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NEA Literature Director Spared a Mockingbird Lunch
by Staff
Kelleys Island, Ohio, recently became the first community in the country to reach 100 percent participation in the National Endowment for the Arts’ Big Read program, saving the NEA’s literature director from having to eat his words—or, rather, Harper Lee’s words.
Oregon County to Close All of Its Libraries
by Staff
A rural county in southern Oregon is scheduled to close all of its libraries after losing seven million dollars of federal funding. On April 7, Jackson County, Oregon, will close fifteen library branches and lay off approximately one hundred employees. While other library systems have recently faced closure, including Salinas and Merced counties in California, and Niagara Falls, New York, they have each found ways to avoid shutting down.
Q&A: Briccetti's Big Move Downtown
by Timothy Schaffert
January/February 2007
Executive director of Poets House Lee Briccetti talks about the relocation and expansion of the country's largest poetry library.
Strangers Meet in Virtual Libraries
by C. Max Magee
July/August 2006
A computer programmer and former employee of Houghton Mifflin launches Library Thing, a Web site designed to re-create library-gazing online.
Resurrecting an Ancient Library
by Reza Aslan
November/December 2002
Two thousand years after it was destroyed by fire, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina—the mythic Egyptian library that at one time boasted a universal collection of everything ever written—as reopened to the public on October 16.
Flood Relief Fund for Libraries: Postcard From Prague
by Linda Lappin
Witnesses looked on in anguish as the murky flood waters of the Vltava River surged over Prague, one of the world's greatest literary cities-home of Kafka, Kundera, Hrabal, and Havel.
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