putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999
Oddly, the small goverment folks and the big government folks tend to agree on the downsides to the invasiveness of the USA PATRIOT Act. An article from everyone’s favorite Libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute.
Bookstore sorts all books by color for one week as an art project [more photos]. [metafilter
It’s just an eye-candy sort of day. Here are some old photos of libraries from the San Joaquin Valley sent in by Michael Farrelly. [technocratic]
Got to stay home and mind the store while Internet Librarian is happening in Monterey? Richard Akerman has set up this Kinja Digest that pulls together the posts of people who are attending. If you’re already an RSS fanatic, Kinja may not be what you need, but if you’re curious about feeds and blogs but you’re not quite sure how to get started, check Kinja out.
I rarely link to library programming ideas here, but I mist say that the Friday night events that the La Crosse WI library is holding for the wives of deer hunters really sounds like something libraries out this way should be thinking about.