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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 2000
Page
3
Bar codes appear on books signaling a major shift to automated circulation at the Ottawa Library. The system will speed checkouts, enable self service, holds, and personalized accounts while staff train Nov 6–9.
Author R L Stine sits in a black desk chair amid skeletons and shelves of Goosebumps, preparing a new Nightmare Room series for 8 to 12 year olds. He discusses fear as a safe thrill, compares Nightmare Room to Twilight Zone, and notes plans for 12 slim paperbacks. He remains the acclaimed author behind Goosebumps and Fear Street with 300 million books sold.
Publishers Weekly top lists show Drowning Ruth and The Rescue leading hardcover fiction, with The Beatles Anthology and On Writing among nonfiction favorites. Mass market and trade paperbacks feature titles from Sparks to Kingsolver, Haruf, and McCourt across diverse publishers.
The Olathe Public Library board voted 5 to 1 to stop marking books as suitable for Christians after the ACLU raised concerns. Dick Kurtenbach said the establishment clause is violated and warned of potential legal action, while library president David Ahlstrom defended the stickers as a patron service.
New York AP report says Joe DiMaggio's biographer Richard Ben Cramer depicts Morris Engelberg as cheating the Yankee star out of memorabilia value in his final years. Engelberg rejects the claims calling them absurd and notes substantial waived fees over 16 years. The book excerpts appear in Newsweek detailing a 1998 DiMaggio Day memorabilia scheme.
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