Life's Too Short For The Wrong Job

These and other great ads by a bank in Denmark (Middelfart Sparekasse) can be found on the web site Positive Sharing filed under Happiness at Work

A Novel Idea

Funny entry by IronicSans.com about the trend in recent years, and more often RECENTLY, for the words 'a novel' to be part of the cover or title of published fiction. For a fun game of find-the-book from the 'novel' title, visit the Book Trend: A Novel.

Numbers Up

"Today's libraries are more than just shelves of books. Visitors can get music, movies, audiobooks and instructional videos. There are banks of computers with high-speed connections to the Internet and meeting rooms used by community groups and business mentors. Some libraries have coffee shops and used-book stores."

Read the Denver Post article and be assured that library visitors AND circulation are increasing at the nation's libraries. Bellingham Public Library's visitors and circulation increased once again this year. *The circulation figure for the Bellingham Public Library, from August 2006 through July 2007 or Fiscal Year 2007, was a total of 118,590 items. The same figure for Fiscal Year 2006 was 105143. Therefore, our circulation increased 13%. The Fiscal Year 2005 figure was near 80000 items. You can read the Annual Report Information Statistics filed with the MBLC on September 1, 2007 for other information on your library in Bellingham.

Marriage

"Marriage may be made in heaven, but the maintenance must be done on earth."

Beautiful Libraries

To see sixty-five photos of the most breathtakingly beautiful libraries in the world, including this one of the Boston Copley Public Library, visit The Librophiliac Love Letter. You won't be able to view just one. It is inspirational.

Remember September 11, 2001

Libraries represent freedom
of expression,
preservation of heritage
and equal access to knowledge.
The Bellingham Public Library
offers a fitting tribute on
September 11th doing what we do best –
disseminating information,
facilitating communication,
fostering citizenship,
promoting understanding,
guaranteeing freedom of access to information and encouraging learning and reading.
American public libraries stand with doors open as a remarkable symbol of freedom.

Jane's Picks

Jane Dutton, Director of the Gale Free Library in Holden, MA, amazes me with her voracious reading habit. If only I was this well-read! I do seem to have a great knack for having ordered Jane's taste in books for our library ... and someday hope to have read more of them when she comes out with her quarterly recommended book list, Jane's Picks:

Keeping the House by Ellen Baker
Away by Amy Bloom
Last Summer of You and Me by Ann Brashares
Rope Walk by Carrie Brown
House Lights by Leah Hager cohen
Maytrees by Annie Dillard
The Landing by Emma Donoghue
Bride Island by Alexandra Enders
Envious Moon by Thomas Christopher Greene
North River by Pete Hamill
Stormy Weather by Paulette Jiles
A Peculiar Grace by Jeffrey Lent
On Chesil Beach by ian McEwan
Red Rover by Deirdre McNamer
Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller
On Kingdom Mountain by Howard Frank Mosher
Rest of Her Life by laura Moriarty
When the World Was Young by Tony Romano
Peony in Love by Linda See
How to Talk to a Widower by Jonathan Tropper

and the mysteries:
Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke<
Always by Nicola Griffith
War Against Miss Winter by Kathryn Miller Haines
Gray Ghost by William Tapply

Mueck Sculptures at Brooklyn Museum

The unbelievably realistic sculptures of artist Mueck are on display through February 2007 in New York. Watch the film here.

311: Reference Gets It Right In San Francisco

San Francisco has initiated a wonderful reference service that librarians are much to busy to deal with. Sounds like a great idea to me.

From Library Link of the Day

Books Under Fire

The 10 most-challenged books of 2006, according to the American Library Association (complaints sited in parentheses):

1. And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell (homosexuality, anti-family and unsuited to age group)

2. The Gossip Girls series by Cecily Von Ziegesar (homosexuality, sexual content, drugs, unsuited to age group and offensive language)

3. The Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (sexual content and offensive language)

4. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler (sexual content, anti-family, offensive language and unsuited to age group)

5. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (sexual content, offensive language and unsuited to age group)

6. The Scary Stories series by Alvin Schwartz (occult/Satanism, unsuited to age group, violence and insensitivity)

7. Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher (homosexuality and offensive language)

8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (homosexuality, sexually explicit, offensive language and unsuited to age group)

9. Beloved by Toni Morrison (offensive language, sexual content and unsuited to age group)

10. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier (sexual content, offensive language and violence)

Read an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. And remember that September 29th through October 6th is Banned Books Week at America's libraries.