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The Seattle Public Library is close to choosing it's new CEO/ city librarian to replace Deborah L. Jacobs who left to work for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation last April. The search committee annouced the three finalists earlier this week: Rivkah K. Sass, the executive director of the Omah Publis Library in Nebraska, Susan Hildreth, the state librarian of California, and Jane E. Light, the library director of the San Jose Public Library in California. Each finalist met with library staff as well as the boards of the Friends of the Seattle Public Library and the Seattle Public Library foundation. Sass met with them on Wednesday, Hildreth met with them on Thursday, and Light met with everyone today. No word on when a decision is expected.
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I might be anti-digital, but romance novel and iphone users have something to celebrate. BooksonBoard, an ebook company, announced that they will bring an entire catalog of romance novels from Sanhain Publishing to the iphone and ipod. Users must have the Stanza reading platform in order to view the books. BooksonBoard has over 270,000 titles. The only drawback is that your fellow commuters will miss out on a book cover with a half-naked Fabio embracing a scantily-clad woman.
Lastly, Esquire Magazine totally endorses the public library. In the November 2008 issue, author Meryl Rothstein writes, "Every book, every movie, every album. It's like Borders, Netflix, and itunes combined-for free. And it's so easy: you can go online and have the newest stuff sent to your local branch. Why would you leave this complimentary emporium to students and grandmothers is beyond me. Plus, a librarian is like Google that actually finds what you're looking for and never clutters your screen with porn" (page 32). Now that's what I've been saying all week. The library is a (not so) hidden gem.
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