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Cookbooks: The Jewish Princess Feast & Festivals by Georgie Tarn ...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:20:00 GMT

There’s almost spirit and humor enough in The Jewish Princess Feast & Festivals (Sterling Books) to match anything written by Amy Sedaris (you’ll note I said “almost”: Sedaris is really funny!). The bonus, of course, is that The Jewish Princess Feast & Festivals is also a very real cookbook and,

Fine paid for books overdue by 51 years - page 1 - Books - NZ Her...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:07:36 GMT

A high school librarian in Phoenix, Arizona says a former student at the United States school returned two overdue books checked out 51 years ago along with a $1,000 (NZ$1,345) money…

Mercer County Library Helps Needy Through Fine Donation Program -...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:15:00 GMT

BLUEFIELD -- The Craft Memorial Library in Bluefield is hosting the Food for Fines program. Organizers are collecting food for Mercer County food pantries through a fine exchange program.

CA Library To Debut Netflix-Like “Fines-Free” Program

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

me for $2.99 a month, five items for $4.99 a month, or up to ten for $8.99 month, with no late fees. (There’s no free shipping, however. Some libraries in New Jersey offer delivery by mail but still charge late fees.)

Hayward, CA Public Library Will Launch “Fines Free” Borrowing Pac...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:00:13 GMT

Is this the future for public libraries? It will be interesting to see how this works for both the library and users. An article in the Oakland, Tribune says that the Hayward, CA Public Library is about to take a page from the Netflix playbook and introduce an optional program that allows users to

Kindles and laptops replace books at this school library | csmoni...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:43:24 GMT

Books: Book reviews, news from the literary world, and a daily blog by the books editor of The Christian Science Monitor.

Man's Body Found Near George Mason High School

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:03:05 GMT

Falls Church Police reported today (Oct. 18) the discovery�at about 8 a. m. the body a man, apparently deceased, in the west end of the City, near the intersection of Broad Street (Route 7) and

Spanish Outreach 101

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:10:11 GMT

When Robin Imperial took charge of Spanish services at the Wake County P.L. in Raleigh, NC, back in 2000, she knew she had a lot to learn.

Chief librarians open up library access across UK | theBookseller...

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:26:11 GMT

The Society of Chief Librarians has announced a new scheme enabling readers to borrow books and other items from any public library in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. More than 4,000 libraries have signed up to the scheme, which becomes operational today (28th September).

New library card field added to WorldCat Registry

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:57:00 GMT

A new field has been added to the WorldCat Registry to help users sign up for a library card, once they find their local library through WorldCat.org. This new field, called "Library Card Form Page" lets you add the URL for your library card sign-up form to your Registry profile.

Public libraries open to anyone

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:18:26 GMT

Public libraries across the country are now open to any member of the public, regardless of where they live.

Odds and Bookends: September 11

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:11:17 GMT

Target Volunteers School Library MakeoverTarget, First Book and the Heart of America Foundation have teamed up to provide books to children in need across the United States. Target kicked off the project this week on September 10 as part of the United We Serve initiative.National Library Card

Rare Books at Missouri State University

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:09:02 GMT

"Items on display range from a 1502 printing of Ovid's Metamorphoses to a first edition of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn." Read this article....

Library Card Sign-up Month 2009

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:48:00 GMT

From ALA, "September is Library Card Sign-up Month - a time to remind parents and kids that a library card is the most important school supply of all."

What Are You Doing for Library Card Sign-up Month?

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

September is Library Card Sign-up Month, and as usual, the American Library Association has tons of great ideas and graphics available to help libraries remind their visitors that next to their voter registration card, this is the most important card in their wallet or purse. Basketball star

September is Library Card Sign Up Month

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:22:42 GMT

September is Library Card Sign-up Month, and [the fill-in-the-name-of- your-county-library-here] wants to make sure that all children have the smartest card of all - a library card and/or that everyone in the county is among the two-thirds of Americans who carry a library card.Studies

Library Card Sign-up Month 2009 (USA)

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:44:48 GMT

2009 Calendars and Cards Feature Library Collections

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:52:07 GMT

Four calendars and three sets of Knowledge Cards featuring the wide-ranging collections of the Library of Congress have been released for 2009.

Cool MS Surface App in Delft

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:10:14 GMT

Wow! How many library cards can do this? Man, I go away for a month and look at what I missed:Multitouch Microsoft Surface: Cultural Heritage Browser from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo.At DOK, theyve made an app for their Microsoft Surface table that first reads a patrons profile off of

The Transparent Library: It’s Fine to Drop Dewey!

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:36:11 GMT

MS: Each semester, during an intro class unit on organization of information, we discuss these issues. Dewey designed a system that worked well for its time—and way beyond—but it has deficiencies weve tried to cover with Band-Aids, like more signage. We listen to Marshall Shore interviewed

RenewBot vs Library Elf

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:35:28 GMT

Fight! (I looked, but couldn't find a picture of a robot fighting an elf) I just discovered RenewBot, which will automatically renew your library books X # of days before they come due, where X is set by you. First...

The Fine Use of Perspective In Book Covers

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:49:00 GMT

—New Directions: Declan Spring —Unbridled Books: Fred Ramey —Soft Skull/Counterpoint: Richard Nash —Chelsea Green: Margo Baldwin —Coffee House Press: Allan Kornblum —Godine: David R. Godine

Invisible Library Card

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:23:40 GMT

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Above the Fold: Fun run organizers waive late fee

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:00:00 GMT

June 18, 2009: Fun run organizers waive late fee, from our Caldera Community section.

Talking your way out of library fines

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:24:00 GMT

Alison Flood: As a chronic late returner, I'm a huge fan of San Francisco public library's fines amnesty for interesting excuses