Library News Roundup

A crowd of teenagers congregating at a library is not a bad thing, said Hillsborough library services director Joe Stines.

Check out Money Smart Week at the Chicago PL.

You can borrow books that tell you how to play the stock market.

Some libraries would rather pay to have their collections digitized than let Google or Microsoft do it for free.

Britain’s new Living Library lets patrons borrow a person.

The public library is the place where children’s vocabulary blossoms and verbal interaction between children and their parents grows strong.

Ed Gray is the son of L. Patrick Gray, who ran the FBI at the time of the Watergate break-in. The younger Gray said he never visited the old Watergate exhibit, but “I know the people who used to run this place had an agenda, and that agenda was, ‘Watergate never happened.’ “

As a student at Duke, Styron regarded “the books in the Duke library as ‘the rocks and boulders’ he could cling to against his ‘onrushing sense of doom and mortality.’”

Sure, you can find anything online … but how do you think much of it gets there? From libraries that have been so carefully keeping it all.

Association head urges recent granduates to upgrade their skills and seek work in the private sector.