Survival tip of the week: how to put those old nuclear shelters to good use.

I can never get enough of warm-and-fuzzy bookmobile/roving-library stories like this one. If you live in the South County area, consider volunteering.

On the wonderful and largely overlooked world of indexers and indexing.

Bibliomania, uncovered.

Pissed about feds in your library? Why not put up a sign or two? [via librarian]

Ralph Nader goes to bat for DC libraries, because "Nader is a library person." Such a useful description, that.

Nominate your favourite government document published in 2002 here, and read about the program here.

Go get your 2002 Year-End Google Zeitgeist.

If you liked the first one, you're going to love Revolting Librarians Redux [via librarian].

9 male staff members at BL have their hands slapped for poor judgement.

That fire in Edinbugh also destroyed one librarian's life's work.

If you're looking for something to do in New York City next month, consider Spies in the Stacks [thanks whoever subitted this].

Complete this survey on internet filtering in public libraries, and help a grad student out.

A headline worthy of an epitaph: "Man of many library cards".

britishpathe.com is a digital news archive covering the period from 1896-1970. Looks promising, but for the hefty online reproduction costs and annoying flash intro.

The International Children's Digital Library gets written up.

National City is getting some new libraries.

The Washington State Library might be in trouble.

MediaRights.org is a "Web site that is designed to help you use social issue documentary films." They have some good resources on documentary film as community resource like tip sheets and how-to guides.

Preservation of content does not equal preservation of access, and this little anecdote provides the prefect ironic example. Discussion at Slashdot.

This librarian champions the modern day card catalogue. And she's also Alabama's oldest librarian. Coincidence? Pshaw, some of us still love the card catalogue.

In honour of World AIDS Day, Bibliolatry is participating in Link and Think 2002.

One of the reasons why net-filtering in libraries should not be allowed to happen is because the software currently available filters out useful stuff like information on HIV/AIDS.

The AIDS Memorial Quilt is being displayed in public libraries across the US as part of World AIDS Day.

The AIDS Committee of Toronto has a great library collection and online catalogue that provides access to all sorts of resources.

CATIE, the Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange, has a mandate to improve the quality of life of all people living with HIV/AIDS, and their library is devoted to treatment resources.