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Maine is one of the few areas where library patrons will offer to bring you venison in exchange for your hard work.

With one of the authors of this site just out of school and the other wrapping it up in 2011, this article is of particular interest.

The Google Book Settlement could easily be the twenty-first century's most important shift in how we deal with copyright in the world of publishing. Here is an article that breaks down the legal nitty-gritty into a digestible format.

The Work Projects Administration (WPA) created a number of iconic images designed to promote the arts, public welfare, and patriotism.  This particular one, promoting library use, was created in 1940. The Library of Congress has a great Flickr page of Library propaganda here.

And a Happy 259th Birthday to Mr. James Madison!

Oh my gosh. Just click it. Enjoy.

Click-through for the full-size comic.

Honestly. you should probably donate money and money only to organizations like The Red Cross or Doctors Without Borders or Partners in Health before donating to any kind of preservation initiative (even library lovers like us know this) but here is some information regardless.

Since 1990, Luis Sorianohas used donkeys to bring mobile library to children in rural Colombia.  Soriano, 38, is a primary school teacher who spends his free time operating a "biblioburro," a mobile library on donkeys that offers reading education for hundreds of children living in what he describes as "abandoned regions" in the Colombian state of Magdalena.

As much as I sup­port, love, and advo­cate for user-centered plan­ning and design, my big regret about the whole “move­ment” is that it hasn’t focused more on how L2 helps staff.