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Rachel Singer Gordon asks, “What do people read outside the library field?” dooce – “I’m Heather B. Armstrong. This is my website.” A List Apart – “For people who make websites” Church of the Customer – by Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba, authors of Citizen Marketers and Creating Customer Evangelists National Geographic News – Jurassic …

Bookbinding Exhibit at Bryn Mawr

If you are in the Philadelphia area between next Tuesday and June 3rd, may I suggest checking out Bryn Mawr College’s exhibition on bookbinding, curated by the College’s honorary curator of bookbindings, Willman Spawn? I was lucky enough to work as an intern in Bryn Mawr’s Special Collections department, full of beautiful bindings, and to …

New Bird in Colombia

It’s my birthday, which means it’s time for another diversion. This guy (girl?), a Yariguíes brush finch, comes in my favorite colors and lives in “the last remnants of a remote Colombian cloud forest,” according to the National Geographic News article.

Dewey Decibel System

This American Life just repeated its episode from 8/5/05, which includes an act about rock concerts in Michigan public libraries. The theme of the episode? “Stories of people and institutions who are worried about what the world thinks of them, and who take action, decisive action.” Streaming is free, podcasts are not.