With more than 600 libraries in England alone under threat of closure, according to librarian body CILIP, the National Federation of Women's Institutes voted overwhelmingly in favour of campaigning in their support at their AGM on Wednesday.
The appointment lasts for one year and comes with a $35,000 salary, plus $5,000 for travel and a "splendid office", according to Librarian of Congress James H Billington. "In a society full of rhetorical overstatement and a kind of zigging-in-and-out of all kinds of pontifical disguises, she's got this marvellous, understated depth", Billington said in a recent interview.
It was a blustery day, and the two — a military man and his fiancée, according to librarians — wanted a place they could finish their nuptials away from the chill at Grand Army Plaza.
Which group of kids does the "Underpants" series most appeal to, according to school librarian Beth Vigil?
Maybe once a month someone asks to see it, according to the librarian, but nothing has been added since 1985.
He visited the local library in the wig, according to a librarian at the Rosenberg Library who remembered him, dressed as a woman, sitting occasionally in the computer room.
The first governor of Texas to live in the governor's mansion that is now home to Mr. Bush was Elisha Pease, governor from 1853 to 1857, according to Eric Travis, librarian at the Austin History Center.
Once completed, the river will flow freely for the first time since 1642 when a dam was built to power the town's first gristmill, according to Ronald Marcus, librarian at the Stamford Historical Society.
$150 million is actually the NEH's entire budget, according to Annoyed Librarian, a blogger who writes for the Library Journal.
According to RGS librarian Hugh Robert Mill, as early as March 1920 Shackleton had talked about two possible schemes the Beaufort Sea exploration and "an oceanographical expedition with the object of visiting all the little-known islands of the South Atlantic and South Pacific".
The DPLA's original mission statement, according to Harvard University librarian Robert Darnton, was as follows: "An open, distributed network of comprehensive online resources that would draw on the nation's living heritage from libraries, universities, archives, and museums in order to educate, inform, and empower everyone in the current and future generations".
