Posts Tagged ‘libraries’
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
I’ve recently discovered the televised Inspector Rebus series here in Western Canada on the Knowledge Network and am suitably impressed. That’s why an article on BBC regarding the most-borrowed books from Scottish libraries caught my attention - One of Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus books, The Naming of the Dead tops the list.
The top ten list, released by the Public Lending Right, covers books borrowed from July 2007 to June 2008. Interestingly, American author James Patterson is very popular and holds several positions in the most borrowed list. There’s also a definite fondness for crime fiction.
The top ten Books borrowed in Scotland are:
- The Naming of the Dead by Ian Rankin
- The Overlook by Michael Connelly
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
- At Risk by Patricia Cornwell
- Cross by James Patterson
- Judge and Jury by James Patterson & Andrew Gross
- The Quickie by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge
- Death’s Door by Quintin Jardine
- Echo Park by Michael Connelly
- The 6th Target by James Patterson
Tags: crime fiction, Ian Rankin, Inspector Rebus, James Patterson, libraries, library lending list, list, most borrowed library books, Scotland, The Naming of the Dead, Top Ten list
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
The story of the day is from the UK’s Daily Mail….
A multi-millionaire businessman is facing jail for stealing hundreds of pages from rare ancient books worth £500,000 to store in his personal book collection. Iranian-born Farhad Hakimzadeh, 60, expertly cut the pages from treasured travel chronicles stored at the British Library in London and Oxford’s Bodleian for eight years without anyone noticing.
If you want to find out more about a book thief who simply couldn’t help himself, then read A Gentle Madness by Nicholas Basbanes.
Tags: British Library, libraries, rare book thief
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Haunted libraries - there’s a ghost called Lola in a Connecticut library!
Bridgeport Public Library. Some library staff members say they have encountered a ghost in the 6th or 7th floor stacks near the historical materials in this 1927 building. The entity, which they have nicknamed Lola, is said to be friendly and helps find missing items.
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Cornell Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections is going big on hip hop and rap music.
The founding materials in Cornell’s hip hop collection were the gift of collector and author Johan Kugelberg. Materials in the collection form the basis for the book Born in the Bronx: a Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop (November 2007) edited by Johan Kugelberg (author), Afrika Bambaataa (foreword), Buddy Esquire (contributor), Jeff Chang (contributor) and Joe Conzo (photographer).
I can just see the librarians dripping in bling, hanging out with some dirty-assed fly honeys, and digging Gangsta tunes from Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube and 50 Cent. (You can tell I’m white, can’t you?)
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Wisconsin police are cracking down hard on people who don’t return their library books. Question - of all the books to not return, why hang on to two Dan Brown books?
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
The Chicago Tribune reports on how librarians are mixing video games in with the books to sneakily encourage those teenage gamers to become interested in books. Here are a few suggestions from me….
Grand Theft Auto with American Pyscho by Bret Easton Ellis
Guitar Hero with Rock Star by Jackie Collins
Mario with The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Pacman with Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Sim City with Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Some British authors and historians have stopped complaining about the declining number of readers and the death of the book just long enough to draw a breath and start complaining about something new. The British Library has put a real cramp in their life by, and please try to contain your anger upon hearing this, allowing students to use the libraries services.
What gall!
Imagine the horror of having to queue for a service, and in England of all places. Students using libraries, I have never heard of such a preposterous notion.
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Reading Copy
Libraries in the UK are looking at ways to step in to the 21st century.
George at BookNinja echo’s my sentiments almost exactly.
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
A quarter of a million books have gone missing from libraries in Waltham Forest (a small town just outside of London) - book-burners are suspected.
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Reuters has a story about how the British Library is restoring its collection of rare books.
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
One of the world’s greatest libraries, the Bodleian in Oxford, is full, reports The Guardian.
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007
In an interesting New York Times article, a number of top C.E.O.’s (Michael Moritz, Phil Knight, etc) comment on their own personal libraries. Apparently the key to success is “don’t follow your mentors, follow your mentors’ mentors.”
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