Libraries do balancing act as mentally ill find refuge Quiet place draws the troubled By Jennifer Brown The Denver Post Posted: 04/29/2009 12:30:00 AM MDT Updated: 04/29/2009 08:54:45 AM MDT Joe Cunningham, 62, homeless and bipolar, spends his day at the Denver Public Library downtown. A new study finds nine in 10 library staffers nationally [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Crime and Punishment printed in nine minutes at Britain’s first ‘book vending machine’ Crime and Punishment may take the average reader several months to complete, but Britain’s first “book vending machine” can print you a copy in just nine minutes. By Matthew Moore Last Updated: 10:33AM BST 28 Apr 2009 A freshly-bound edition of [...]
After this semester, I’m within one course and my practicum of earning my MLIS degree. Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel is encouraging, but to be honest I’ve loved the intellectual stimulation of graduate school – even the occasional sense of being “under the gun,” in a crunch to finish a paper, [...]
From: http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/project/english/index.html “The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote [...]
Tom Matlack, one of the gents working for the Good Men Foundation, is my guest poster today. Swing by and check out the website. There’s also an Essay Contest running now through May, and it’s for a great cause: “There is no more important question at this moment in history–with markets collapsing, corruption rampant, two foreign wars, environmental [...]
