Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...building, but he could not hear their voices well enough to know whether they were the four Americans: William Buckley, 56, a U.S. diplomat who has been missing since March 16; the Rev. Benjamin Weir, 60, a Presbyterian minister who disappeared May 8; Peter Kilburn, 60, a librarian at the American University of Beirut who was last seen Dec. 3; and Father Lawrence Jenco, 51, head of the Catholic Relief Service office in Beirut, who was abducted Jan. 8. A caller to a Beirut news agency, claiming to represent Islamic Jihad, said one of the four "has been sentenced...
...tracking inventories and sending out overdue slips. Others are purchasing microcomputers as a way of attracting new patrons. The most forward-looking are plugging their new terminals into computer networks and giving cardholders access to remote electronic data banks. "Libraries have to act fast," says David Nashelsky, senior librarian at the San Jose, Calif., public library. "In the future, a lot of information is going to be available only via computers...
...from a busy West Beirut street about a week earlier. The kidnapers struck again last May 8, seizing Weir, 60, a Presbyterian minister, as he walked with his wife in the Muslim section. His wife was left behind unharmed. The two other missing Americans are Peter Kilburn, 60, a librarian at the American University of Beirut who vanished on Dec. 3, and Lawrence Jenco, 51, a Roman Catholic priest and head of the Catholic Relief Services in the Lebanese capital, who was captured at gunpoint about four weeks...
Cambridge librarian Kevin J. Donnelly said that the library's new collection of books about peace is "geared not just toward students and children, but toward the general reader who wants to be an informed citizen." The collection is funded by the Cambridge Commission on Nuclear Issues and Peace Education and by donations from bookstores...
...asked them for help," said Cabot Librarian Alan F. Erickson, who added that "it's a little bit easier to follow the copyright procedures now" than when the laws first appeared...