public libraries still offer one of the best forms of free entertainment - reading. Whether you want to crack open the latest Stephen King novel or listen to an audio book while sipping coffee, these gorgeous libraries will make you forget that Netflix or Facebook even exist!
The early 18th century saw the rise of lending libraries and subscription libraries. This is the type of library that most of you might be familiar with. In a lending library, you can take a book out of the library and bring it home to read. Prior to the development of lending libraries...
There’s a lot that went on but Mum and Dad were always keen on me using the library. There was the mobile library in Newport that visited my primary school (and which I still feel guilt for not returning a book to as we moved to Wiltshire shortly after), the hot pavement over a ...
and so forth–texts that can be in fact far more widely-read than official books and journals but are often not collected because they fall outside the bailiwick of the Library of Congress and university libraries and
To begin, he set his books outside with a sign indicating that they were for public use. He had no idea how people would react. Would the books be stolen? Would people even notice his fledgling library? They did. The books quickly disappeared and soon reappeared, along with donations of...
I know is that I lost my appreciation of the slow pace of making my way through a library and of having books on borrowed time. If my mother ever mentioned to me that she was on the waiting list for some book at the library, I got annoyed and asked why she didn’t just buy it....
CNI was informative and enriching as always. I had the opportunity this time around to participate in the executive roundtable on moving data to the cloud and enjoyed that environment as always. At this event, I chose to take most of my notes using a pen and paper, after reading some tho...
But there are only two academic libraries that were allowed to use the donor’s first name: the Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall in Carnegie. Pa., and Livingstone College. Greensides, Kathy. "Museum Notebook: The man who read himself to wealth." Column: Museum Notebook. nz...
Public librarians should take advantage of this good point to take library services to the grassroots level (Nimsomboon 2003). It is hoped that the public libraries in Asia would adopt a more pro-active ap-proach in seeking out opportunities to deploy their unique skills, expertise and re-...
the parrots are near extinction. The cruelty to these birds is extreme and unnecessary, the number exported are in the thousands, and their habitats are being destroyed. This lucrative trade points to the greed of the Congolese government and that of illegal traders. The birds who survive are...