My boyfriend started his summer internship for Senator Jeffords on Monday and gets a day off on Friday thanks to the Ronald Reagan hoopla. Here is an at-a-glance portrait of the Reagan library where Reagan will be buried tomorrow. [lisnews]
Category: libraries
LoC class action suit follow previous LoC class action suit
The Library of Congress has had a class action lawsuit filed against it by 45 black employees. You may recall that the LoC settled a class action lawsuit with its black employees in 1994.
AFPL watch, now out of a job?
Now that Atlanta-Fulton Public Library system is getting a new director and a significantly smaller board will the AFPL Watch site shut down? The AFPL site, if you haven’t read it, is a scathing and sometimes amusing indictment of one clearly dysfunctional library system, board and director written by “concerned citizens” and anonymous AFPL staff. How much of your own library do you see in it?
who is watching the library watchers?
Other pages where the phrase “library watch” features prominently: China Library Watch, bloggish library watch entry, Library Watch name for a library news page, Library Watch newsletter, Library Watch safety program at UofT, Library Watch the joke Fox series and, of course, the Library Watch Cat
another visited library
While I was on a trip to Northern Vermont this weekend I visited the H. F. Brigham Free Library an adorable little one-room library with a budget of 14K, two Internet-enabled computers and a new hyper librarian who was determined to get the place hopping.