December 2011
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Suspicious Package Near Cheshire Library Was Bag... →
washingtonpoststyle:
Meanwhile, in Connecticut.
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Watchlavacheestdanslepre:
Head librarian Constance MacDonald dishes on how to maximize your library experience.
Study: Library Users Drive Consumer Sales →
thelifeguardlibrarian:
Library Journal’s Library Hotline’s survey:
50% of all library users go on to buy books by an author they were first introduced to at the library;
20% of library users are “power patrons.” They visit the library at least once a week, borrow all types of media, and are active buyers of books and other media, including e-books;
Power patrons are more likely to vote at a...
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Heroin found in file at UK National Archives →
nocompromise-noregrets:
…see? Archives are not boring! You never know what you might find… O.O
(closest I’ve ever come to that is finding an envelope stuffed full of locks of hair of various members of the family whose papers I was cataloguing, painstakingly labelled in the hand of one of them - including a packet which turned out to be the only clue I ever got that this woman had had a baby...
“Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would...”
– Karen Russell, Swamplandia! (via booksijustread)
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