- Baghdad’s Brave Librarian
A intriguing interview with Dr. Saad Eskander, director of the Iraq National Library and Archive in Baghdad. Surprisingly, he also faces the same problems as other librarians around the world of people talking loudly in the library and lost books. The additional problems he face quite regularly are sniper fire and Kotyusha rocket attack or a car bomb attack on his library’s front door.
(via Library Stuff)
- More on the Brave Librarian in Baghdad
A bit more on Dr. Saad Eskander as well as an interview with him on BBC Radio 4 FM, which you can listen online.
(via LISNews)
- Drive-through window at Decatur Library?
I guess you would have already envision how a drive-through window at a library. Well, in this case, it was a car that drove through the window of the library. Thankfully, no one was hurt in this accident.
(via Library Stuff)
- The Apple Store - amazing customer service story
The librarian experienced a tremendous experience in terms of customer service at an Apple Store in the States when he went to buy a MacBook for Christmas. He was wondering if libraries can offer such a service. (Sidenote: Such experiences don’t happen in the Apple retailers in Singapore.)
(via Tame The Web)