link dump - libraries in the news
A few stories that I didn’t want to do fill write-ups for, collected using the Fargo ND airport’s free wifi.
- Wanted: detainee librarian, Guantanamo Bay
- “It’s All Acting” T Scott Plutchak discusses being a shy librarian, and why he’s so good in front of crowds as a result.
- “the cultural heritage, the intellectual heritage, of humans … too important to be left to one company” - Google, Privacy and Libraries in the Wall Street Journal
- The SF Maritime Museum is making their library appointment only, starting next week. Why? Budget cuts.
- Delta librarian retires, from a town where 41% of the 40,000 residents can’t read.
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:22
[…] J.R. Moehringer, author of a BGB-favorite - The Tender Bar, has a day job. He’s a Pulitzer-prize winning staff writer for the L.A. Times. He’s written a great story in today’s paper about the retirement of the head of the Mississippi Delta’s Bolivar County library system. Bolivar County is one of the most illiterate places in the U.S. (41% illiteracy rate). (link via Librarian.net). […]
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:22
[…] J.R. Moehringer, author of a BGB-favorite - The Tender Bar, has a day job. He’s a Pulitzer-prize winning staff writer for the L.A. Times. He’s written a great story in today’s paper about the retirement of the head of the Mississippi Delta’s Bolivar County library system. Bolivar County is one of the most illiterate places in the U.S. (41% illiteracy rate). (link via Librarian.net). […]