Another report with alarming implications: your Canadian ISP may soon have to tell on you.

LLRX has a new Search Engine Resource page that deserves a place in any favourites file.

A new book club, if you like book clubs, over at BBC Worldservice.

Here's a neat idea: a workshop called "How Libraries and Librarians Help" (via LND)

Celebrating the library of days past.

A reality checklist for library management: can your library system do all this?

Stealth Librarian is still telling it like it is, but at a new URL.

Have a look at The Great Librarian Adventure, designed to improve librarians' profiles to the general public.

The fine folks at LII have a new offering called Free Range Librarian. Yum.

If you have any interest in publishing in the library field, NMRTWriter is the listserv for you.

For those of us not familiar with all the funky science reference tools out there, Scirus, a search engine for scientific information, is worth bookmarking.

This headline is enough to make you seethe: Librarians, not books, get bucks. I admit that I know very little about the public library system in Seattle, but going dark this week can't be the only way to shrink costs.

And why not? Having an automated system send out overdue notices is one (of a very few) decent way to put such a system to good use. It probably costs less than printing and mailing paper notices, and is definitely more environmentally-friendly.

It's been a while since we've had one of these articles.

Here's an editorial in today's NYT on the need to distinguish between the utility of the Internet vs. the public library.

There is a whole lot of public-library-lovin' going on here. OK, another group hug.

This article tells of the impact the flooding in Prague is having on the country's national treasures.

Quiet day at the reference desk? Take the Google Quiz (and win googley-stuff).

This one's for MJ: the National Library and Archives of Canada have put together this great page called Guardians of the North: the National Superhero in Canadian Comic-Book Art. And just in time for the Canadian National Comic Book Expo this weekend.

And yet another neat offering from the NLC: this page on Canadian Private Presses.

This site provides a nice gateway to the history of Northwestern Ontario, if you're into that kind of thing.

A big hurrah for Caterina, who claims to owe her sanity and survival to public libraries. Group hug [thanks Juanita]

This is all very exciting: Deep in the Stacks takes us behind the scenes at LoC, with Librarian X as our guide [via Juice].

This is an old one but I just stumbled upon it: a study out of UC Berkeley that attempts to measure how much information is produced in the world each year.

Here's a succinct editorial on the child-porn-in-libraries issue, a la the Kent County dispute.

Score one for librarians: they get to keep their decision-making power re: collections in this school.

Edwin Morgan's lovely ode to libraries is here (written for the IFLA conference in Glasgow). [via Stuff]

Don't usually announce new books unless the topic fascinates me, and this does: Archives and the Public Good: Accountability and Records in Modern Society, edited by Richard J. Cox and David A. Wallace. Read the intro.

And here's today's decent idea: Steven @ Stuff is planning a 9/11 anniversary issue on LS and wants to hear from you. So send him your thoughts.

This one is old but I just discovered it: a study at UC Berkeley to determine how much information is produced each year, worldwide.

This editorial on child-porn-in-libraries sums up the issue succinctly, a la the Kent County case.

Score one for librarians: these librarians get to keep their decision-making powers re: the school's collection. And it's a good thing too.

Edwin Morgan's lovely ode to libraries is here (written for the opening of the IFLA conference in Glasgow). [via Stuff]

Don't usually post on new books unless the topic fascinates me, and this one does: Archives and the Public Good: Accountability and Records in Modern Society, edited by Richard J. Cox and David A. Wallace. Read the intro.

And here's today's decent idea: Steven @ Stuff is planning a 9/11 anniversary issue of LS and he wants to hear from you. So send him your thoughts.

This doesn't sound good: rural libraries are in tough.

Keep a look out for this digital archive: personal 9/11 responses.

News of the 1930 census at your library.

Here's a little something special: the National Library of Canada has this great page on Canadian sheet music.

I think I knew about this one but must have forgotten: Librarian's Datebook.

Lovely little article on the necessity of library survival.

Librarians speak out against the whole patriot thing.

This article provides a nice precis of the FTC recommendation to search engines and what we can expect to see as a result.

More banned books: these folks can't even defend their position by claiming to have read these books - because they didn't.

Somebody give this guy a medal: finally, someone with the right priorities.

Well, maybe it doesn't take a librarian to show someone how to use the Internet, but is this the shape of things to come, given the reality of shrinking budgets?

Score one for privacy and personal rights: the Police have to return those computers they seized without a warrant.

Today's SearchDay has a nice little plug for LC's Ask a Librarian service.

Remember me asking everyone about news aggregators? Well, according to Steven Cohen (Library Stuff guru), Amphetadesk is it.

Our beloved LII has a blog. Thank you.

Bored at the reference desk? Have a look at these Google logo alternatives. [via Google Weblog]

A ps to the Faking It post from yesteday: the show is looking for female librarians between the ages of 18-30. [sorry Karl]

A new study is claiming that roughly 10% of the world has internet access.

Good news re: preservation of digital information: IFLA has issued a statement, so that probably means that things will start to get done.

Sign me up: any conference whose raison d'etre is to celebrate libraries sounds like a good conference to me.

You know how you discover a great resource and then forget all about it, only to rediscover it a few years later making you wish you'd never forgotten it in the first place? Infomine is it for me this week.

