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Libraries & librarians

• What’s the future for the UK’s local libraries?

  Yesterday, Arts Council England (ACE) published its report into the future of local libraries. ‘Envisioning the library of the future’ is ‘a major research project undertaken over the past year’ during… Read more »

• Plans unveiled for NYC’s Donnell Library

  The New York Public Library officially unveiled the architectural plans today for the long-left-in-limbo Donnell Branch on 53rd Street. The good news is that it’s nice and airy-looking. The bad… Read more »

• What will the “Big Library Read” reveal about the potential for ebook marketing in libraries?

  At the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting in January 2013, Eric Hellman, the founder of GlueJar, a start-up devoted to relicensing ebooks under the Creative Commons license, presented an idea… Read more »

• 6 Manchester libraries set to close

  In the continuing losing battle to save England’s local libraries, it’s been announced that Manchester will most likely lose six of its libraries within weeks, if the council’s proposed cuts… Read more »

• Brooklyn Public Library to hold biking fundraiser this weekend

  As part of its annual Support the Branches fundraiser efforts, the Brooklyn Public Library is holding a charity bike event this Saturday, called Bike the Branches. A borough-wide celebration of… Read more »

• Goals and controversies on National Library Legislative Day

  Today is National Library Legislative Day, when librarians will visit the 112th Congress to make the case for legislators to support libraries on a rage of issues, including ebooks, elementary… Read more »

• Reading as performance

  The Quiet Volume, an installation art exhibit about the reading experience, is up this week at NYU’s Bobst Library and the Schomburg Center. The brainchild of Ant Hampton and Tim… Read more »

• Cataloging Guantanamo: inside the detention camp’s library

  Although Barack Obama came into office promising to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, both that promise and the prison itself have largely and unfortunately been ignored by both… Read more »

• German Federal Archives acquire forged Hitler diaries

  If you wait long enough, an epic scam becomes part of the historical record. At least, that’s what has happened to the famous forged “Hitler Diaries” which have just been… Read more »

• Lambeth Palace recovers 1,400 stolen publications, thanks to thief’s note

  A sealed letter from a former employee of the library at Lambeth Palace, home to the Archbishop of Canterbury, revealed the location of thousands of books he had stolen from… Read more »