Category: books

People who still love words have to be forgiven everything.

Also, I just finished Tara’s book Web Search Garage and really got a lot out of it. She discusses more than Google, more than syntax, and more than just the basics and offers some really good step-by-step approaches to ferreting out tough-to-find information specifically the things that are not just Googleable. I will give you a dollar if you read this book and don’t learn at least one new thing from it. Check out the preview chapter and a few freebies on her page.

A short short story, written entirely in copyright statements. [teleread]

It was really gratifying seeing so many librarians and others putting their reading lists online. Even though we don’t do a lot of reading at our jobs, I think being well and broadly-read is an important part to being a good librarian. Here’s one last not-online reading list that I’ve been enjoying over this wintery weekend.

The 15-week best selling book America The Book, besides being unavailable at Wal-Mart, was also being banned by the Southern Mississippi library system because it contains the heads of the Supreme Court justices superimposed on age-appropriate naked bodies. Apparently, as of today, the library system has reversed their decision.