As part of the library cull that accompanied moving our books to make room for SteelyKid, Kate and I are giving away some of our duplicate/ unlikely-to-be-read books. On Saturday, whatever is left will be donated to our local library book sale, but if you'd like to spare us the work of carting all those books down to the library, you can claim them for yourself by going to Kate's LiveJournal and following the instructions.
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Via a mailing list, the Top 1000 Books in the US, ranked in order of library holdings. The Top 25 (after the cut):
As is occasionally my habit when a big story breaks, I have gathered together all the relevant documents I could find concerning the recent controversy about the Canadian Conservative government's recent consolidation of the libraries at their Department of Fisheries & Oceans.
7 Things Librarians Are Tired of Hearing
Library without books debuts at Florida’s newest college
Thanks to Mark Spicer for bringing this item to my attention. Note that the site I'm linking to sells printer cartridges, but still has some cool content.
I highly recommend The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce and Silverlock by John Myers Myers to anyone who doesn't have them already.
So... I am not familiar with any of the books on Kate's list, and therefore don't know what I want without looking at the books themselves, but I love science fiction and fantasy and would love to take some of them. Also, as a recent Union grad, I'm still living nearby. Any chance we could work something out, along the lines of me coming by your office or home, picking out some books, and saving you the effort of having to ship them or cart them off to the library?