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Pratchett, Terry, 1948- I shall wear midnight. FANTASY /PRAT

Cunningham, Michael. By nightfall. F /CUNN

French, Dawn, 1957- A tiny bit marvellous. F…

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Westbury book exchange in Somerset, England claims to be the smallest library in the world.

It is inside a red telephone booth.

Does anyone know of a smaller library?

More pics at http://www.offbeatearth.com/quiet-at-the-library/…

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Local residents pull together to create an Open air library in Magdeburg Germany. The idea is that you just walk up and take a book out of a hole in the wall and bring it back when you are finished. Sounds like Utopia.

A court case in America is attempting to conclude whether a Library should be allowed to refuse to disable internet filtering software. One question the case has raised is "Is the Internet a collection unto itself or can a collection development policy be applied to it, thus blocking constitutionally protected speech?" Currently US libraries are required to unblock sites on the request of an adult, US vs. ALA 2003, which the library in question has not done. The case itself seems to be a… Continue

Three major library groups, in comments filed today in federal district court, say they don’t oppose the pending Google Book Search Settlement, but warned that high costs and opaque controls “could compromise fundamental library values such as equity of access to information, patron privacy, and intellectual freedom.” http://bit.ly/2lZeKx



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District of Columbia Public Library has created an iphone application that allows borrowers to access the library catalogue from their iphone. It allows them to search, see the item cover and place holds. One borrower who downloaded the application from itunes said, 'I think this works better than the web catalog interface! Well done.' Read on



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The Independent a UK newspaper has released a short list of the best business books of all time!
It includes such titles as The Great Crash by J.K Galbraith, Capitalism Unleashed by Andrew Glyn and When markets collide by Mohamed El-Erian.

I saw this article in Library Journal about a new digital library called Europeana. It got 10 million hits per hour and shut up shop. It's going to try and relaunch in mid December.