{"id":3669,"date":"2011-02-07T03:45:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T03:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:22:25","slug":"shhh-ins-and-a-book-snatcher-to-save-libraries-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2011\/02\/07\/shhh-ins-and-a-book-snatcher-to-save-libraries-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Shhh-ins and a book snatcher to save libraries in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/culture\/culture-cuts-blog\/2011\/feb\/05\/save-our-libraries-day-live-coverage\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1020\" title=\"logo\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/logo.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>February 5, 2011 was Save Our Libraries Day in the United Kingdom. In Milborne Port in Somerset a hooded &#8220;book snatcher&#8221; stole books from children, and protesters in Sheffield held a shhh-in. There was a flashmob read-aloud in Cambridge, and we hear one supporter of libraries spent the day &#8220;joyreading.&#8221; This image is a &#8220;logo&#8221; for the Woburn Sands library &#8212; I love how it&#8217;s a sort of anti-logo, NOT the usual simple, simplified, simplistic, bombastic, corporate logo. Thanks, Dina Wood!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 5, 2011 was Save Our Libraries Day in the United Kingdom. In Milborne Port in Somerset a hooded &#8220;book snatcher&#8221; stole books from children, and protesters in Sheffield held a shhh-in. There was a flashmob read-aloud in Cambridge, and we hear one supporter of libraries spent the day &#8220;joyreading.&#8221; This image is a &#8220;logo&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-Xb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4207,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions\/4207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}