When Colin Campbell Ross was sent to the gallows at the Old Melbourne Gaol in 1922, few would have guessed his name would be cleared by a humble librarian more than 80 years later.“The curious case of the librarian and the detective,” from Australia’s The Age.
Kevin Morgan was the librarian, historian and author whose book, Gun Alley, was instrumental to Ross receiving a pardon in 2008 for his wrongful conviction for the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in a Melbourne alley.
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And be open to new career paths—the reason you went to library school might not be the job you end up choosing.
— Claire the Cataloger and Undercover Shelf, this week’s Five Question Friday interviewee
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And be open to new career paths—the reason you went to library school might not be the job you end up choosing.
— Claire the Cataloger and Undercover Shelf, this week’s Five Question Friday interviewee
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In a strongly worded opinion, US District Judge Denise Cote rejected requests by Apple and five book publishers to throw out a class action suit that accuses them of price-fixing.
Citing ongoing state, federal and international antitrust investigations, Cote turned down arguments that Apple and the publishers had acted independently when they changed the pricing model for e-books.
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We know it has different a origin story than Marvel Comics (and Joss Whedon) gave in The Avengers, but we thought you might like to look at how Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire imagined the beginning of supervillain/Norse god Loki from their D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths.
Artist Hannah Friederichs celebrates Maurice Sendak and The Avengers. To see how she did it, check out her Tumblr page.
This 50 Shades of Grey thing is perfectly fun to sit back and watch.
But it’s an interesting library discussion. The book isn’t only being challenged or removed—it isn’t being made available in the first place. Librarians and library leaders are choosing not to include the book in the collection. If the library purchased the book, like they did in Flordia, they’re now going back and pulling it after reading reviews (though not before reading the book itself).
Discuss?
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Well, this was yesterday, but still - these prints are gorgeous. Just a sample of the inspiration you can find at the library.
Today, on May 10, 1866, Russian painter and stage designer Leon Bakst was born. Check out some of his costume designs in the Library’s Digital Gallery.
Lovely.
Libraries Own Random House Ebooks
At the Massachusetts Library Association annual conference in Worcester this morning, Ruth Liebmann, director of account marketing at Random House, stated emphatically that libraries own the ebooks they purchase from Random House.
WHEN A WRITER PITCHES A PERSONAL ESSAY ABOUT HIS SEX LIFE
Thankfully this is not a problem at Library Journal.
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