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1 hr ago | FLA Jobline

Library Director / CEO - Lakeland Library Region - North Battleford, SK

Library Director / CEO - Lakeland Library Region - North Battleford, SK LIBRARY DIRECTOR/CEO LAKELAND LIBRARY REGION North Battleford, Sask.

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6 hrs ago | This is Dorset

Fond farewell at Portland's Tophill Library

Jackie Chater has closed the book on her time at Tophill Library on Portland after 20 years.

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10 hrs ago | Oregonlive.com

If Beaverton gets two public libraries, why does Aloha have none?

Eric Squires welcomed the recent announcement that Beaverton will open in 2010 a new library in the Murrayhill area.

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Related Topix: Aloha, OR, Beaverton, OR, Washington County, OR, Banks, OR

15 hrs ago | Customer Interaction Solutions

Coach says he was told library cameras weren't working

Video from the Richland Public Library's surveillance system helped clear up a "he said, she said" dispute about an alleged assault on an autistic boy, but some have questioned why it took so long to find the visual evidence.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Will Google Books Settlement 2.0 quell concerns?

Monday is the deadline for Google Inc. and other parties in the landmark books lawsuit to submit a revised settlement proposal, but some already say it won't be enough to satisfy critics.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

The Valley Post

Capitola Library Likely to Remain on Wharf Road

A citizen's ad hoc committee, the library director and residents in attendance Nov.

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Related Topix: Capitola, CA, Soquel, CA, Aptos, CA, Santa Cruz Metro

DispatchPolitics

Voters in 4 areas backing new library taxes

Voters supported four of five area libraries seeking first-time tax levies last night, mirroring a statewide trend.

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Related Topix: Columbus, OH, Columbus Metro, Pickerington, OH, Sunbury, OH

Roanoke Times

Roanoke Public Libraries Cause Breathlessness

Proof that libraries are full of excitement! Guest blogger River Laker, Resource Development Coordinator, Roanoke Public Libraries, shares an overview of his participation and experience at the Virginia Library Association Annual Conference, Williamsburg, VA October 29-30, 2009.

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Related Topix: Roanoke, VA, Roanoke Metro, Blog News, Williamsburg, VA

Star-Gazette.COM

Chemung library tax increase approved

Chemung County Library District voters on Tuesday voted 3,466-2,154 to approve a $2.4 million budget for 2010 that carries a 1.18 percent tax-levy increase, unofficial results show.

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Related Topix: Tax, Chemung County, NY, Chemung, NY, Elmira Metro

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Asahi Shimbun

EDITORIAL: Role of school libraries

School libraries are a wonderland of knowledge most familiar to children. The school library law, which came into effect in 1954, defines school libraries as essential, fundamental facilities and requires all elementary, junior and senior high schools to have one.

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Story Times at the Pelham Library

Pelham Public Library 24 Village Green Pelham, NH 03076 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Contact: Debbie Laffond, Children's Librarian Phone: 635-7581 ext.

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Related Topix: Pelham, NH

J's scratchpad

NEASIS&T Talk The Library is dead. Long Live The Library! The...

NEASIS&T Talk The Library is dead. Long Live The Library! The Rebirth of Libraries in the 21st Century MIT Media Lab Dec 8 9 am NEASIS&T is holding a program called "The library is dead.

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Montgomery Advertiser

Library program expanded access

Thomas P. Davis should be commended for his Alabama Voices column 'Working Together Pays Off.' The Network of Alabama Academic Libraries under the leadership of Dr.

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Community Press

Donation - to bump up' Tweed library's children's department

Tweed a ' With fundraising for the new library about to hit full speed, a donation received last week will benefit the children's department prior to the move.

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The Advocate

ELECTION: Three tax levies pass, but library loses bid

PATASKALA -- Levies passed for Licking Heights Local Schools, the West Licking Fire Renewal and Harrison Township Roads, but the Pataskala Public Library lost its bid to pass its 0.49-mill issue.

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Related Topix: Pataskala, OH, Licking County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Pickerington, OH

Wed Nov 04, 2009

KTVX

USU Press merging with school's library

The Utah State University Press is merging with the Merrill-Cazier Library. The university made the announcement Monday and says the partnership will officially start at the beginning of the 2011 fiscal year next summer.

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WisInfo

Marathon voters OK new library

MARATHON -- Voters in Marathon on Tuesday approved building a $550,000 public library by an overwhelming margin of 86 percent to 14 percent.

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Related Topix: Marathon, WI, 9, Marathon County, WI

ABC News - Brian Ross

Ohio Voters OK New Taxes for 30 Library Systems

Voters in a number of Ohio communities came to the aid of public libraries that have been cutting hours and staff due to state budget cuts.

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Related Topix: Ohio

Newindpress

Google admits to scanning books

BEIJING: Google has admitted to having scanned more than 20,000 books under Chinese copyright protection, a media report said Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science / Technology, Internet

SiliconValley.com

Google's desire to scan old books has critics casting it as Goliath

Google's ambitious plan to scan millions of old, out of print books, many of them forgotten in musty university libraries, has turned into one of the biggest controversies in the young company's history.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Software, San Francisco Metro, US News

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