From Beth at westbanklibrary.com Thu May 5 14:54:58 2011 From: Beth at westbanklibrary.com (Beth Fox) Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 14:54:58 -0500 Subject: [Txlibdistricts] Petition Message-ID: <1BF14CC98AA873488E505F70BE38B03D38DF386FC2@wb2007ex.WCLD.LIB> Donita sent me this petition that as of today has been signed by 59,000 people. I think that we need to send this along to as many people as possible. Beth Wheeler Fox, Library Director Westbank Community Library District 1309 Westbank Dr., Austin, TX 78746 512-314-3580 Fax 512-327-3074 Dear Everyone Who Cares About Libraries, By day, Andy Woodworth is a mild-mannered librarian. By night, he's still a librarian, just less mild-mannered. Andy is kind of famous in the librarian community, mostly for getting the Old Spice guy to do a video about how great libraries are, and unsuccessfully campaigning to get Ben & Jerry's to create a flavor called the "Gooey Decimal System." (If you don't get the pun, just ask someone ten years older.) Oh, and now he's using Change.org to help lead the charge in a fight against NewsCorp, one of the world's most powerful companies. See, more and more libraries are beginning to buy e-books, like those read on a Kindle or similar device. They're programmed to be like normal books -- lent out to one reader at a time, returned, and downloaded by another reader. It's simple, and especially great for working parents or the disabled who have a hard time making it to a library. But publishing giant HarperCollins (owned by NewsCorp) is trying to force libraries to only buy e-books that literally self-destruct after the 26th reader in an attempt to maximize profits. Having to repeatedly buy the same book will be a financial and logistical disaster for libraries, one that could force a few to close their doors. Even worse, there are signs that other publishing companies may soon follow the lead of HarperCollins, which could devastate libraries all around the world. Some amazing librarians have launched a full boycott of HarperCollins until the decision is reversed, but they urgently need widespread support to force NewsCorp to back down. Andy's petition demanding an end to self-destructing e-books has a goal of 100,000 signatures -- click here to add your name now: http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-harpercollins-limited-checkouts-on-ebooks-is-wrong-for-libraries Andy declares on his blog that "The world needs more badass librarians." It's true, though right now the world also needs more readers who will stand alongside them. Thanks for doing your part, Patrick and the Change.org team -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.tsl.state.tx.us/pipermail/txlibdistricts/attachments/20110505/510b8724/attachment-0001.html From roxanna at tpml.org Thu May 5 17:53:11 2011 From: roxanna at tpml.org (Roxanna Deane) Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 17:53:11 -0500 Subject: [Txlibdistricts] Wages Message-ID: <00c401cc0b77$35c86100$a1592300$@tpml.org> Like all of you we are working on our budget. It would be a big help if you could share information about staff salaries - a range is all I need. I am interested in determining fair pay for staff that are responsible for all sorts of library work such as collection development but who do not have degrees. Thanks for your help. Roxanna Deane, Director Tye Preston Memorial Library 16311 South Access Road Canyon Lake, TX 78133 830 964-3744 www.tpml.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.tsl.state.tx.us/pipermail/txlibdistricts/attachments/20110505/57ad5d4f/attachment.html From npencsak at aol.com Fri May 13 23:30:06 2011 From: npencsak at aol.com (Npencsak) Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 00:30:06 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Txlibdistricts] LIBRARY FRIENDS BOOK SALE AT JACK BROWN CLEANERS Message-ID: <8CDE006BC6E241E-1040-38A15@webmail-m098.sysops.aol.com> The Friends of the Lake Travis Community Library are having an indoor $10.00 a bag book sale, Saturday, June 04 AND Saturday, June 11, from 8 A.M. to 1 P.M in donated space, at the Jack Brown Cleaners, 1508 R.R.620 South, Lakeway, Texas. Bags are provided. There are new and used books, videos, DVDs, books on tape, children?s books, antique and collectible books that have been donated to the library. For details, call the library at 512-263-2885. Please post and share the info. Hope to see you at the sale. THANKS, Nancy Pencsak Be kinder than necessary. 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