WWU Librarian Turns Investigator
An article in the April 2008, Smithsonian, highlights the saga of Western Washington University (WWU) librarian, Rob Lopresti, to find the thief or thieves who ripped 648 pages of historic maps, lithographs and other items from more than 102 vintage volumes in the library's government documents collection. Lopresti tracked historical document sales through eBay and, with the help of two friends on the East Coast, successfully bid on two of the possibly stolen items. The state crime lab eventually matched the paper and tear marks with two of the pages torn from the WWU books.

Librarian Contributes Denver Post Colorado Voices Column
Ellen Mackey, a librarian at the Highlands Ranch Library in Douglas County, Colorado, wrote "Libraries far from dead," which was published in the April 16, Denver Post Colorado Voices opinion column. Celebrating National Library Week (April 13-19), she examined the notion that the public library, once thought to be on the verge of extinction in the era of the Internet, is neither dead nor dying and is, in fact, thriving. See the Denver Post website for the full article.