Last month we told you about an NPR story about the number of bookmobiles dwindling across the country—this Sunday, Weekend Edition announced that at least one of these trucks will have a happy ending. The focal point of the original NPR piece was a bookmobile…
In case you missed it, as I did, “A treasure trove of pre-revolutionary books and magazines has been discovered in the archives of the Russian State Polytechnical Museum Library in Moscow” hidden behind false walls, according to this report from the RBTH website. The librarians…
In Chapel Hill, NC, the public library is a quiet place where you can track down your latest interests or peacefully read the latest novel. But that quiet has been disturbed recently. According to this report on WCHL radio’s Chapelboro website, some one has been…
More than 750 writers, scholars, and librarians have signed a public letter asking New York Public Library president Anthony Marx to reconsider a $350 million plan to radically transform its iconic Stephen A. Schwarzman research library and move one million books in the library’s collection…
How’s this for a howler? Last week Councilman Victor Petersen of Gilbert, Arizona, had the genius idea that libraries could manage their costs by scrapping fiction audiobooks and other services he classified as ‘entertainment’: I don’t think it’s our job to subsidize entertainment… Those are…
A rare, 270 year-old book has been found in a vault at the oldest library in the South, the Charleston Library Society. “But after all this time the library won’t be able to keep it,” the Associated Press reports. A book on political parties, Dissertation…
In another heartbreaking piece of news from the libraries front line, the Women’s Library and Trade Union Congress Library in London are under threat. Both are currently housed by London Metropolitan University, which has announced that it can no longer afford to keep the collections open.…
Interesting developments arise as James Joyce‘s work comes into the public domain. In reaction to the publication of a collection of unpublished Joyce manuscripts by scholar Danis Rose, and Rose’s subsequent claim that he is now the copyright holder in the EU of these manuscripts,…
Last night was World Book Night. In communities across the U.S. and beyond, people and groups organized efforts to give out free copies of various books in what Anna Quindlen, an honorary chairperson for the event, describes as “an intellectual Halloween, only better.” While World Book…
Thousands of Tunisians crowded the heart of the capital yesterday, occupying Habib Bourguiba Avenue in a silent demonstration dubbed “The Avenue Reads.” A Facebook page created for the event explains: And what if we took over the avenue? Not with our chanting and demonstrations, but…
