Shattered. I had no idea that Carolyn Keene did not exit. And who is this Mildred Wirt Benson anyway?

[Aside] [If you aren't familiar with salon.com's Masterpiece feature, you should be. Two great articles out recently: Seinfeld & Kieslowski.]

amazon.ca is here. Many are not pleased about the threat to Canadian "cultural heritage" posed by the arrival of the book-selling behemoth north of the border. Canada Post partners with amazon & we're calling for federal intervention? Whatever.

You've got to love Jonathan Darby's response to Sony Barari's pitiful attempt at satire. On the other hand, that Barari's temerity can get librarians into such a tizzy is just laughable on so many levels...!

And, this is old news, but I'm still reeling, the National Library of Ireland recently acquired a large collection of previously unknown James Joyce manuscripts and papers. Michael Groden (a former prof of mine!) comments.

A public library on the site of Ground Zero? Roger Rosenblatt explains.

If you build it, will they come? Are school libraries are making a comeback?

Another article rehashing the whole library/e-book debate? Yes. But this one is new.

Canada Reads is a great little program on CBC Radio that has announced it's return in 2003. Canadian fiction is more popular than ever, yay!

And this has alarming implications - the FBI is going into the nation's libraries and looking into terrorist suspects' library records. Read more.

So, there are rules to follow if you plan on introducing a new cat to your old cat. We followed them. Still, there was much chasing this weekend.

How one guy managed to get away with stealing hundreds of medieval manuscripts from the library at Mont Sainte-Odile.

Take a look at a great online exhibition on the anti-slavery movement in Canada at the National Archives of Canada website.

You know how you read or hear about a person, name or idea, and then, all of a sudden, that person, name or idea keeps smacking you in the face everywhere you look? Werner Heisenberg is that person for me this week.

Winners of the Webby awards were announced Tuesday.

No surprise here: libraries are in need of librarians.

The National Library of Sweden is collecting and archiving all websites created in Sweden. The Swedish government has recently said that this is OK.

Richard Watson has written a “skeptical biography” of Descartes, and Douglas Coupland has a new book coming out on what it means to be Canadian.

Sebastian is the new member of the family. We thought we were getting a charcoal grey DSH, but it turns out that he is a grey tabby. Talk about misrepresenting himself. Does it matter? Not really, although the debate about coat colour and temperament rages on.

74 years later, a library book finds its home.

A garage library, bookstore and art gallery in Edmonton provides the voice for "those indy-arty types".

Students at Canadian universities can now borrow books from any university library in Canada. Read all about it.

And this isn't news, but this guy is painting some great images of the Mont Ventoux region in Provence.

[Aside] [Medieval fun with Flash... Take a peek into a day in the life of Christine - a fifteenth Century Parisian girl, niece of Christine de Pisan... complete with video clip narration and downloadable desktop themes!]

Host researching has been fun. As was the decision to add a blog. I like the fact that things will change from day-to-day. Some things at least.

Some interesting news for the day: 7-Up is seeing the backlash against their recent "Captive Audience" ads; nearly went to the catacombs in Paris last summer, but they were closed on the day we selected for the trip...an interesting story about one man's trip through the medieval quarry tunnels.