Ontario's elementary school libraries “ and the retailers and wholesalers that supply them with books “ can breathe a sigh of relief: a much needed influx of funding, promised by Premier Dalton McGuinty during the ... Read More »
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It was supposed to be a new library for a new millennium, but within 24 hours of the launch of Europeana, an EU initiative to store millions of documents in a searchable online repository, the ... Read More »
The longlist for the richest award for writing in English has been announced. And the longlist is, in fact, long, with 147 authors in contention for the 2009 Impac Dublin prize of £100,000. From the ... Read More »
Google will pay $125-million to settle a class-action lawsuit with The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers over its book-scanning project. As part of the agreement, Google will expand its Book Search program ... Read More »
It's the American Library Association's Banned Books Week, and their website features lists of frequently challenged books covering various eras on their website. Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale is 37th on the ALA's list of the ... Read More »
The shortlist for the Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced, and six young writers are in line to win the £60,000 (approximately $114,000 CAD) prize. The global award, given biennially, was established to promote writing ... Read More »
In an effort to attract younger patrons, a compact, pop culture-oriented library - complete with an adjoining coffee shop and video-game stations - is set to open this fall is Langford, B.C. From Shannon Moneo's ... Read More »
There is already more than enough troubling and tawdry whoop-de-doo surrounding Sarah Palin, John McCain's pick for the vice-presidential slot, to make the whole circus worth watching, but this paragraph from a long article in ... Read More »
September 3, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news, Libraries
Contemplating a life in crime? Well, in terms of graft, the prim world of library management is wide open “ or is it? On Wednesday, a Saskatoon judge sentenced Bruce David Cameron to two years ... Read More »
The National Library of India has created a five-person committee to investigate charges that rare books and manuscripts are missing from their collection. The Hindu, India's national newspaper, reports that the Ministry of Cultural Affairs ... Read More »
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