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The law allows libraries to turn over video surveillance tapes to police if a crime has occurred in the library. It stems from separate incidents in Neenah and Sun Prairie libraries where crimes were committed, but librarians had to wait until they were served with a subpeona. Under this new law, Northern Waters Library Service Director Jim Trojanowski in Ashland says they can move faster against lawbreakers. "So if we caught a patron defacing library materials for example, tearing up books or creating a problem like that or engaged in more serious conduct, sexual misbehavior, things like that." Trojanowski says this is a narrow exception to the court order requirement, so the privacy of patrons isn't compromised. "Law enforcement can't come in and ask to view the surveillance tapes to try to find out who may be using certain sections of the libary or who may have borrowed particular material without a court order."
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[I]n the Early Middle Ages, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and before the rise of the large Western Christian monastery libraries beginning at Montecassino, libraries were found in scattered places in the Christian Middle East. Upon the rise of Islam, libraries in newly Islamic lands knew a brief period of expansion in the Middle East, North Africa, Sicily and Spain. Like the Christian libraries, they mostly contained books which were made of paper, and took a codex or modern form instead of scrolls; they could be found in mosques, private homes, and universities. In Aleppo, for example the largest and probably the oldest mosque library, the Sufiya, located at the city's Grand Umayyad Mosque, contained a large book collection of which 10 000 volumes were reportedly bequeathed by the city's most famous ruler, Prince Sayf al-Dawla. [6] Some mosques sponsored public libraries. Ibn al-Nadim's bibliography Fihrist demonstrates the devotion of medieval Muslim scholars to books and reliable sources; it contains a description of thousands of books circulating in the Islamic world circa 1000, including an entire section for books about the doctrines of other religions.
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NLS libraries offer something for every bookworm, from kids to seniors. Summer reading programs and book clubs nationwide are designed to engage and reward readers. "Superheroes-Powered by Books," a program hosted by one network library, rewards blind and physically handicapped children who use their reading powers to fight summer boredom. Kids can report on the audio or braille books they have read in return for a range of superhero-themed prizes -- from masks to action figures. Additional reader appreciation programs include the 102 Talking Book Club, which honors centenarians for their lifelong devotion to reading.
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Private or personal libraries made up of non-fiction and fiction books (as opposed to the state or institutional records kept in archives) first appeared in classical Greece. The first ones appeared some time near the 5th century BC. The celebrated book collectors of Hellenistic Antiquity were listed in the late second century in Deipnosophistae:[1]
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The BCTLA supports many of the initiatives outlined in Libraries Without Walls—the virtual reference books, for example. They agree with increased cooperation between community and school libraries. However, they disagree with one major omission: any mention whatsoever in the document of teacher-librarians or school libraries.
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