LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #229
This week's episode looks around the LISHost galaxy while looking at some ambiguous information in a speculative manner.Related links:LISWire: Worch Memorial Public Library Joins COOL and Goes Live on...
View ArticleHistoric Timbuktu Library Torched
Mali Islamists torch hub of Islamic learning in Timbuktu library.Fleeing Islamist extremists torched a library containing historic manuscripts in Timbuktu, the mayor said Monday, as French and Malian...
View ArticleLibraries Have Had Their Day
Horrible Histories author Terry Deary has said libraries have had their day. Deary referred to libraries as being a Victorian idea that does not fit in contemporary times.(h/t Public Libraries News)
View ArticleColorado Librarian Jeffrey Beall Slapped With Canadian Libel Claim
Colleen Flaherty reports at Inside Higher Ed that the Canadian Centre for Science and Education has hit Beall with a libel claim over his Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013. This follows the...
View ArticleA Different Kind of Library Down Under
Sydney Australia will be getting a new library; library as learning space, meeting space and playing space.
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #234
This week's program is brief as it propounds an alternative in a providing support in a particular case and provides some news briefs.Related links:LISNews: Dale Askey Support Facebook PageCanadian...
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #235
This week's program provides a news miscellany.Related links:CBS New York: Officials: Most NYC High School Grads Need Remedial Help Before Entering CUNY Community CollegesPCMag.com: Cablevision: Viacom...
View ArticleWould More People Use the Library if it had a Water Slide?
Rhetorical question from The Atlantic Cities:In 2010, Poland's National Library performed a survey to determine the reading habits of the Polish citizenry. The results were not buoying: 56 percent of...
View ArticleSad Harlem Shake Story
Sad story from Huffington Post of the librarian who shook herself out of a job. Students and politicians alike are calling for an Oxford University librarian to be reinstated after she was fired for...
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #237
This week's program starts off with a brief essay talking about the disintegration of having a coherent "popular culture" in the United States then turns to the strange case of the Harlem Shake in...
View ArticleTurkish Protestors get Library
Taksim Gezi Park is an urban park in Taksim Square, in Istanbul's Beyo?lu district. It is one of the smallest parks of Istanbul. In May 2013, plans to replace the park with a reconstruction of the...
View ArticleThe Foundation of All Knowledge
This public library in Samara, Russia needed to have a wall repaired and the powers that be decided to save a little money and use material they already had plenty of…via Factura
View ArticleDance @ Your Library
for your Monday entertainment... Britain's Cascade Dance Company at the Tunbridge Wells Library in "Big Dance Library Project", recorded in the summer of 2012.
View ArticleA Librarian Sets Us Straight
For years, thousands of children throughout the world have been studying a poem about sunflowers believing it to be the work of the 19th-century poet William Blake.Reading lists have included it for...
View ArticleThe Taksim Square Book Club
Protest is taking a new form in Istanbul where I was fortunate enough to visit about a month ago. Individuals are standing in their beloved square and reading books of their choice.Violent scenes are...
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #250
And we're back even though we're now illegal in Vietnam! Then again, so is the rest of LISNews as we discuss in the program. The hiatus is over and normal programming resumes notwithstanding September...
View ArticleA Bookish Haven for Americans in Paris
Little known to tourists, the American Library in Paris has existed since books were first sent to WW1 doughboys. Here the LA Times gives us perspective on both the history of the library and its...
View ArticleMore Libraries for Libyan Cities & Villages
Dateline Tripoli, Libya -- The Libyan government has signed contracts to equip and furnish 94 pubic libraries and cultural centers in 22 Libyan cities and villages.The Minister of Culture Mr. Hbib...
View ArticleGanesh Chaturthi
Ganesh is the elephant headed god in the Hindu religion, and is a heavenly patron of libraries. Ganesh invented the alphabet, and broke off his right tusk in order to make the first pen. The capital...
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #253
This week: THE BRAZIL INCIDENTYes, the repercussions from the NSA spying revelations continue. Now we are seeing looming growth in the fracturing of the Internet with the imposition of national...
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