Proctor and Gamble At the Library, Didn't They Used to Be Into Satanism?

"The Pittston Memorial Library’s Cosgrove Capital Campaign recently received a boost by way of a $5,000 grant from Procter & Gamble. P & G Paper Products Public Relations Manager Alex Fried presented the grant check which will be used for expansion of the library. The company also donated 10 desktop and laptop computers to the library."

Library gets boost from P & G - The Sunday Dispatch

Remember that rumor years ago that P & G was in league with the dark powers?  Oh how we forget, just because we got technology and people decided to do actual research rather than dwell on rumor.  (I'm looking at you, Christian boycotters of old.) 

Anyway, how would the devil invade society?  Donations of money and computers seem like a good start.  Look out Pittston Memorial, first there's the pretty gifts, then they want you to do a favor.  They will not know when, or where, but at some point they will come to you and ask you to discard a book in the dead at night. 

The devil sounds a lot like the godfather.

NC Libraries to Provide eBook Access

"North Carolina libraries, including Moore County Library, and NC LIVE have teamed up with San Francisco-based nonprofit Internet Archive on a project that gives library patrons free access to a large downloadable e-book collection.

The collaboration allows North Carolinians to check out and download more than 200,000 e-books published between 1923 and 1999 through Open Library, an e-book lending platform developed by Internet Archive."

Collaborative Project Provides Moore County Library Patrons With Access To ... - Southern Pines Pilot

Did anybody else know that ebooks have been around since 1923?  Go back up and read, I'll wait. 

You read that right, "200,000 ebooks published between 1923 and 1999."  Who knows what kinds of treasures are in that collection?  I can only imagine Hemingway and Fitzgerald sitting around Paris, Kindle in one hand, brain lubricant in the other, wondering how such marvels presented themselves.  Technology, am I right?

Doctor Who Noir Available as Ebook

For any of you folks out there who watched the last episode of Doctor Who, "The Angels Take Manhattan," and wanted to know just what else you were missing in the novel that sat passenger seat to the episode, rejoice!  The Melody Malone mystery short story has been printed as an ebook from the BBC available at Random House or wherever you get that kind of thing.  Sadly, the last page seems to be torn out.

How do you feel about add-ons, mixed media, if you will?  Me, I'm cool with it.  I like that you can enhance an universe with extra content.  I am just waiting on my full copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide.

The detective novel from last week's Doctor Who is now available as an ebook - io9

Library Does Not Understand Why Someone Would Steal Television

After their 42-inch television was stolen, Madison County Library employees cannot fathom why anyone would want to take the relic. 

Seriously, why would anyone bother to take such a bygone item of technology?  What's next, a rash of iPhone 4 thefts?  That television must date back to the middle of Obama's administration it is so old.  That television is so old (how old was it?) they could have watched the last episode of House on it.  Just wow, why would that happen?

Library 'baffled' by theft of 42-inch TV - Richmond Register

Friends Make Cookbook to Raise Funds, Library Recipe Puns

The Friends of the Kingston Public library are gathering recipes for a cookbook aimed to raise funds for the library.  That's most of the story.  I'm just telling you so I can come up with a bunch of library recipe names. 

MARC - Machine Readable Cheesecake
ILL - Interlibrary Lo Mein
Cata-cheese-log
Milk Shhhakes
Over Fondue
Biografree Range Chicken
Check Out Chicken with Roasted Dates
Hold List Halibut

Feel free to submit your own!

Friends of the Kingston Public Library prepares fundraising cookbook - Wicked Local

Porno Set In the Cornell Library

When Cornell students this weekend were doing some self-surfing, they noticed a particular video had a setting that seemed fairly familiar.  It seems over the summer break, a lovely blond young lady used the library to... um... have a little fun.  Know what I'm saying, wink, wink, nudge, nudge and all that. Or she was paid for the act, as several Internet dwellers feel they have located the woman in video as a model from a local town.  Anyway, the video was recently posted on the Cornell message board EzraHub and still appears to be working.  So I have heard.

On the subject of sex in public in general... Well, you are only young once, am I right?  Do stupid shit and learn.  And, apparently in this lady's case, get paid.  Just be careful and do not do anything in a way that will harm or hurt yourself or others.  That being said, I cannot condone this.  Academic library or not, this is a public space and if I were running the library, I would have to turn you in for indecent exposure.  So keep that in mind, the librarian is not on your side when it comes to hanky panky in the stacks, but we were all young once and did dumb shit.  The library forgives but the library does not forget.  And clean that shit up.

Colleges Still Good For Something: Cornell Library Serves as Setting for Porn ... - Gawker

Council Cuts Library Funding Despite Public Protest and Mayoral Veto

The Middletown Public Library has had its funding cut leaving the future of the library in question.   In a 7-1 vote to override the veto by the mayor, the city council voted to cut the library's $250,000 annual budget.  The library is expected to continue as a nonprofit entity.  Here's a random quote from the article:

"After a period of public comment, McNamara provided a rebuttal, saying the borough could not afford its previous $250,000 annual funding for the library because of a 2012 budget deficit.
“We’re not against the library, folks, but decisions have to be made and we don’t have time,” he said.
“We are here for the town and if we have to cut the budget and cut money so we don’t have another Harrisburg, we have to do it, and we were advised by professionals where we should do the cutting,” said Councilor Barbara Arnold, referencing recommendations by borough financial consultant Mark Morgan. “So we are doing what professionals told us to do.”

So basically, "we fucked up and you are going to have to pay with your children's and communities education."  One has to wonder what happened to this community that they need $250,000 right now rather than take cuts from other departments as a whole and, you know, act like a community that is in this together rather than acting like panicked twenty-year-olds deciding not to pay the Internet bill because they have a connection on their phone.  I hope the library can continue in this diminished capasity, but this may just be the death nail for this library.  Our thoughts are with the library and the community.

Council overrides mayor's veto, cuts library funding - Middletown Press and Journal