It’s National Library Week and the Birmingham Public Library is celebrating by printing up coupons for $5 off of your overdue fines. They can be found online and in the most recent The Reader. Offer expires when Library Week does, on April 18th.
Category Archives: Birmingham
Jonathan Benton Going Out of Business
I just read over on Gasp! that Mountain Brook bookseller Jonathan Benton’s is going out of business. March 31st will be the last day the doors are open. The owners and operators blamed all the online book sites and such. The Jonathan Benton site has been down for months, but this is such a shame. It’ll be sad to see that empty space in the Mountain Brook Village shopping Center.
The number of non-mega-chain stores is dwindling here in Birmingham…
Virtual Tours of Birmingham Libraries
I just noticed this button at the bottom of the Birmingham Public Library site, which links to a webpage full of mini-video tours of the central downtown branch and five of the Birmingham branches.It’s powered by Alabama360.com, so you have the ability to zoom, pause, pan and tilt.
Some of the older tours are powered by MapWing which pinpoints still images rather than allowing you to pan through a panoramic shot.
The Linn Henley Research Library tours don’t do the murals justice. It’s just one of those things best seen in person.
Thanks Birmingham Terminal!
I wasn’t able to make it to the TechMixer Expo tonight, but thanks to the crew at the Terminal I was there lurking high in a corner. Thanks, Andre, for streaming the event. Very cool! Looked like tons of folks running around.