The almighty library book selectors
The New York Public Library (NYPL) has 16 selectors and helpers. These 16 people are responsible for choosing the books that get a space on the shelves that will later… Read more »
Of witchcraft, Jack the Ripper, the University of Nebraska, and three very late library books
Last month, we reported on a torn-up Soul on Ice returned to the San Francisco Public Library forty-seven years overdue. Forty-seven years is a long time. For a sense of scale, ask yourself just how dead… Read more »
When should you face jail time for overdue library books?
One of the most reliable bookish forms of non-news is the “library book finally returned…50 years late!” story. Like all space-filler human interest pieces, these stories don’t do anything beyond, to… Read more »
Finding a “message in a bottle” in Google book scans
We’ve written about when book scanners go wrong on this blog, and we’ve also covered the controversy and lawsuits over Google’s decision to scan books. But somewhere in the midst… Read more »