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This article is about a man who is being accused of solicitation. Solicitation is to ask, command, urge or advise another person to commit a crime. The suspect is already in jail on a criminal sexual abuse case. Ivan Flores is being charged for solicitation of murder and solicitation of murder for hire according to prosecutors. A $500,000 bail was set on his new charges. Prosecutors say that the suspect Ivan Flores was talking to two confidential sources at the Cook County Corrections department…

public libraries are home for the building of communities and deepening of personal relationships. Citizens go to public libraries for varying reasons. For example, some citizens borrow books, others find a place to study, and some attend meetings and other events that are available. According to Orland Park Public Library’s Calendar of Events, public events such as pilates classes, along with craft nights, take place in the library. On other nights, board meetings will occupy the library floor…

wanted to see what the library had to offer as a patron, not a researcher. This could be considered a social anthropological approach by first getting a library card and checking a book out as a customer of the library during a field visit. I got a feel for the process and what the library had to offer the public. Similar to what Stoddart (as cited in Berg and Lune, 2012) described as covert ethnography. No one at the time knew what I was there for, so I could observe the library…

Binghamton’s Carnegie Library nestles snugly in the shadows of city hall and the Security Mutual building on Exchange Street. Although no longer in use, the ‘old library’ (as the residents refer to it) stands as a reminder of Andrew Carnegie’s philanthropy, as well as the city’s former glory. The building’s architecture is entirely Classical, utilising Greek and Roman traditions to create an inviting exterior for the city’s library. The library’s Grecian influence is obvious at first glance, as…

Purpose In accordance with the mission of the Hackley Public Library, the Library provides users with access to information and communication over the Internet, a diverse and dynamic global network of computer networks rich in informational, educational, cultural, and recreational resources. Information The Hackley Public Library does not control the availability of Internet information links, which often change rapidly and unpredictably. Not all sources on the Internet provide accurate,…

Purpose and Background The Collection Development Policy upholds the mission of the Turner Free Library* which is to serve the cultural, educational, and informational needs of the Town of Randolph. The Collection Development Policy directs Library staff in the maintenance and development of the Turner Free Library collections. The policy also defines collection development practices, and provides continuity to selection, purchasing and retention decisions. As part of strategic planning, the…

Today’s school libraries are seeing a drastic cut in their library budget every year, leaving less money to purchase quality books for their collection. Therefore, it is essential for school libraries to host a book fair at least once a year rather through Barnes and Nobel, Scholastic, and Reading Warehouse. “The book fair is a common staple for many school libraries to earn free books” (Pentland, pg.112). My school recently finished hosting our Fall Scholastic book fair and it could not of…

misery from the eyes of a child. Due to many children demonstrating how easily they can be persuaded, as shown in the novels 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, both parental figures and public school systems fought for certaining books to be banned from their libraries. Within 1984, the reader gains the understanding that children are able to follow the laws of the government, all thinking and acting the same way as if they were robots under control of the higher power. Not one can live free-spiritedly,…

Jaeger (2015) states that the choice to opt in is what really matters (p. 14). This will mean that funding will still be required for public libraries so that the entire population has a means to gain training and instruction regarding the usage of the internet and the hardware required to access the internet in an affordable manner. It is certainly not ideal, but the initiative in providing everyone…

The Library of Congress Cataloging System (LCCS) has long reflected the importance of author’s voice in works of literature by including subheadings such as: Hispanic Americans—fiction; American poetry--Jewish authors; American lesbians--literary collections, etc., while scholarly works of nonfiction, assumed to be impartial, have not been classified in this manner. Therefore, it is not possible to measure who the authors of those works are, and whether, for instance, any of the works located…