Want to keep your loved ones close to you [and your books] even in the afterlife? How about these book shaped urns? [thanks jude]
Category: books
barry the book, library repo man
While I think it’s going overboard to sic collection agencies on people for overdue fines, having this man show up on your doorstep just to pick up the books you haven’t returned might not be all bad.
Avid reader Barry, who works 18 hours a week and holds his own library card, applied for the position of library stock recovery officer with Bury council when he was made redundant from a Manchester-based debt collection agency in 1999. He now collects up to 40 books a day for Bury’s seven public libraries on his rounds in his car. [thanks jen]
even I don’t have this sort of free time – the bookshelf project
What is on Jonah Edwards’ bookshelves? Part of the larger bookshelf project on Flickr.
now I’ll never get to read How To Make Love Like a Porn Star
Libraries still not buying porn, or even books that seem like they might be porn. While I object to the misuse of the word schizophrenia this article otherwise has some good points about what librarians say versus what they do in their own librarias as far as sexually explicit books are concerned.
[T]he absence of the book [How To Make Love Like a Porn Star] confirms what some of my librarian friends have said for years: we merely give lip service to the First Amendment. We bypass some books with sexual content to forestall challenges to the collection before they even arise. Given the current climate of religious conservatism and tight budgets, perhaps that’s not so surprising. [thanks matthew]
books and war
FDR reminds us that Books are Weapons in the War of Ideas [larger image]. Here’s another Books Are Weapons poster.