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Showing posts with label Los Angeles Public Library. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Los Angeles Public Library. Show all posts
8/18/25
A FRENCH PERSPECTIVE OF THE SUNSET STRIP MUSIC SCENE
WHY DID THEY FAIL TO PUT THE YEAR = 2025 =
ON THIS POSTCARD TO ADVERTISE THE EXHIBIT?
9/11/24
6/27/11
SENIOR CITIZENS READING ELECTRONIC BOOKS
I've been noticing some senior citizens - my guess in their late sixties through eighties - reading from electronic book readers. This is a sign that even seniors (who statistically tend not to use the internet, e-mail, or cell phones, or social networking sites) are taking to the light weight and less-expensive-than-a-paper-copy download. At the library electronic books are also downloadable at no charge. There is no renewal. When the book is due it goes poof! So no chance of a library fine.
HOW DOES A WRITER GET PAID for books that go poof?
HOW DOES A WRITER GET PAID for books that go poof?
11/12/10
THOSE LITTLE LIBRARY PENCILS ARE A WASTE OF MONEY!
As you may know, I blog a bit about LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY. Recently a librarian expressed to me the waste of money that those little (about 3 1/2 inch presharpened) pencils are. NOBODY WANTS TO SHARPEN THEM! And I do, but they are good for about ONE SHARPEN before they become near impossible to put into the electric sharpener. And at that length they dig into a person's hand. They are uncomfortable to use as well.
WHY NOT JUST BUY FULL LENGTH PENCILS THAT HAVE MORE SHARPENING LIFE IN THEM? I see these sold for as low as $1.00 a six pack!
WHY NOT JUST BUY FULL LENGTH PENCILS THAT HAVE MORE SHARPENING LIFE IN THEM? I see these sold for as low as $1.00 a six pack!
8/11/08
WHY MARK TWAIN IS NOT ENDANGERED AT LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY WHILE I BOUGHT SEVERAL NADINE GORDIMER's FOR 25 CENTS
.... Because teachers still have children read Mark Twain, books by Mark Twain are still represented on the shelves of Los Angeles Public Library.
The library's funds have been so cut that according to a librarian I spoke with very recently, there HAS WAS NO BOOK BUYING BETWEEN JANUARY and JUNE 2008.
If you go to the LAPL start page you can follow the links to suggest a book purchase. This is something I do frequently. I was frustrated that not a single book I suggested had been purchased.
ON THE BRANCH level, any FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY GROUP can designate some of the funds that are earned through volunteer driven book sales be used for buying books that librarians at that branch prioritize. Librarians in general are NOT HAPPY WITH THE POPULAR LIBRARY MENTALITY OF LAPL...
"Popular Library" means that if a book is NOT TAKEN OUT FREQUENTLY it will be targeted to be taken off the shelf and make it to a free book cart, twenty five cent buy-a-book shelf, at a Friends sale, be donated elsewhere, or even make it to the Garbage Can. "Popular Library" means that if a book is a best seller there may be dozens of that title purchased, distributed among many branches.
Thus Pulitzer Prize winning South African writer Nadine Gordimer, who early on revealed herself to write political protest fiction as she plotted her characters through apartide, because she is not 'well read' by library patrons, got the boot based on not being well known among the general public of Los Angeles, while classic Mark Twain remains.
I have a suggestion to those of you who have library accounts at LAPL and favorite authors who are not 'well read.' Take out that author's books from time to time just to send a signal to a system that may well be more computerized than based on the knowledge and wisdom of expensively educated and intelligent librarians!
The library's funds have been so cut that according to a librarian I spoke with very recently, there HAS WAS NO BOOK BUYING BETWEEN JANUARY and JUNE 2008.
If you go to the LAPL start page you can follow the links to suggest a book purchase. This is something I do frequently. I was frustrated that not a single book I suggested had been purchased.
ON THE BRANCH level, any FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY GROUP can designate some of the funds that are earned through volunteer driven book sales be used for buying books that librarians at that branch prioritize. Librarians in general are NOT HAPPY WITH THE POPULAR LIBRARY MENTALITY OF LAPL...
"Popular Library" means that if a book is NOT TAKEN OUT FREQUENTLY it will be targeted to be taken off the shelf and make it to a free book cart, twenty five cent buy-a-book shelf, at a Friends sale, be donated elsewhere, or even make it to the Garbage Can. "Popular Library" means that if a book is a best seller there may be dozens of that title purchased, distributed among many branches.
Thus Pulitzer Prize winning South African writer Nadine Gordimer, who early on revealed herself to write political protest fiction as she plotted her characters through apartide, because she is not 'well read' by library patrons, got the boot based on not being well known among the general public of Los Angeles, while classic Mark Twain remains.
I have a suggestion to those of you who have library accounts at LAPL and favorite authors who are not 'well read.' Take out that author's books from time to time just to send a signal to a system that may well be more computerized than based on the knowledge and wisdom of expensively educated and intelligent librarians!
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