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These changes, which balance text and digital resources, hope to improve the patron??s library experience...

Author: By Rachel A. Stark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Widener to the Web | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...Contrary to what many may believe, “Journey to Mecca” is not a documentary. Despite the note that much of its publicity has taken—emphasizing the inclusion of unprecedented footage of the modern Hajj, and invoking National Geographic as its chief patron??there is little about the film that aspires to an insightful portrayal of actual events. Instead, viewers are subjected to skeletal dramatic summary of the first voyage of Ibn Battuta, a Berber from 12th-century Tangiers, whose journal chronicles a lifetime of travel the scale of which outstrips the expeditions...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Journey To Mecca | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...book (many of whom are making that decision under strong pressure from their communities) are very decidedly in the minority. Far more significant is the fact that the book did, as Kamdem notes, win the Newbery Medal. That honor will guarantee strong sales and wide attention for author Susan Patron??s novel...

Author: By Jay Gabler | Title: Kamdem’s Book Comment Was Misleading | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...FBI’s ability to demand a patron??s borrowing record was not changed by the compromises. But, under current law, libraries who receive this kind of request are prohibited from ever discussing it. The compromise would set a time limit on this controversial ban by specifying that libraries can challenge this “gag rule” in court after a year has passed, according to a statement released by the Republican senators who voted against long-term Patriot Act renewal in December...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Act Could Up FBI Power | 2/13/2006 | See Source »

...crashed into the Kirkland House library—said to be the oldest building in Cambridge—when a valet lost control of a patron??s car while making a left turn onto JFK Street around 8:30 p.m. last night. Five fire engines, an ambulance, a tow truck and a handful of police cars—all with lights flashing—cordoned off two blocks of JFK Street, as about 50 students and passersby looked on and a local news crew darted about the scene. The driver, whom police would not identify by name...

Author: By Sam Teller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Car Plows Into Kirkland House Library; No One Injured | 2/9/2006 | See Source »

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