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Barack O'Llama Visits Nixon Library and Museum
By Chris Epting - AOL NewsThe slow-moving procession crossing the busy intersection next to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif., was truly a traffic stopper. After all, how often is it that drivers and pedestrians get a chance to see Barack O'Llama and the Dalai Llama up close and personal entering the museum grounds? Actually, it happens several times a week. See, this is the route that the folks behind ShangriLlama often take as they allow people to experience "llama walks." It all started a couple of years ago when Paul and Sharon Brucato of Yorba Linda noticed their son ...
Jefferson's Books Found in Mo. University Library
By not in system - AOL NewsDozens of Thomas Jefferson's books have been found in the rare books collection at Washington University in St. Louis. Scholars are now poring through the 28 titles and 74 volumes, searching for the occasional handwritten note from the nation's third president. And librarians say it's possible more of Jefferson's books will be found in the school's collection. The school announced the discovery Monday, on Presidents Day. Librarians say Jefferson's books were sold after his death to settle debts. His granddaughter, Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, bid on many of the books. When she and her ...
Rare Volumes of Shakespeare Donated for Library Sale
By Michael McLaughlin - AOL News
(Nov. 17) -- Parting is such sweet sorrow, William Shakespeare wrote. But it doesn't have to be -- just ask book lovers in Springfield, Mo. Rare volumes of the Bard's plays and poetry were found last month among the dog-eared copies of popular romance paperbacks and thrillers that had been donated for the local library system's book sale. Springfield-Greene County Library District What a find! During a book drive, someone gave a copy of the rare 1774 book "Poems Written by Shakespear" (spelled without an "e" at the end) to the Springfield-Greene County Library District. The tomes, ...
E-Readers Are Rock Stars, but My Heart Belongs to Hardcovers
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyFor my mother's 79th birthday later this month, her four children are going to give her an e-reader. We have yet to decide which one to give her, but she's very keen to join this trend. As a frequent traveler, and avid reader, she finds that she's always lugging 12 hard-cover books wherever she goes (often London to visit me!). So she'd like to lighten her load. Apparently, several of her friends already have e-readers and they are all thrilled with them. I have mixed feelings about this present. On the one hand, as someone who -- by her own admission -- barely has running water and ...
The Death of the Library: Read It and Weep
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyI walked into my local public library in London the other day and got a rude shock. All of my favorite librarians were gone. They'd been replaced by machines. Where the circulation desk once stood -- manned by a friendly soul with whom I'd chat about politics or the weather or the latest London Review of Books -- I now swiped my library card and pushed a button that said "borrow" or "return." They'd also done some remodeling. This particular branch sits in an elegant 1930s building located in the garden of the house where the poet John Keats wrote his "Ode to a Nightingale." The main room -- ...
Shhh! That's the Sound of Public Libraries Closing
By Scott Martelle - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES (March 27) -- Massive budget cuts that have already led to furloughs for government workers and increased class sizes for public school teachers are claiming another victim: libraries. The Los Angeles Board of Library Commissioners this week ordered nine city libraries to close on Sundays, citing a city government hiring freeze that will keep it from replacing an estimated 200 retiring library workers. And in Pasadena, home to academic powerhouse Caltech, public school officials say they'll close school libraries next year, among other cuts, if a local tax measure doesn't pass in ...
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