Cafes & Libraries

      Visit this website:
      LibraryCoffee.com
      Excerpt quoted from website:
      Many things are happening in both libraries and coffee houses.
      Both are changing and adapting to new environments and new consumers and users.
      Change is necessary for survival and relevance to society.


      Food for thought
      Campus libraries add cafes and meeting spaces to lure 
      students away from their computer screens
      http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0122/p12s01-lehl.html

      Should college libraries try to attract more students
      by opening coffee bars and cafes?
      http://chronicle.com/colloquy/2001/coffee/re.htm

      THE DESERTED LIBRARY
      As Students Work Online, Reading Rooms Empty Out -- 
      Leading Some Campuses to Add Starbucks
      November 16, 2001
      http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i12/12a03501.htm

      Commenting on above article:
      Library Issues - January 2002
      The Library as a Place: Tradition and Evolution
      by William Miller
      http://www.libraryissues.com/pub/LI220003.asp

      Deserted No More  
      By Andrew Richard Albanese -- 4/15/2003
      Library Journal - Online article


      A Cafe or Coffee Bar in the Public Libraries. Realistic or Not?
      http://members.tripod.com/~robyn64/Page3.htm

      NSLS Fast Facts #222 - Coffee Shops/Stores in Libraries (November 18, 1999)
      http://fastfacts.nsls.info/surveys/pff222sum_1.asp

      BUBL News: Surveys
      Coffee/Refreshment in Libraries
      Jean Yeoh, King's College London (Source: lis-link)
      22 Jun 2001
      http://bubl.ac.uk/news/surveys/su062201.htm

      Libraries stack up Web-world changes
      Washington Times  *Note this is a Google "cached page view"*
      February 10, 2003

      LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research
      Electronic Journal                
      1997 Volume 7 Issue 1; March 31. 
      Library Cafes:  Next Logical Step      

      Laurabelle's Blog
      Excerpt quoted from website:
      Pinch that penny!  
      Mon, 10 Feb 2003
      Kevin doesn't understand why libraries are installing coffee bars instead of more books. He argues that the reason he doesn't use the library much is that it has very few books that he's interested in. I see his point, but I also see the reasoning behind coffee bars and other weird installations.  
      Read complete entry
      http://www.niceperson.org/archive/2003/02/10/pinch_that_penny.php      

      Libraries versus Bookstores
      Reflections on the 'new' book stores
      http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/whatsnu_4.html

      Bookstores vs. Libraries?
      Author: Mindy Grundmeier
      Published on: December 22, 2000
      http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/8871/55676
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      Eating and Drinking in the Library
      http://www.calvin.edu/library/tutohelp/azindex/food.stm

      Food and Drinks in Library stacks
      http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/padg/2001/03/msg00007.html

      Tuesday, December 3, 2002
      New library will include coffee shop among books / Florida
      By JOHN DAVIS JR.
      http://www.newschief.com/stories/120302/loc_coffeeshop.shtml

      View Examples of Current Working: Library Coffee Cafe's Online 
      - see how they are setup:

      See the Books n' Bytes Cafe
      of the Copiague Memorial Public Library / New York
      http://copiaguelibrary.org/book_n_bytes_cafe.htm

      Another Public Librarys' - Library Cafe
      Ridgewood Public Library - New Jersey
      http://www.bccls.org/ridgewood/librarycafe.htm

      Also the CUNY Brooklyn Library Cafe
      Brooklyn College Library Cafe Open 24 Hours A Day 
      http://ait.brooklyn.cuny.edu/librarycafe/about.htm

      Cornell's Libe Café and Tower Café
      http://housing.cornell.edu/dining/libe_cafe.asp

      University of Iowa - Food for Thought Library Cafe
      http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/vtour/cafe.html

      Look at this Library Cafe' outlet
      www.jen-gil.com/new_page_2.htm

      And The Open Book Cafe (Wisconsen)
      http://college.library.wisc.edu/news/cafe/cafe_area.html

      I love the graphic logo for the:
      Santa Fe Springs City Library's "Cafe Libro"
      www.santafesprings.org/cafelib.htm
       


      Starbucks and Library Brew Up Partnership 
      The two main staples of the Pacific Northwest, with its overabundance of cool, rainy days, are strong, hot coffee and good, thick books. It's here that a strong alliance was born between a busy public library in Portland, Oregon and the ubiquitous Starbucks Coffee chain, based in neighboring Seattle; a private/public sector partnership that benefits both a corporation and the community.
      http://www.multcolib.org/products/entre/espresso.html
       

      Brew Up Some Bookmarks
      Wake Up And Smell The Coffee

      http://www.ssdesign.com/librarypr/content/p110800a.shtml

      Coffee Cart Opens in Library
      http://manta.library.colostate.edu/coffee.html
       

      Cup & Chaucer Café - History
      http://www.newington.lib.ct.us/cupchaucer.htm
      Lucy Robbins Welles Library
      95 Cedar Street
      Newington,CT 06111 
      tel: (860) 665-8700 
      fax: (860) 667-1255

      CAFE TO PERCOLATE AT PENFIELD LIBRARY
      http://www.oswego.edu/other_campus/proffice/releases/mar02/libcafe.html

      Books, Bagels, and Coffee Cafe Announcements & Reminders
      PDF File
      http://www.cuw.edu/library/LibCom/vol4no2.pdf


      Javas@
      http://www.javasat.biz/
      We work with colleges and universities to create unique, city-like cafes right on campus. Our goal is to provide students with a better quality of life—a meeting place that’s not a bar and not a library. A place to study, read, debate, listen to music, and meet new people. 
      A place to call their own

      Read: from the Carroll College Library - Waukesha, WI 
      Coffee Shop News
      Marian the Librarian's "Top 10 Coffee Shop Etiquette Tips"
       

      Not convinced that you want to have a Library Coffee Cafe..
      For fun:
      Sing this song
      LIBRARIES ARE NO PLACE TO EAT
      The words are by Dennis Perry, Circulation Dept., Wilson Library, Western Washington University, and are meant to be sung to the tune of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town".
      http://www.funnytummy.com/humor/libraries.html
      Related: Link to other examples of Library Songs
      on the Library Humor page

      If you prefer "drinking and eating" and enjoying books in the company of 
      your friends and in the comfort of your own homes -
      On My Sipping Tea.com site I have links
      to those interested in forming  a Tea Time Book Club
      or it could be a Coffee & Book Club too..
      Link on over to:
      http://sippingtea.com/books.html

      Maybe your Library has a Community Room where such a group 
      could meet & be set up and find a home, as well!

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