Finally! A reality show for librarians: Faking it is looking for a librarian for a new episode. No kidding - here's an excerpt from the flyer:

"We are currently looking to do a segment on an 18-30 yr. old librarian (or anyone who works in the library world) who would, over a period of three weeks, transform into a completely different profession. The segment would produce a 60 minute show that would follow her/his transformation"

- Contact Casey Kriley at RDF Media if you're interested.

Another library-board-does-silly-thing story: what a great way to spend $12,000.

Someone in Chesterton Loves a Library Worker: there should be more of this going on.

New blog with much potential: the Banned Books Project.

This soundbite gives you more than you ever needed to know about Google; and if you still haven't had enough, here's a Q&A session.

Anyone have any ideas on where I can get an old card catalog unit? It seems as though I am about 6 years too late for libraries' discards. Let me know because i really want one. Thanks.

Bibliolatry notes: i've decided to display only today's post on the main page, so people who read Bibliolatry through the RSS feed don't have to see the same stuff for three days. All older posts will be archived, as usual. Also, I've started adding to each day's post more than once, so visit often. If you are on my notifylist, you can still expect a message.

Precious! The miniature book library is worth exploring; a neat take on the chain letter premise.

The Canadian National Institute for the Blind is undertaking a groundbreaking effort to digitize its library. Read their press release.

The topic of the British Columbia Library Association Information Policy Committee 2002 conference sounds really interesting: Consider the Alternatives: Information Access in Times of Crisis. Take a look at the conference program.

Jeffrey Zeldman is scheduled to be at Web Builder 2002 to speak on websites being obsolete.

That dispute over daddy's library has been resolved.

Air-conditioning in your library is not just good for the books (see "advertise air-conditioning"), it's good for stats.

Bibliolatry note: i've reached saturation point with e-books bits; you will find them on these pages no more. Amen.

A big pat on the back for the designer who decided that circulation systems did not need to retain historical borrowing records: more on the FBI routing through your patron records.

Patrons love it, librarians complain: Jacksonville University library gets classical music.

Another one that has gone the way of the NYT: the Washington Post now requires registration to access full text.

Guess what, the strike wasn't averted after all: the British Library will operate with limited service for two days.

All I want for Christmas is the new AACR2. [via catalogablog]

AllTheWeb has responded to the recommendation of full disclosure of paid content [earlier post]; take a look at their search results info page, and read Fast's press release here.

Another presidential library: this one is for Woodrow Wilson.

Tomorrow's library will include drive-thru book drops, self-checkouts and wireless librarians: plans are afoot in King County, Washington.

Another story of theft-meets-profit at the expense of the local library, this time in Tennessee.

Somebody please keep an eye on this one: feds are undertaking plans to build a superdatabase with all sorts of personal info.

Libraries appear to be doing OK in the UK.

Google, meet the NYT. And there I was thinking I'd made it to the big paper.

This sounds like a good problem: how to spend $20m on a library in daddy's honour.

The 24 hour strike in the UK that was planned for today has been averted.

NARA is proposing a redesign of federal records management policies and procedures, and they're looking for feedback. The proposal is here and find out how to send in your comments here.

This one gives a whole new meaning to the term "infomaniac". Hey, whatever brings folks into the library.

Some of this might be old news, but I've been away for a couple of days, so bear with me...

Can your library's administration tell you what to wear? Within reason, some guidelines are probably acceptable. But should they be allowed to stifle personal expression? I should hope not.

For anyone who does library instruction, this sounds like a neat book.

The National Book Festival has a lovely little site. Why stop there? Attend and you could meet Laura Bush.

More on that topic that makes so many of us groan: the research habits of college students. The OCLC study is here; and take a look at the survey responses here.

I'm no Luddite, but this can't be a good thing: Is this school going paperless just to see if they can pull it off? It seems to me that any "resource centre" without books is pretty resource-poor.

If you like your Google Toolbar, you'll love UltraBar . Hopefully it will pack the same punch as the protein-packed lunch replacement namesake.

Bored at the reference desk? Deja-vu takes you back to the dark ages of browsing.

Rare book notes: a lost Cortes manuscript is found by catalogue librarians in Mexico.

A couple of items of interest from LII: a medical reference for non-medical librarians; a neat little directory of internet searches; and the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative.

One of the Bodleian's treasures is going online.

Utah's libraries need help. Hope they aren't shortsighted in their struggle to update and upgrade - wouldn't want to see anything happen to those quaint little library buildings.

sniff, sniff: Newbreed Librarian is signing off. Thanks for sharing the love Juanita & Colleen, it's been a slice. Read the last issue here.

Yesterday's scribes are today's font designers. See what I'm talking about.

So i aggregate with AmphetaDesk v 0.93, and i'm happy-ish with it, but i'm curious about what other people use and if they'd recommend the service. Let me know, K?

With all the recent rumbling about filtering laws, you'll need to read this piece on why they shouldn't bother.

Sadly, the GPO may soon be defunct. Here's the story.

We all read about the robolibrarian Johns Hopkins built right? Well, here's another look at the implications of the said robolibrarian. Scary stuff.

Historical issues of the Wall Street Journal, back to 1889, are now searchable, thanks to Proquest. With a subscription, of course.

China accounts for the second largest web audience, behind the US, which means that someone in China is probably reading this. Welcome.

Blogtalk: the media is reading and apparently we're getting to them...

Isn't it about time somebody pulled together a list of librarians-in-advertisements? I'm on it. Here's the first (via LISNews).