Category: libraries
patron confidentiality put to the test
Not a USAPA story but close to it, a real world example of cops coming to a library to try to obtain patron information and the library saying “no.” [thanks jonathan]
vatican library cataloging hurdles
Vatican library says that if they keep cataloging at this rate, they’ll be done in 350 years or so, maybe “only” 40 to get just an outline of the collection. Read about some of the hassles involved in cataloging for the Vatican Library.
Proverbio pulls out a small, notebook-sized Turkish manuscript containing economic data about the Ottoman Empire in the mid 1600s.It’s missing the first eight pages and the last few pages. There’s no author listed, date or index. Yet it’s full of nuggets of information that might be of interest to scholars – so much so that Proverbio has produced 10 pages of catalogue information and he’s only halfway through. How long has it taken? “Two months, I’m ashamed to say,” he says. [thanks jude]
free comic book day rides again
Free Comic Book Day is coming up on July 3rd this year. [catalogablog]
swear at librarian, leave the library
“Self described library activist” says F-word to a librarian, gets banned from the library. Interestingly, I know that guy, he used to do his library activism in Seattle and would chat me up when I was teaching computer classes. [thanks tom]