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Dear ,
The news is filled with stories of libraries this past week.
The TU's Paul Grondahl kicked off 2009 with this article about the Albany Public Library's efforts at helping customers to locate jobs and jobless benefits.
And, we're mourning the news from the Troy Public Library that two of their libraries are closing because of budget cuts from the city. And this is after they succeeded in getting the voters to approve their move from the city budget to a separate taxing entity. Unfortunately, voters did not also approve the budget - so they're back to the drawing board but with a big cut from the Troy City government.
And the word in the library world is that President Elect Barack Obama has indicated his understanding of the important role libraries play in times of economic depression to assist people with job searches, job training and jobless benefits by including support to public libraries in his proposed massive economic stimulus package. We await more news.
Here's the speech he made in 2005 to the annual national conference of the American Library Association.
In a time of such uncertainty, it's certainly helpful to learn of the next President's commitment to libraries.
Guardians of truth and knowledge, librarians must be thanked
for their role as champions of privacy, literacy,
independent thinking, and most of all reading.
by Barack Obama
"If you open up Scripture, the Gospel according to John, it starts: "In the beginning was the Word." Although this has a very particular meaning in Scripture, more broadly what it speaks to is the critical importance of language, of writing, of reading, of communication, of books as a means of transmitting culture and binding us together as a people.
More than a building that houses books and data, the library represents a window to a larger world, the place where we've always come to discover big ideas and profound concepts that help move the American story forward and the human story forward. Click here for more
Cordially,
Elissa Kane
on behalf of the Albany Public Library
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Drop by the Main Library at 2PM on January 11th for a FREE movie.
North by Northwest, rated 8.6 on the IMDB scale!
A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.
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The Friends welcome
Tom Ellis
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Local activist, Tom Ellis reviews the autobiographical book Son of Mountains: My Life as a Kurd and a Terror Suspect by Yassin Aref.
In 2004, Mr. Aref, was arrested in Albany for allegedly being part of a terrorist ring, he was convicted in 2006 and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
While the FBI stands by its investigation, many people still believe that this was a wrongful conviction.
Come join the Friends at 12PM on
January 13
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Visit the Library for The Visitors |
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Thursday, January 15
6PM
The Visitors is a mini documentary following passengers of a charter bus that leaves New York City every weekend to visit prisoners in various prisons in Upstate New York.
The film reflects on the struggles of a unique group of people, mostly women who live at the intersection of confinement and the free world. The director, a former prison visitor herself, - follows the coordinator of the bus, Denise Robinson, whose husband is coming home soon after 17 years of imprisonment.
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Volunteer Picks -
Great things to do in Albany for Free (or almost free), edited by Theresa |
In the January BiblioTech, we gave you some helpful information on the February 17th switchover to Digital Television but you can never have enough info when it comes to your television viewing. Senator Clinton has announced that her office will hold an informational briefing with Albany agencies to better prepare our community for the switch. The event is on Friday, January 9th at 1PM.
Happy Anniversary, Metroland!! Now we have to change the old saying "Don't trust anyone over 30." I look forward to reading the special edition of the February 5th Metroland in which they will look back at three decades of news, events, public figures, restaurants, artists, and musicians....only the best!
I love silly analysis...so, obviously, I loved this wordle chart that our friends over at the Syracuse Post Standard did. Check it out!
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