Tag: Libraries

A Payne in the Bush : Fundraising Scandal at the Bush Presidential Library

With no more campaigns to raise money for it seems that the Bush machine has set its sites on the Bush Presidential Library.In the spirit of Sacha Baron Cohen the Sunday Times of London arranged and recorded an interview between a leading GOP activist Stephen Payne and two men thought to be acting on behalf of the exiled former president of Kyrgyzstan.Payne, who also sits on the Homeland Security advisory board, is heard offering meetings with high-level officials of the Bush Administration in return for a hefty donation to the Bush Presidential Library. For somewhere between $600,000 and $750,000, with...

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Bookmobile 2.0

Welcome to the all new Digital Bookmobile, the world's first bookmobile without books. This 18 wheeler is 69 feet long and packed with the latest digital technologies. It was created by Over Drive to be used as an outreach tool for public libraries to promote their digital offerings.How it works:"The Digital Bookmobile, developed inside a high-tech tractor-trailer, will present programs that promote the host library’s download digital media catalog and ‘virtual branch’ website. The vehicle is customized for each library event and equipped with broadband Internet-connected PCs, high definition monitors, premium sound systems, and a variety of portable media players....

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Her Name Was Book

She came into the world as Joyce Columbia Bernur and when she left it in February of last year she was Joyce Columbia Book. She also left $77,000 to the Berkeley Public Library.Book lived in the Berkeley area for the whole of her adult life and beside her love of reading and libraries she was also an early supporter of animal rights.BPL Community Relations Librarian Alan Bern told the East Bay Express that in her later years "She was once heard to say that she wished she could just move into that library and live there for the rest of...

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Saddam Hussein’s Papers at Stanford : Watergate on Steroids?

An archive of close to 7 million documents taken from Saddam Hussein's Baath party headquarters will be temporarily housed at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.The Iraq Memory Foundation (IMF), a Washington, D.C. based group, has been in possession of the archive since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq five years ago. After spending time in the basement of the foundation director's parents home in Baghdad and at a U.S. military facility in West Virginia where they were digitized the archive has now been moved to Stanford.According to Richard Sousa, senior associate director at Hoover, the institution's agreement with the IMF...

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Cedar Rapids Library, R.I.P.

What the five feet of water that flooded the building didn't destroy the mold and humidity did. Officials now believe that at least two-thirds of the collection is done for.Marie Devries, of the Library's Foundation staff says "It's hopefully something we will never experience again. It's obviously a once-in-a-lifetime experience. There's nothing to compare it to."Fortunately, the only books that escaped the devastation were the children's books.More photos hereStory at KCRG-TV

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