LISNews.org

It's been ages since I posted anything about LISNews stats, so here's a few random interesting numbers for the pas few months.
This all covers September 2008 - November 2008
Total Sessions 1,010,8...

For months, more than a dozen library customers of EVA Subscription Services, based in Shrewsbury, MA, have expressed enormous frustration after not receiving periodicals ordered and finding that t...

"The Librarian" by Mikhail Yelizarov.
Winner of the Russian Booker-2008 competition has been awarded in Moscow. The first prize of 20 thousand dollars goes to the young author of the mystic novel “...

Entertainment Weekly:In the third made-for-cable caper, The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice (premieres Dec. 7., 8 p.m. TNT), overworked and unlucky-in-love Flynn travels to New Orleans for va...

Silicon Alley Insider reports that Google is getting set to scale back. Following up on a report by The Wall Street Journal, Silicon Alley Insider detailed some areas that Google might cut back on ...

From FOX News, be forewarned:
A northern Ohio artist known for envelope-pushing holiday displays is back — with Santa Claus in a wheelchair being pushed down stairs by a crazed tree.
The Santa in K...

...from LA Youth, "the newspaper by and about teens". She goes from absolutely hating libraries to proclaiming 'libraries rule'.

"Librarians of the world, unite! You have everything to lose: your books." So warns Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam. In his view its the libraries that get the short end of the stick in the book d...

A Cape Codder of course.
Osterville’s new librarian Lee Ann Amend cut her teeth in library science as a 14-year-old volunteer in a medical library. She shelved volumes, typed catalog cards, and rea...

The images that surfaced of the new Kindle in October are real - it’s a longer device but not as thick as the original Kindle, and fixes some of the button issues that plague users (like accidenta...