Dinkytown Changes, A Library Burns, and Other Newsy News

Hershey Library turns 100.  Chocolate joke.  Possibly with dark...

Caroline Kennedy in Seattle told libraries they are special.  Our hearts grew 10 times.

Curious what happens when a book is overdue.  This Maine investigative report finds out.  Hint: Librarians won't be surprised.

Area librarian retires so the newspaper breaks out the "closing the book" line.

Dinkytown Library is planning some remodeling.  Let's all pretend I'm not sharing this because it's called "Dinkytown."

Islamist Rebels Burn Timbuktu Library.  Historic manuscripts are burned.  This hurts my heart.

San Francisco library gets into puppy shit business because of lack of training paper. I am so not kidding.

Newark school librarian to be retried in decade old sex scandal case.

The New York Public Library is set to archive menus back to 1840.  Com'on.  This is just a bunch of librarians cleaning out the drawer in the office with the take-out menus.

Some awards were put out there.  You know'em.

Library of Congress has power over cell phones.  Taking time archiving twitter, but can lock down your cell phone.

New York Donatin', Cleveland Renovatin' and Detroit Collectin'

The New York Public Library and the Central Park Conservatory each got a check for $10 million dollars from the estate of Mary Bailey after her death in February 2011, Fox News reports.  When asked what they were going to do with the money, NYPL staff said they were "going to Disneyland" and Central Park mumbled something about "trees and shit."

Cleveland area library Chagrin Falls will receive a $1 million renovation to the exterior and the interior of the facility.  After receiving the funds, Chagrin Falls will be changing its name to Pleasure Falls and instituting an overall dissociation with Cleveland.

The papers of Coleman A. Young, Detroit's first African American mayor, are set to be cataloged within the Detroit Public Libraries collection.  The papers were vetted by Young before his death in 1997 and have been awaiting cataloging for years.  The young archivists detailed for the assignment marveled at the amount of "paper" and wondered if Young had ever sent a text or an email, like, ever.

Back in the Saddle, All the News I Missed in One Go

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So the Banned Library took a little vacation and look at what you folks did.  Calendars, ebook crap, Amazon and that damn Kindle, even Harry ma-fuckin Potter got in on the action.  Well, here we go with the best random sentences I could cobble together in my one non-alcohol infused hallucination.  So hit the jump and follow the pink elephant into the marshmallow pool!

Because it works so well with firemen, the men of the library started a little calendar to show off their cataloging butts for charity.  Nothing like living out that Full Monty fantasy, right fellas?  LATimes

Pottermore, the Harry Potter site, announced that they will not be releasing Harry Potter ebooks until early 2012.  I guess I will have to go back to the pdf scans a 14 year old made and torrented two years ago.  ABCNews

The Amazon ebook "Reamde" by Neal Stephenson came under fire when first it was said to be full of typos and errors, and upon re-release Amazon labeled the ebook as having corrected "missing content."  Amazon had no comment when we pretended to call them on our hand because of our next story.  ChristianScienceMonitor

Amazon officially announced their color Kindle, the "Amazon Fire."  Hilariously, you could equate this to the burning of the amazon jungle to allow for grazing land for cattle.  In this joke, cattle are people.  Amazon via Geekologie

President Obama has set forth legislation that will allow states to opt out of the controversial "No Child Left Behind" program.  I do not have a joke, I just wanted you all to know.  CNN

This article was titled "Books on the Banned Wagon."  That is the single best article title in Banned Books week ever.  hindustantimes

New York librarians can rest easy again knowing that the nightmare book thief has been caught and prosecuted.  With this one problem gone, the library can concentrate on who keeps leaving stinky in the men's restroom.  New York Post

Two, count them, two libraries were infested with bedbugs this week.  The Vancouver area library found bedbugs in their shelves and furniture, as did an Arizona library.  VancouverSun and AZCentral

The Lowell City Council in Massachusetts has voted to ban sex offenders from being at the library during times when children are present.  So remember, get arrested for a sex related crime and you are not allowed into Summer Reading.  BostonHerald

Freaked out, the California State University library was evacuated searched after a patron indicated he had a gun.  The man was found and slapped around like the stupid red-headed stepchild he was.  WashingtonPost

The e-reader app Kobo now allows your friends to see what you are reading and when you are reading it by posting automatic notices.  Your mother wants to know why you would read all that smut.  Your best friend thinks you are gay for Percy Jackson.  Your girlfriend wants to know who "Jane Eyre" is and if she is prettier.  Thanks, Kobo.  USAToday

The Dead Sea Scrolls are gonna be online.  We can get 2000 year old parchment online, but not fucking Harry Potter?  Youtube via BoingBoing