Library hosts documentary
Danville Commercial News
DANVILLE — Outreach librarian Leslie Boedicker is working with the library's African/Black American Advisory Committee and other community partners to present a free documentary “For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots” at 6:30 pm ...

The Sacramento Press
Ask the County Law Librarian -- Law Library Closing for Move; Re-opening March 1
The Sacramento Press
You may also visit the Witkin State Law Library of California or the Yolo County Law Library, which are the two nearest law libraries open to the public in the Sacramento area. The Yolo County Law Library has graciously volunteered to remain open an ...

New reading tools help disabled better enjoy library
Bastrop Daily Enterprise
Morehouse Parish Library Systems Administrator Peggy Riles demonstrates the library's new Topaz machine which magnifies books and maps for legally blind patrons. By Vicki Adams A grant from the state-wide library system is putting technology in ...

New reading tools help disabled better enjoy library
Bastrop Daily Enterprise
Morehouse Parish Library Systems Administrator Peggy Riles demonstrates the library's new Topaz machine which magnifies books and maps for legally blind patrons. By Vicki Adams A grant from the state-wide library system is putting technology in ...

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Jane Moyer celebrates her 100th birthday and a lifetime of historical service ...
Lehighvalleylive.com
She then went to Kutztown State Teachers College, now Kutztown University, where in 1934 she received a bachelor's degree in library science. While at Kutztown she also studied history and English and was involved in drama, student council, ...

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Then & Now: Miller's library became symbol of Cornell
Ithaca Journal
Local heiress Jennie McGraw Fiske left $200000 to Cornell for a library. But according to state law, such a sizeable bequest from a married woman was not legal. Fiske's widower, university librarian and professor Daniel Willard Fiske, ...

CBS Local
Seattle Library Upholds Man's Right To Watch Porn On Its Computers
Geekosystem
Washington State Supreme Court has actually given libraries limited and understandable filtering rights. In a 2010 decision, the court ruled that libraries have historically had some amount of control as to what they carried in their collection, ...
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Walter Named DePaul University Librarian
Library Journal
DePaul University, Chicago, on February 1 announced the appointment of Scott Walter as its new university librarian, effective April 30. He now serves as the associate university librarian for services and the associate dean of libraries at the ...

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Logan Library celebrating 200th birthday of Charles Dickens
Cache Valley Daily
He died in 1870, but prolific and popular writer Charles Dickens is living on at the Logan Library. In fact, the library is hosting a 200th birthday party for Dickens on Tuesday, February 7 starting at 7 pm in the library's Jim Bridger Room and ...

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Teacher librarian named teacher of the month
Newcastle News
By Staff Diane Ferbrache, teacher librarian at Hazen High School, has been selected as the Renton Rotary Club's teacher of the month. She attended Texas State University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in elementary education.

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Traveling Exhibit Explores Why, Where and How We Work
Twin Falls Times-News
The Burley library's related programming will include an afterschool program for kids, book club reading, lectures, storytime and a 4 pm Feb. 4 opening program featuring Keith Petersen, state historian and associate director of the Idaho State ...

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New Santa Maria position is heaven for a bookworm
Santa Maria Times
Upon returning home, she got a master's degree in public administration at California State University, Long Beach. Housel has worked at many libraries during her career including her native Orange County, where she was a branch manager for six years.

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Research Center, archivist earn state award
SunHerald.com
Librarian Shugana Williams and the 4-year-old center at the Gulf Park campus in Long Beach will share the “Preserver of Mississippi Culture” award with Edie Greene and Mississippi Public Broadcasting in Jackson. Recipients will be honored Feb.

Area Black History Month events
Canton Repository
I, 12:30 to 2 pm, Kent State University at Stark, library conference room, 6000 Frank Ave. NW, Jackson Township. The program features video portraits of prominent black figures in arts, sports, politics, business and government, followed by a moderated ...

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Best-selling crime writer Val McDermid on the importance of public libraries
Mirror.co.uk
My mother used to take me to the public library years before I could read. She'd find a quiet corner of the children's section and tell me the stories, pointing to the pictures. I couldn't even pronounce the word – I used to say we were going to the ...

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Former Hackley Public Library director, deputy state librarian dead at 77
Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com
Pretzer served as director of Hackley Public Library from 1982-1994. He also was Michigan's deputy state librarian for a time. Marilyn Andersen, who wrote the library's history for its centennial at Pretzer's request, said Pretzer was a “very fine man” ...

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Seattle libraries: No sleeping or eating allowed, but porn-watching OK
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Many libraries have separate kids' areas, away from computers. But in Wenatchee, home of the state's largest library district - the five-county North Central Regional Library – librarians are fighting an ACLU lawsuit over their use of computer filters.
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Cora Belden Library Opens its Doors to Families Saturday
Patch.com
More than 100 libraries across Connecticut are participating in the event along with media centers in other states and in Canada. Each library in the state is celebrating the event differently, Potter said. “Each one has made it their own,” she said.

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Pearl River Library Offers Upgraded Webpage
Patch.com
"The people here are some of the best librarians I've ever worked with. We have such great stuff available. People hadn't known about it and now we can get it out there online." The library chose to unveil the new site at the same time as the new ...

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Longtime Eastchester librarian Feldhaus to retire
The Journal News | LoHud.com
She graduated with a master's in library science from what is now Southern Connecticut State University nearly 30 years ago. “I never ever wanted to be an adult librarian,” she said. “I love children. When I was a girl, a library was a forbidding place ...