Entertainer Dolly Parton has succeeded where many legislators and politicos have not. Tennessee has finally granted sufficient funding for a state-wide program entitled the “Imagination Library”, ...

madcow writes “Kottke’s blog has an interesting take on Google’s evolution from a search thingy to something else. Call it a web OS if you will.” ...

For those of you who haven’t yet heard…Leslie Burger has been elected the new President of the American Library Association for 2006-2007, in an election with fewer votes cast than last year.

Search-Engines writes “As Seen On CNN: The world’s second richest man – who’s now worth $44 billion – tells editor-at-large Carol Loomis he will start giving away 85% of his wealth in July – most of ...

A concerned member of Namibia’s Library and Information Council suggests that to young readers, “a book is not just a book.” We could easily stock our libraries with thousands of volumes of the works ...

A report on the future of public libraries from the prestigious Carnegie Trust has been slammed as “over-optimistic”, amid calls for it to be withdrawn. Leading library campaigner Tim Coates has filed ...

New DPLA program funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will produce workshops and education modules to train public librarians in digitization, metadata creation, and digital technologies ...

On buttons, posters and Web sites, the image was everywhere during last year’s presidential campaign: A pensive Barack Obama looking upward, as if to the future, splashed in a Warholesque red, white ...

The first phase of an initiative to modernize Iraqi libraries into the digital world is complete thanks to a team from the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the U.S. Defense and ...

Jay writes “The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has a its new weblog called ACRLog. The blog is authored by a group of academic librarians referred as the BAB (Blog Advisory Board ...

One out of every four adult Americans did not read a book last year, according to a poll conducted by the Associated Press and Ipsos. Pennsylvania librarians respond: “I was disgusted by that” said ...

mdoneil writes “Charges have been filed against a Clackamas, Oregon man for using library computers and MySpace to facilitate illegal liberties with children. The author of the article rambles on ...