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Wednesday 7 March 2007

7 days of library news:

Attainment: New Books Out Next Week
US publication.
Shelf Awareness, Tuesday 6 March 2007

Librarians on a Mission
Quotation of the day.
Shelf Awareness, Tuesday 6 March 2007

Digital information escalates
The growth in digital information.
theBookseller.com, Tuesday 6 March 2007

Misery is the book world's boom sector
"...Waterstone's installing a "painful lives" section and Borders establishing a "real lives" category."
theBookseller.com, Monday 5 March 2007

What they want/What they need
"Institutions balance the demand for popular titles with the need to carry scholarly books."
LISNews, Sunday 4 March 2007

A Cozy Book Club, in a Virtual Reading Room
Online social networking and LibraryThing. (Library Link of the Day, 04/03/07.)
The New York Times, Sunday 4 March 2007

Hentoff Urges "Read a Burned Book"
"Cuba's persecuted independent librarians"
LISNews, Saturday 3 March 2007

Commercial Reading Incentives Attacked
LISNews, Saturday 3 March 2007

DCMS looks for new advisory council
Advisory Council on Libraries (ACL). (Subscription article, subscribe cost free.)
theBookseller.com, Friday 2 March 2007

Pride and Prejudice is top read
"survey to mark World Book Day"
LISNews, Thursday 1 March 2007

UK: A Blueprint for Excellence - Public Libraries 2008-2011
"consultation document ... published by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council"
ResourceShelf, Thursday 1 March 2007

Fountain and Blehm win Barnes and Noble award
"14th annual Discover Great New Writers Award" (subscription article, subscribe cost free).
theBookseller.com, Wednesday 28 February 2007

Lambeth Palace library to go online
"the historic library and record office of the Archbishops of Canterbury, and the main repository of the documentary history of the Church of England"
LISNews, Wednesday 28 February 2007