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twitter at your library - what should or could it do?

Ryan Eby just invited me to join the Ann Arbor District Library twitter feed:

http://twitter.com/aadl

He promises event notifications and other newsworthy stuff.

Once upon a time I built a "superpatronbot" that searched the AADL catalog via a Jabber bot - quite reasonably you could build one of these upon Twitter's direct message listings. Useful? Perhaps, especially if I could link a Twitter account to my library card and then be able to twitter

d aadl reserve anatomy of a murder dvd

and have it do a hold on it for me (or return some disambiguator if there were multiple choices).

(Reminder - Library Camp 2008 at the AADL, March 20 2008.)

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Ann Arbor District Library elections, May 6, 2008

The election for the upcoming Ann Arbor District Library board has the following candidates. Note that there is one candidate for one two-year position, and four candidates for four four-year positions; that is, these positions are uncontested.

Original from the site of the Washtenaw County Clerk and Register of Deeds - that page has email addresses and phone numbers listed, and I'm copying them in here too. The candidate links are all to Arborwiki, which will in the due course of time fill in details.

Ann Arbor District Library - Trustee

One 2-Year Term
Name Address Phone E-mail
Edward Surovell 1000 Forest Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48105 734-761-6330 [email protected]

Four 4-Year Terms
Name Address Phone E-mail
Rebecca Head 910 Edgewood Place
Ann Arbor, MI 48103 734-668-9638 [email protected]
Jean Ledwith King 424 Little Lake Dr., #38
Ann Arbor, MI 48103 734-662-4819 [email protected]
Margaret A. Leary 1056 Newport Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48103 734-663-7324 [email protected]
Prue Rosenthal 2105 Devonshire Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104 734-665-0941 [email protected]

Vote early, vote often.

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The Undigested History of the Nantucket Atheneum

from Common-Place v2 n1 Oct 2001

The Undigested History of the Nantucket Atheneum
Lloyd Presley Pratt

Tearing up floorboards in search of hidden treasure is a bad idea. A messy process, it seldom yields anything of value. As a rule, attics are a better bet. [...]

As construction began, floorboards came up, walls and doors came down. Eventually the building itself was lifted off its foundation as the crawl space was turned into a ground floor. But to my mind, the removal of the floorboards marked the turning point of the renovation. For as it happens, the space beneath them sheltered a collection of over five hundred nineteenth-century pamphlets.

It continues with a wonderful story of the destruction of the original Atheneum in the Great Fire, a call to citizens up and down the East coast to restore the library, and the presumed use of less valuable materials (today's equivalent would be the leftover magazines at the public magazine rack) to block out the drafts from the winter chill.

Thanks to Dan Drake for identifying the bit of Ann Arbor to Nantucket serendipity that led me to this.

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