distribute a Texas theologian’s analysis of Dan Brown’s mystery novel. But the title of Darrell Bock’s forthcoming book — Breaking the Da Vinci Code — had raised the ire of Random House.
100th anni-Seus-sary
Bob Cox writes
Nearly 13 years after her husband’s passing, Geisel leads the global enterprise that has sprouted from Seuss’ beloved books – watching over the Cat in the Hat, the Grinch and all the other critters and characters who live on in movies, toys, games and ventures that perhaps not even the imaginative doctor could have envisioned. Wonderful Dr Seus!!
Havel to play library card
Gary Price writes
A year into his post-presidential life, Vaclav Havel is taking a cue from his American counterparts.
The dissident/playwright-turned-politician’s life and legacy will be the focus of a presidential library, modeled on similar institutions in the United States dedicated to 10 former presidents. The project is being overseen by the nonprofit company Knihovna Vaclava Havla, co-founded by former first lady Dagmar Havlova, and a six-person administrative board that met for the first time Feb. 16. Havel publicly announced the project the next day during a wide-ranging interview with Czech journalists, his first such meeting since leaving office in February 2003.
Organizers say the library will serve as a research center and repository for Havel’s writings and records related to his public life. It will also host exhibits on the communist era, the dissident movement and the re-establishment of Czech democracy and will host seminars and conferences on global issues and human rights.
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