Wednesday, July 19, 2006
SERLS Ohio Library News Digest
Nearly 1,400 libraries "Step Up to the Plate @ your library"; incentives available for participating libraries
Libraries across the country are celebrating an all-American summer pastime and the role libraries play in building 21st century literacy skills by participating in the Step Up to the Plate @ your library® program, developed by ALA and the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
American Library Association. 7/18/06. http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=news&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=132649
Safe and bound
Bubble wrap made it possible. Without thousands of sheets of the plastic protection, history might have been tarnished.
Columbus Dispatch. 7/17/06. http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/07/17/20060717-A1-00.html
Mickey Spillane, creator of Detective Mike Hammer, dies
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Mickey Spillane, the macho mystery writer who wowed millions of readers with the shoot-’em-up sex and violence of gumshoe Mike Hammer, died today. He was 88.
Toledo Blade. 7/17/06. http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060717/ART18/60717018&SearchID=73251039258798
Columbus Metropolitan Library Selects LiveTime Help Desk Software
Newport Beach, CA (PRWEB) -- LiveTime Software, a leading provider of Java-based Customer Service and Support software, today announced that its web-based help desk management tool, LiveTime Help Desk, has been selected by Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) to manage and deliver a complete IT Help Desk Service to its customers.
Yahoo! News. 7/19/06. http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20060719/bs_prweb/prweb413421_4
Libraries across the country are celebrating an all-American summer pastime and the role libraries play in building 21st century literacy skills by participating in the Step Up to the Plate @ your library® program, developed by ALA and the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
American Library Association. 7/18/06. http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=news&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=132649
Safe and bound
Bubble wrap made it possible. Without thousands of sheets of the plastic protection, history might have been tarnished.
Columbus Dispatch. 7/17/06. http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/07/17/20060717-A1-00.html
Mickey Spillane, creator of Detective Mike Hammer, dies
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Mickey Spillane, the macho mystery writer who wowed millions of readers with the shoot-’em-up sex and violence of gumshoe Mike Hammer, died today. He was 88.
Toledo Blade. 7/17/06. http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060717/ART18/60717018&SearchID=73251039258798
Columbus Metropolitan Library Selects LiveTime Help Desk Software
Newport Beach, CA (PRWEB) -- LiveTime Software, a leading provider of Java-based Customer Service and Support software, today announced that its web-based help desk management tool, LiveTime Help Desk, has been selected by Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) to manage and deliver a complete IT Help Desk Service to its customers.
Yahoo! News. 7/19/06. http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20060719/bs_prweb/prweb413421_4
