Love is in the air 

{pictureRef(, align:"right")} It's Library Lovers' Month!!!

Library Lovers' Month is a month-long celebration of school, public, and private libraries of all types. This is a time for everyone, especially library support groups, to recognize the value of libraries and to work to assure that the Nation's libraries will continue to serve.

How To Love Your Library

Take A Librarian To Lunch

Renovation? 

CENTRAL LIBRARY FIX-UP: Critics say 'weeding' more like clear-cutting by Charles Yoo

Hundreds of books and periodicals are being removed from shelves at the Atlanta-Fulton Central Library downtown.

The items are going as part of a $3.1 million renovation of the library that calls for adding materials and computers, according to library officials.

Some folks, however, are angry at the change. They say the removal is butchery of the library's collection by a tyrannical administration. [read more]

Oh, the horror! 

Stephen King ready to close book as writer?

Is Stephen King hanging it up?

The prolific King of Horror said as much in an interview in Sunday's Los Angeles Times.

After he publishes five more books, two of which already are scheduled for 2002 -- including a collection of short stories -- as well as work on a limited series for ABC, he's ending his career in publishing, he said.

"Then that's it. I'm done. Done writing books," he told the Times' Kim Murphy.

Why? he was asked.

"You get to a point where you get to the edges of a room, and you can go back and go where you've been and basically recycle stuff," he said. [read more]