Showing posts with label Timbuktu. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

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.