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California colleges have been home to several protests lately, but one that happened yesterday at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) seems to make sense.
Yesterday, university students broke into a UCSD library that had been closed over the summer due to budget cuts. They were not trying to steal or damage anything. They were not trying to make a political statement. They just wanted a place to study for finals. [Read more…]
The Washington DC Public Library has decided to give two months of amnesty to anyone that owes the library a fine or a fee for losing, damaging, or not returning a borrowed product that belongs to the library. [Read more…]
One of the most popular requests we receive from our visitors is where to find obituaries. People want to know where they can find local obituaries both in print and online. Well, you can now find local obituaries on our Public Libraries site. [Read more…]
It looks like Harvard is going to stand out from the rest of the Massachusetts colleges in yet another way. Last month, the Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society announced that The Sloan Foundation and Arcadia Fund would donate $5 million to develop the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). [Read more…]
Penguin issued a statement today saying that they had restored their ebooks to libraries earlier this morning. They specifically pointed out that their titles can be checked out in the Kindle format. New releases from Penguin will still not be available at libraries. [Read more…]