God, I am lucky to be from such a corrupt state! I just had too much fun looking for stories on Missouri libraries and I found a few that I cannot use for our State of the Libraries project.
Missouri Governer's wife forces the library to open on Mother's Day so that her pre-teen son can study so the head librarian has to come into work to accomodate.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=m3k0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=6pYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4093,47339&dq=state+library+missouri&hl=en
I hope this link works, I have had so much trouble accessing the Kansas City Star for free, even through our UW Library system.
The Missouri State library is full of politics; but not how you might expect.
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=KC&p_theme=kc&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAF40A5E929A3D7&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
...and I will end with a lovely and strange story about how the public library, which was denied funding for a new library, decided to spend a few dollars on a book locker and book drop to be placed outside of a popular (I am guessing) gas station in a small town in Missouri. Enjoy.
Library to go
The Columbia Tribune announces the opening of a strange new sight in the gas stations of Hallsville, MO; a set of library lockers, where patrons can pick up their holds. http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2010/aug/28/library-to-go-arrives-in-hallsville/ Because of financial problems, a library could not be built in this location and so the library just payed a one time fee to install these lockers to keep the books coming to the local patrons.
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