Book scavenging in NYC..?

Interesting article in the NY Times:

Their house to yours, via the trash

I didn't know that many people throw books away.

The 10 best books of 2007

It's pretty amazing how out of touch I have become with the new/popular book culture since I started working here at the UAF Library. I only recognized one of the titles from The 10 Best Books of 2007 list. This probably just means I should go to Barnes and Nobles more often.. ;)

Digital library exceeds 1 million books

Here is an article from yahoo.com about a joint project to digitize books between several colleges in the U.S., India and China.

Digital library exceeds 1 million books

Books in the New York Times

Here is an interesting book resource with reviews and everything book-related.

New York Times - Arts - Books

Pimp (decorate) my Bookcart!

This is such a great idea – decorating bookcarts! I think this summer when it slows down here at the library, each department should work as a team to decorate a bookcart! We could put the entries on display on level four. Here are some (of the 129) entries submitted from across the nation. Pimp my Bookcart

Books on the web

Here's an interesting article called Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web. This article discusses the project Google Book Search . Google has been scanning full books into their search engine. I am wondering how InterLibrary Loan is affected by this and if they know about this emerging service.

Unshelved!

Cool! I just happened upon this comic stip about libraries. It is called Unshelved.
Here is some history behind it.
Here is the link to the daily comic.