Kensal Rise library offered lifeline after council’s night-time book clearance Brent council officials agree to discuss campaigners’ proposal of running library at no ongoing cost to local authority A historic library threatened with closure could survive as a community-run project on the basis of a tentative deal that has emerged just days after council workers backed by police carried out an early morning operation to strip it of its books and the plaque commemorating its opening 112 years ago by Mark Twain.  Read full article here: This article appeared  on p9 of the Main section section of    the Guardian    on Friday 1 June 2012.    It was published…

By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS Associated Press TULSA, Okla. June 2, 2012 (AP)   Experts: Okla., Not Texas, Had Hottest Summer Ever http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/experts-okla-texas-hottest-summer-16480309   Oklahoma and Texas have argued for years about which has the best college football team, whose oil fields produce better crude, even where the state border should run. But in a hot, sticky dispute that no one wants to win, Oklahoma just reclaimed its crown. After recalculating data from last year, the nation’s climatologists are declaring that Oklahoma suffered through the hottest summer ever recorded in the U.S. last year — not Texas as initially announced last fall. “It doesn’t make me feel any better,” joked Texas rancher…

On May 31, 1859  Big Ben rings out over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, for the first time.

at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library in downtown Dallas was rediscovered in 1968 during the closing of a Philadelphia book store, where it languished in storage for more than 100 years.   By SCOTT FARWELL SCOTT FARWELL The Dallas Morning NewsStaff Writer sfarwell@dallasnews.com Published: 02 July 2011 11:59 PM In a dimly lit room at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library — floating in a glass case controlled for temperature, humidity and light — sits a national treasure, a first-edition copy of  Full Article