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Other Voices: Do not privatize our libraries at any cost
Grass Valley :: CA :: USA | about 1 hour ago
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I have really appreciated reading each passionate letter and column, because so many salient points have been so effectively addressed by our community. Web site) because I direct our students to the public library on a daily basis. I send our students...
Tags: public libraries, Grass Valley, Library and information science, Education, Library, Librarian, Public library, Nevada
Mountain View library on Big Island to close temporarily
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | about 16 hours ago
Credibility Mountain View Public & School Library on the Big Island will close temporarily beginning today for interior renovation and maintenance. The book drop will also be closed. Brief informational reference questions may be directed to the "Ask-A-Librarian"...
Why shouldn't libraries sell books, asks minister
London :: United Kingdom | about 20 hours ago
Credibility Libraries risk sleepwalking through the century unless radical ideas are implemented, the arts minister Margaret Hodge claimed today, at the launch of a long-delayed, much-anticipated consultation document on the future of libraries in the UK. Hodge...
Tags: United Kingdom, London, Library, Starbucks, Library and information science, National library, Librarian, Public library
Other Voices: Questions for private library corporation
Grass Valley :: CA :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility But times have changed and our local government must find ways to save as much money as possible. Selling our public libraries to a private corporation seems like a way to do that while still keeping them available to the public. But I have some questions...
Tags: public library, Grass Valley, Library and information science, Subscription library, Library, Business Finance, Michigan Library Consortium, Librarian, Advertising, Private library
Comics for adults pose a challenge for libraries
Greensboro :: NC :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility Libraries are feeling some growing pains because of the increasing popularity of comic books. Sherrie Antonowicz , collection development manager for the Greensboro Public Library, said the graphic novel medium has matured in the past decade and gotten...
Tags: graphic novels, Sherrie Antonowicz, black dossier, young adults, formal complaint, public libraries, Greensboro Public Library, Libby Oxenfeld, Greensboro, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Library, Young adult literature, Librarian, Graphic novel, Young-adult fiction, Public library
The library can be sexy too, say naked students
Prague :: Czech Republic | 5 days ago
Credibility Too drab, too grey, too asexual, say student bookworms at Brno’s Masaryk University...Guerrilla Readers, an association whose primary aim is to promote reading, has printed a calendar to give some sex appeal to libraries in 2010.
Tags: Czech Republic, Prague, Falvey, Library and information science, Education, Library, Librarian
Vincennes University receives library grant
Vincennes :: IN :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility Ind. Vincennes University's Shake Learning Resource Center has received a $125,817 grant to launch a "Learning Unlimited" project to meet the educational and professional development needs of area residents. Vincennes University is joining with public...
Tags: public library, Vincennes University, Indiana State Library, learning unlimited, Vincennes, Library and information science, Education, Library, Knox County Indiana, Librarian, Vincennes Indiana, Southwestern Indiana
Make a gingerbread house with Miss Carol
South Lake Tahoe :: CA :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility The event is sponsored by the Friends of the Douglas County Public Library. Children services librarian Carol Nageotte, know as Miss Carol, will teach youngsters to create a fun, edible craft to take home...Participants will be asked to choose a donation...
Tags: gingerbread house, South Lake Tahoe, Cookies, Cakes, Librarian, English cuisine, Gingerbread, British cuisine
Other Voices: When it comes to library privatization, tread carefully!
Grass Valley :: CA :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility Most of my career I spent in the for-profit world of libraries as the director of knowledge and learning management for a large biomedical company. I have also worked for the Nevada County Libraries at the Madelyn Helling, Grass Valley, and Doris Foley...
Tags: service provider, contract service, Nevada County Libraries, contributes greatly, public library, Grass Valley, Baltimore County Public Library, Alameda County Library, Library, Librarian
It's time to storm the Bastille
Baltimore :: MD :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility An outrage is afoot in Nevada County. Rick Haffey, County Executive Officer, is attempting to turn the running of our public libraries over to a private, for profit, corporation out of Maryland. Not only will this affect our librarians, if they are rehired...
Tags: Nevada County Libraries, Baltimore, Librarian, Library and information science, Library, Public library, Nevada, West Coast of the United States
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