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Published: 12/7/10

Texas Woman Jailed for Overdue Library Books

By  Ben Muessig - AOL News
Texas Woman Jailed for Overdue Library Books

(Dec. 7) -- Authorities threw the book at a woman who had a few overdue library books. Police in Baytown, Texas, say they locked up Jessekah Few last month after the 25-year-old failed to show up in court for a hearing about unreturned library books. "It's not a very common charge," Baytown Police Department Detective Alan Cliburn told WSAV.com. http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=686529&pid=686528&uts=1291761053 ...

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Published: 06/15/10

Woman Accused of Dumping Mayo on Library Books

By  Michelle Ruiz - AOL News
Woman Accused of Dumping Mayo on Library Books

(June 15) -- Idaho police believe they've nabbed Boise's messiest reader. Since May 2009, officials have been on the lookout for a person who has been smearing mustard, mayo and other barbecue staples on more than 100 library books. Boise police now say they've cracked the curious case of the condiments, arresting 74-year-old Joy L. Cassidy outside Boise's Ada County Library on Sunday. They said Cassidy had dumped an open jar of mayo into the library's book drop moments earlier. ...

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Published: 06/5/10

The Death of the Library: Read It and Weep

By  Delia Lloyd - Politics Daily
The Death of the Library: Read It and Weep

I 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 They'd been replaced by machines.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 -- ...

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Published: 03/24/10

Hometown Library Honors Marian Wright Edelman -- and Her Passion

By  Mary C. Curtis - Politics Daily
Hometown Library Honors Marian Wright Edelman -- and Her Passion

BENNETTSVILLE, S.C. -- It's impossible to keep up with Marian Wright Edelman when she is talking about her passion. She wants every child to be healthy, well educated and able to fulfill a dream. The words -- focused and strong -- spill out, too fast to write them down, too fast, you swear, for a tape recorder to catch them all. On Sunday, her admirers talked about Edelman's "charm" and "relentlessness" when she returned to her South Carolina hometown for another honor in her long career of advocacy, one that will benefit the children she cherishes. The president of the Children's Defense ...

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