Campus libraries hosting book-collection contest
The State Press
Katie Shoultz Friday, November 6, 2009 ASU’s libraries are currently accepting entries for the annual student book-collecting contest, with prizes of up to $600 available to students with the best collections. ASU’s libraries are currently ...
Hennepin County Libraries to be open Veterans Day
Champlin - Dayton Press
Hennepin County libraries will be open their regular hours on Veterans Day, Wednesday, Nov. 11. The Nokomis and Plymouth libraries are currently closed for renovation.
UMass cancels talk by Ray Luc Levasseur, convicted for involvement in ...
Union-News & Sunday Republican
AMHERST – The University of Massachusetts Libraries announced Thursday that they have canceled a Nov. 12 talk by Ray Luc Levasseur, a former leader of the United Freedom Front. But others say they are still hoping to have him speak elsewher...
U.S. bill would overhaul annual phone fund
CNN Money
phone companies complained to lawmakers that the $7 billion universal service fund, whose mission is to help low income customers, rural healthcare, schools and libraries, is outdated and promotes inefficiency. AT&T Inc, Verizon Communicati...
Fresno County Libraries Furlough
CBS 47 Fresno
FSU isn’t the only thing hurt by the economy. Fresno County libraries are getting ready to cut costs. The library system is looking at 4 furlough days in the coming months. It’s a part of the County-Wide effort to cut costs. The majority of...
Bid to lift Sno-Isle Libraries levy rate passing
Everett Herald
If Tuesday night election results hold up, Sno-Isle Libraries should be able to avoid reducing hours next year. Sno-Isle Libraries Prop. 1, which would increase the library district's levy rate by 9 cents per $1,000 of assessed property val...
Henderson Libraries Helping Jobseekers
KLAS Las Vegas
A record number of southern Nevadans are looking for work and Henderson libraries are trying to help them find it. To do that, they're focusing on ways to help jobseekers stand out from the crowd.
Brightboard Indoor Digital Signage for Schools, Colleges and Libraries
PRLog (free press release)
All types of businesses across the United States (Libraries, Schools, Convention Centers, Banks, Military Bases and Museums just to name a few) are currently using a Brightboard Digital Sign to inform, educate and to promote special events,...
Lawmakers Finish Draft Universal Service Fund Reform
eWeek
New legislation would allow Universal Service Fund to be used for broadband deployment, expanding the USF from its traditional use as fund to subsidize phone service in under-served and rural areas and Internet connections in schools and li...
Washington County Board approves 2010 budget
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A separate rate of $0.233 per $1,000 - nearly 5 cents higher than this year - will be levied on property owners in municipalities without libraries. The resulting levy of $1.6 million will be distributed to communities with libraries to pay...
Will Google Books Settlement 2.0 quell concerns?
San Francisco Chronicle
The controversy was sparked by Google's effort to scan millions of books at university libraries and make them partially viewable online. Writers, the Authors Guild and members of the Association of American Publishers protested what they c...
Libraries feel budget bite
Lancaster Online
William Schatz came to the Lancaster Public Library on Monday, as he does about four nights a week, to make revisions on his book about the chemical basis for human emotions.Eric Briner, a Special Olympics powerlifter, comes to the library ...
Book News of the Day
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Libraries might as well not exist; they've got endless shelves for rubbish and hardly any space for good books." Joe Orton, 1967 "Orton and Halliwell first came to the public attention not as writers but through an elaborate and extended pr...
Congressman Poe delivers healthcare bill to local libraries
Cleveland Advocate
Congressman Ted Poe (TX02) and staff have delivered copies of the House Healthcare Bill, HR. 3962 to local libraries throughout the Second Congressional district.