One of the nicest online collections I’ve seen, and seasonlly appropriate: the photographs of Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley at the Schwerdtfeger Library at UW. [thanks rebecca]
crossing fingers
New York City is voting on their anti-PATRIOT Act resolution today. Hopefully we’ll have good news tomorrow.
it’s calendar time again!
A few little birds have told me that it’s calendar time again this year. In this one, librarians pose naked for charity. Maybe American libraries will start doing this as a way to raise funds for their own libraries.[thanks all]
cartoon
Do you think you’d really like it if your library were more like Amazon.com?[thanks rus]
sell the books to raise the cash?
Tough decisions with falling stock prices. Do you sell the nice books to fix the library? The library director of the Providence Athenaeum didn’t think so, he’s resigned and the debate is growing ugly.