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Wisconsin police are cracking down hard on people who don’t return their library books. Question - of all the books to not return, why hang on to two Dan Brown books?

The Chicago Tribune reports on how librarians are mixing video games in with the books to sneakily encourage those teenage gamers to become interested in books. Here are a few suggestions from me….

Grand Theft Auto with American Pyscho by Bret Easton Ellis
Guitar Hero with Rock Star by Jackie Collins
Mario with The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Pacman with Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Sim City with Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Some British authors and historians have stopped complaining about the declining number of readers and the death of the book just long enough to draw a breath and start complaining about something new. The British Library has put a real cramp in their life by, and please try to contain your anger upon hearing this, allowing students to use the libraries services.

What gall!

Imagine the horror of having to queue for a service, and in England of all places. Students using libraries, I have never heard of such a preposterous notion.

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Libraries in the UK are looking at ways to step in to the 21st century.

George at BookNinja echo’s my sentiments almost exactly.

A quarter of a million books have gone missing from libraries in Waltham Forest (a small town just outside of London) - book-burners are suspected.

Reuters has a story about how the British Library is restoring its collection of rare books.

One of the world’s greatest libraries, the Bodleian in Oxford, is full, reports The Guardian.

In an interesting New York Times article, a number of top C.E.O.’s (Michael Moritz, Phil Knight, etc) comment on their own personal libraries. Apparently the key to success is “don’t follow your mentors, follow your mentors’ mentors.”