8 hours ago by johnlmalone

I know as a rule you shouldn’t undress in a public library but my feet were killing me, my belt tight so I took off my shoes and belt and placed them both beneath the table where I rested my magazines. Big mistake! After I woke from a snooze, I went to put on my shoes as my feet were cold. They were ...

8 hours ago by elizabeth

(via The Weed Brothers) (via A Bloody Mess)

11 hours ago by Kaye

Dver wrote a post about the importance of research and using your library resources that I think highlights why there is no excuse for a lack of intellectual rigor about one’s spirituality. I’d like to add my two cents to an already great bundle of information, assuming that people are already at th ...

11 hours ago

Penguin Group Terminating Its Contract with OverDrive — The Digital Shift: From the article: “In a stunning development, Penguin Group has extricated itself from its contract with OverDrive, the primary supplier of ebooks to public libraries. Starting February 10, Penguin, which had recently institu ...

13 hours ago by The Maven

Los Angeles’ top librarian is leaving the city family to become the vice dean of USC Libraries, the mayor’s office announced today. Martin Gomez will start his new job on April 2. “Over the past three years, Mr. Gomez’s service to the Los Angeles Public Library has been outstanding,” Villaraigosa sa ...

15 hours ago by stephen

Charlie Anderson, Project Engineer and Sheila Umberger, Dir. of Roanoke City Libraries. by Valerie Garner Say good-bye to the 30,000 square foot “super branch” and say hello to your new and improved neighborhood library branch. The lot on Peters Creek Road near the Cove Road intersection was purchas ...

15 hours ago

“So what if you are someone who only has a high school diploma as an educational certificate? Do you think someone of that intellectual caliber should only see materials calibrated to that level of achievement? Or what if your income level is lower than that of the super-wealthy (an increasing conce ...

17 hours ago by Catherine Mintz

If you feel access to a decent library is a bedrock of civilization then the battle between publishers and libraries is serious business indeed. FutureBook takes a look. Basically, publishers are not sure how to monetize ebooks sales to libraries and liraries, hemmed in increasingly tight budgets, a ...

17 hours ago by Hannah Johnson

By Hannah Johnson When Penguin recently announced the termination of its contract with OverDrive and thus an end to supplying libraries with any more e-books, California librarian Sarah Houghton got fed up. She posted a sign in the San Rafael Public Library that informed patrons of the publishers th ...

18 hours ago by Sue Hill

Some interesting words reverberated around the lively agenda-setting session at the breakfast table at Roast on Thursday morning for the first SHR networking breakfast of 2012. Strategic review was swiftly followed by strategy, business objectives and restructuring; budgets, economy, offsite and tim ...