In The Telegraph Laura Roberts notes that Two thirds of Britons have not been to the library in the last year.
Data from the government surveyTaking Part: The National Survey of Culture, Leisure and Sport Adult and Child Report 2009/10.
UK Library Use Declines. No. 8.25.2010. 32.
August 25th, 2010Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. No. 8.25.2010.31.
August 25th, 2010
The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library is a public benefit, nonprofit organization championing the literary, artistic, and cultural contributions of the late writer, artist and Indiana native Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The Library is creating a library that will also serve as a cultural and educational resource center, functioning as a museum, art gallery, and reading room for readers, writers, and students. In addition, the library will support language and visual arts education for the local community. The KVML has been offered free space for the library by Katz and Korin, PC at the Emelie Bldg. in Indianapolis. The library will have 1,100 square feet to fill. The library is expected to open in Fall 2010.
“The Book as Sculpture”.No. 8.25.2010.30
August 25th, 2010The Guenzel Gallery is the center of activity and the art-filled entry point for students, art appreciators and visitors to the Peninsula School of Art.
“The Book as Sculpture.”
August 13-September 25
Opening Reception: Friday, August 13, 5-7pm
Due to the increased reliance on the internet and other electronic media, words on paper have become less precious in their original application. Seeing ink on paper for both its textural quality and possibility for layered meanings, artists are utilizing books as a medium for expressive, sculptural forms. From large-scale installations, to fine jewelry, this exhibition displays the varied, cutting edge works of today’s prominent sculptural book artists
The Art of American Book Covers. No. 8.20.2010. 29
August 20th, 2010The Art of American Book Covers.
Feel free to judge this book by its cover—a sumptuous red cloth with a dazzling gold-stamped design; or by its illustrations—more than 100 full color plates exquisitely reproduced; or by its text—an introductory essay and meticulous captions written by the much-admired book artist Richard Minsky, founder of the Center for Book Arts in New York City. The Art of American Book Covers (AABC) is a prize every collector deserves, particularly those whose interests include book design, decorative bookbindings, women book artists, American Gilded Age literature, or the Arts and Crafts movement.
Minsky writes about a Golden Age of book cover art that lasted from the 1870s until the Great Depression, during which publishers commissioned artists and designers to create exciting, eye-catching covers.
Fabulous Iceland. 8.11.2010.28
August 11th, 2010Iceland will be Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2011. This will provide a unique opportunity to present Icelandic literary culture to
Camden, N.J., preparing to close all its libraries. No. 8.7.2010. 27.
August 7th, 2010Camden, N.J., preparing to close all its libraries.
The library board in Camden, one of the nation’s poorest cities, is preparing to close all three of its branches by the end of the year, saying its funding has been slashed so drastically that it cannot afford to keep operating.
Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010
July 26th, 2010Afghanistan war logs: Story behind biggest leak in intelligence history:
From US military computers to a cafe in Brussels, how thousands of classified papers found their way to online activists
WikiLeaks
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… could become as important a journalistic tool
as the Freedom of Information Act.
Journolist members as VIP Room
July 25th, 2010Mickey Kaus on Journolist:
It was a bad idea, mainly because it took a process that could have been public, democratic and transparent and gratuitously made it private, stratified and opaque. This was an odd move for “progressives” to make when confronted with the revolutionary openness of the Web. It’s as if they’d looked at our great national parks and said hey, what we really need is to carve out a private walled enclave for the well connected. Invited to a terrific party, they immediately set up a VIP room.
I always look at who writes what I read. The participation of individuals in Journolist is just one factor in assigning credibility.
This one is alphabetized.
These lists differ.
Journolist member list is here and here.
Past Chairs of COSWL Together at ALA 2010. No. 7.4.2010. 26.
July 3rd, 2010Two former chairs of the ALA Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship [Katharine J. Phenix, Adult Services Librarian at the Rangeview Public Library in Adams County, CO –seated,in green; Kathleen de la Peña McCook, professor, University of South Florida, Tampa in standing in pink at the 2010 ALA Conference Program on the National Women’s History Museum. Washington. D.C.
Baseball is Like Reading a Book. 5.20. 2010. 25.
May 20th, 2010
“Baseball takes an investment. It is like reading a book. You live with the ups and downs every day.“
–Jim Hickey, Tampa Bay Rays Pitching Coach.