The private school race
Pasadena Sun
By Megan O'Neil, megan.oneil@latimes.com Sitting with dozens of other eager parents in the Pasadena Christian School library late last month, Joyce Amaro listened carefully to officials describe the application process. The Alhambra resident wants to ...

Ann Coulter Clarifies The First Amendment On Red Eye: 'Getting Off Isn't Speech'
Mediaite
The problem with AC…she needs a man. Funny segment. Levy is great. He always calmly deconstructs Cooter's talking points. Keep your private life out of my public library. Once you leave home….it's public…not private. If Ann looks like a man to you…

Private Functions In JavaScript
iProgrammer
JavaScript doesn't have a native namespace facility so how are you supposed to keep utility and helper functions private? The solution is to use inner functions but this is just the start of the story. A common use of JavaScript that doesn't really ...

OCEANSIDE: Maryland company says it can run city's libraries cheaper
North County Times
Iris Lesure helps her children Isabella, 7, and Aston, 5, during an art class at the Mission Branch Library in Oceanside on Jan. 8. A private Maryland company says it can save Oceanside $300000 to $400000 annually by taking over operation of the city's ...

The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog)
Drive-up coffee shop added to downtown library plans
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog)
“I've never seen a library have a drive-up for coffee,” Pasicznyuk said. The city's $49 million library is going up without the need for revenue from property taxes. The funding comes from federal disaster funds, a state I-JOBS grant, private donations ...

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Washington State Library District Sued by ACLU for Online Porn Access
WiredPRNews.com (press release)
I have to side with the library district for restricting access to online porn in publicly funded libraries. Adult porn viewing should be confined to a private space, like at home, not a public place where children are present. It is just inappropriate ...

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Cazenovia residents learn more about Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed budget
Oneida Dispatch
Andrew Cuomo's proposed executive budget and fielded questions from community members Friday in the Cazenovia Public Library community room. Driscoll, who served as mayor from 2001-09, is the current president and CEO of the New York State ...

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New Cedar Rapids library will offer a first in the downtown: a drive-up coffee ...
Eastern Iowa Government
“I've never seen a library have a drive-up for coffee,” Pasicznyuk said this week. The city's $49-million library is going up without the need for revenue from property taxes. The funding comes from federal disaster funds, a state I-JOBS grant, private ...

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Ex-Katonah Library Director, Beardsley Dies at 91
The Daily Bedford
Beardsley was the former director of the Katonah Village Library for 14 years as well as a volunteer with many organizations. She was born in Minneapolis, Minn. to Percy Wash and Elizabeth Stacy Wash on May 6, 1920. In 1942, she graduated from ...

Art Show at Library Honors Humanitarian
Patch.com
Paintings in the show are available for purchase. A portion of the proceeds of sales benefits the Life Enrichment Center, a private, non-profit organization. The Upper Tampa Bay Library is located at 11211 Countryway Blvd in Tampa.

Library thanks Bill and Judy Scheide
Packet Online
In keeping with the Scheide's devotion to books, reading and learning in all forms, the Princeton Public Library will use the net proceeds of this event to purchase books and expand our collection. Funding for our collection comes solely from private ...

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New Los Gatos Library Will Be Wi-Fi
Patch.com
The Firetide network was purchased by the Los Gatos Friends of the Los Gatos Public Library nonprofit organization. The group is comprised of community volunteers who have raised nearly $2 million in private funding for technology, furnishings and ...

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The Guardian (blog)
Save Our Libraries: Readers' reports
The Guardian (blog)
I am a friend of Stony Stratford Library. In January 2011, we asked the community to borrow every book (16000) in our library in protest of its proposed closure. We received worldwide press coverage including the New Yorker, Sunday Times, Private Eye ...
On borrowed timeFinancial Times

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NJ.com
Westfield Library donation helps fund re-upholstery of chairs in Youth ...
NJ.com
Seeing children enjoy their time at the library is very rewarding experience, and our foundation hopes to help fund other projects of this kind-- as our funds allow." He added that "collaborations between public and private enterprises represent a very ...

County 10
Dubois Branch Library serves community and school with more than just books
County 10
Built in 2002 primarily with private funding and a “bit of” public funding, the Dubois Branch Library offers free Wi fi connection (available 24/7), free use of laptops and computer stations, as well as books, books on tape and DVD's.

County 10
Dubois Branch Library serves community and school with more than just books
County 10
Built in 2002 primarily with private funding and a “bit of” public funding, the Dubois Branch Library offers free Wi fi connection (available 24/7), free use of laptops and computer stations, as well as books, books on tape and DVD's.

The Guardian
James Patterson dominates library lending, with 2.3m loans in 2011
The Guardian
With book lovers up and down the country branding library closures criminal, perhaps the stranglehold crime fiction continues to hold on borrowers' hearts should be no surprise. All 10 of the most borrowed titles from the UK's libraries were gritty ...

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Study looking at downtown library needs
Lincoln Journal Star
The $90000 study, funded by private charitable groups, eventually could lead to converting Pershing Center into a city library after the Pinnacle Bank Arena opens in the fall of 2013. In anticipation of closing Pershing as a city auditorium, ...

CBS Local
ACLU wants Wenatchee libraries to stop filtering public computers
Q13 FOX
Marney said the library handle computers the same way it handles books and magazines. It selects which books and magazines will be allowed or not allowed, and it does the same with the internet. “There's public behavior and there's private behavior and ...
Great moments in public librariesSound Politics

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Steve Scauzillo: First lady's fight against fat
Pasadena Star-News
MY private tour of the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens last Friday took me off the beaten path. We walked on a dirt path, past the original orange groves that Henry Huntington had planted. It's not listed on the map of the 207 acres but it's ...

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