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Topic: Libraries and librarians

Americans hate book banning

The opera singer vanishes

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Bring back shushing librarians

Tyranny of the happy ending

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Click or we'll burn this

Mari Morneau, of Gilbert, shoots at Caswells Shooting Range Tuesday, April 6, 2010 in Mesa, Ariz. On Monday, April 5, 2010, Gov. Jan Brewer has signed into law two bills supported by gun-rights activists. One of the bills signed Monday would broaden the state's current restrictions on local governments' ability to regulate or tax guns and ammunition. The other bill declares that guns manufactured entirely in Arizona are exempt from federal oversight and are not subject to federal laws restricting the sale of firearms or requiring them to be registered. (AP Photo/Matt York) (Matt York)

Arizona's armed library guard debate

The library of St. Florian in Austria

Thousands of digital books to be added to Google

Associated Press

The main branch of the New York Public Library

Tracy Clark-Flory

Geoff Mulvihill

In this photo made Friday, June 25, 2010, Prisilla Gluckman reads to her four-year-old son Oscar Gluckman at Bookmarks, a Dallas Public Library Branch at NorthPark Center mall in Dallas. In the first two months after it opened in NorthPark Center, Bookmarks issued more than 700 library cards. Two years after it opened at the mall, the library for kids 12 and under has an inventory of about 5,000 and circulates as much as branches eight times that size with both adult and children's books. (AP Photo/LM Otero) (AP)

Mary Elizabeth Williams

The new addition to the Cambridge Public Library

Hot for librarian

Married, with books: Could their love survive merging their collections?

Dr. Laura's Internet war! Radio bigmouth/former nude model attacks libraries for purveying porn!

Patrizia DiLucchio

Cate T. Corcoran

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