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The Pacific Northwest Sheet Music Collection is part of the Ashford Sheet Music Collection at the University of Washington Music Library. The Ashford Collection was built from a core collection donated by Paul Ashford to the University of Washington in 1959. The collection has been augmented considerably since 1959 and now contains over a thousand titles.  

Here's how it works: call the Saugus Public Library at 781-231-4168 x 50. We will take down your information- name, address, and library card number (if you have it), the authors and types of books you enjoy, whether you prefer large print or regular print. If you don't have a library card, we can set you up with one on our first meeting with you.  

The Internet giant has been copying and storing millions of the world's out-of-print and out-of-copyright books in a vast online archive. It could all be just a mouse click away from your computer screen if the effort, known as the Google Books Library Project, survives a legal challenge. At stake is access to millions of texts, billions of pages, trillions of words that constitute nothing less than human memory and identity.

another click might obliterate these same contents and bring civilization to an end.   -Jacob Epstein

 

Among the archival material from Salman Rushdie currently on display at Emory University in Atlanta are inked book covers, handwritten journals and four Apple computers (one ruined by a spilled Coke). The 18 gigabytes of data they contain seemed to promise future biographers and literary scholars a digital wonderland: comprehensive, organized and searchable files, quickly accessible with a few clicks. But like most Rushdian paradises, this digital idyll has its own set of problems.  

Russia plans to create the largest archive dedicated to the Second World War. This may be timed for the 70 th anniversary of the Great Victory, in five years. Incomplete archives, possessed by Russia, include thousands of documents containing information about the war.  

Sandwich town records from as far back as the 1650s will be restored if Sandwich Town Meeting approves a $93,000 appropriation in May. Last week the Community Preservation Committee gave its approval to the expenditure to cover the cost of restoring 13 deteriorating books and construct new shelving in the vault of the Town Hall Annex where they are stored. The majority of the books contain vital records, including births, deaths, and marriages from the 1600s and 1700s.

I got my hands on those records and decided to go further with [the assessment]   -Taylor White

 

March madness, and there's too much happening at the library to list it all here. If you've never visited our website at www.thayerpubliclibrary.net, now's the time. Click on Upcoming Events and see just how many programs and services your local library offers you.