Dear Fair Readers,
As many of you know, I have been on vacation in Florida. It was a great, and needed, time to relax and spend time with friends. I will get back to posting soon.
For now, I leave you with this thought. How can libraries help in Haiti? I, for one, think over the coming months and years libraries will have a great opportunity to help the Haitian people. Proper information may have helped decrease the toll taken on the people of this proud nation.
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A recent article in the NYTimes describes the actions of libraries to help patrons avoid costly overdue fines by donating food. While this is nothing new for libraries, it is always great for major papers to provide us some much need publicity.
Of course the Annoyed Librarian is opposed to this. But lucky for us, she is just a constant nay-sayer with no real clout or input.
The director of the Denver library system states, “The library philosophy is: We do not want to restrict access to information. The use of fines or harsh collection tactics — and we could potentially do that — could essentially restrict people’s access to the library.” This is a great way to put it!!!
Filed under information activist
I am so proud of all the work the library has done. This new library will totally rock!!!
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The Information Activist Librarian 