posted March 20, 2012 at metaLAB (at) Harvard

haaretz 19 December 2011; see also
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/19/cairo-institute-burned-during-clashes
and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/world/middleeast/as-violence-continues-egypt-news-media-clash-over-its-cause.html

November 12, 2011 – January 28, 2012
Erica Baum, David Bunn, Chris Coffin, Blane De St. Croix, Madeline Djerejian, Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson, Philippe Gronon, José Hernández , Candida Höfer, Nina Katchadourian, Reynard Loki, Loren Madsen, Jorge Méndez Blake, Allen Ruppersberg, Mickey Smith, Xiaoze Xie

"strengths include : The North American landscape; material about people and place, cultural geography, rural and urban geography, travel and tourism, highways and car culture, parks and recreation…" ¶ judging from the photo in the Kevin Kelly Technium essay, it looks more like a great bookstore (or that bookstore's warehouse), than a library; I like that about it.

"users urged to take out full allowance of library books in campaign to keep Stony Stratford branch [on the outskirs of Milton Keynes] open" (in face of threats to close it). 16,000 volumes were borrowed, the shelves are empty. ¶ Maev Kennedy, Guardian, 14 January 2011

a bookstore, too.

"Michael Tuttle… has carved a niche as a personal-library preservationist—an archiver/cataloger/appraiser, if you will…" ¶ Lora Zarubin, LA Times Magazine, August 2010 ¶ seems to focus on traditional collecting criteria (associations, dj condition, etc). matuttle.com

"A charming hideaway for rare-book lovers" by Sam Allen, LA Times, July 15, 2010. ¶ at Jefferson Park, near USC. on my list. via britta, and my brother Tom!

New Notes of California Libraries 17:4 (October 1922)

The Arbutus Library began in 1948 when local residents such as George Klein, Beatrice Williams and Elsie Ijams, discussed starting a local library with members of the Kiwanis Club and local business people. A library was created in the basement of the Arbutus Hardware store at 5417 East Drive. The Kiwanis gave $300; and a new floor was donated. A large table and 10 chairs were also acquired. Alberta Klein, George's wife, obtained more than 400 books from friends and local residents. ¶ ex A Brief History of the Arbutus Area and Nearby Communities | Baltimore County Public Library

“At a hardware store, you don’t want to find a predominance of washers that fit faucets from 10 years ago,” said Clark. “That’s my theory with books.” ¶ Hartland library extends reach worldwide (Bangor Daily News, October 27, 2009) ¶ dubious theory, but he is finding success; uses various book swap sites, trading dupes and low-demand items for others; ILL statistics have gone way up as well. ¶ N.B., the librarian blogs, at http://sennebec.livejournal.com/

Bright Idea : Store tools in a library card catalog case, posted to DIY Life by Jen Jafarzadeh L'Italien, 27 May 2010 ¶ compare to http://www.jmcvey.net/catatan/index.htm#hardware_literature

Sara and John had met in 1876 at a lecture he gave in Santa Barbara, California, where she owned a lending library and stationery store. ¶ Marion [Vermazen]'s Blog: Mountain View Cemetery, April 17, 2008

In 1908 the City of Forest Grove established a tax to support a public library, the first in Washington County. Initially housed in a stationery store at 21st Avenue and College Way, the library became a city department in 1974. ¶ Forest Grove City Library, Forest Grove, Oregon

Women Telegraph Operators : Emma Hunter

The Gustine Branch of the Merced County Free Library was opened on Nov. 22, 1910. It was located in the back of the Gustine Stationery Store next to the Park Restaurant…

also, "itinerating libraries," "book club," &c. ¶ Chambers's Encyclopaedia vol 3 (1883)