Congratulations to Jinny Baeckler director of Plainsboro Public Library in New Jersey.
“We’re the place where community begins,” Ms. Baeckler explains. “The library’s a safe place, it’s a trusted place and we do cool things here.”
She also says the library she runs is unique in its focus on customer service.
“We have very high [...]
Archive for December 8th, 2006
8 Dec
NY Times Librarian of the Year
8 Dec
Big Box Chain Stores and Consumer Identity
An excerpt from the book Big Box Swindle: The Fight to Reclaim America from Retail Giants by Stacy Mitchell is available on AlterNet. In this article, Mitchell provides an interesting historical perspective on chain stores in America and how they encouraged people to think of themselves as consumers rather than citizens.
Most significantly, the chains [...]
8 Dec
Civil Liberties Violations – Two Disturbing Articles
First, an opinion piece by Robert Sheer about Jose Padilla, a US citizen who has been held by the government for 3.5 years and tortured even though initial charges that Padilla plotted to detonate a “dirty bomb” have been dropped. This part of the article pretty much sums up why even in difficult times [...]
8 Dec
Colonial Williamsburg: An Artifact of Popular Culture
Posted by Liam in Ideas, Opinion & Commentary. Tagged: History, Museums, Travel, Williamsburg. Leave a Comment
During my senior year at college and for three years afterwards I worked at the living history museum Colonial Williamsburg. Although my days of wearing a tricorn hat and stockings (and showing of my well-developed calves) are long gone, I still try to keep up with what’s going on in CW and it’s place [...]
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