Misc.ellaneo.us....

From the It's All About You Department:

• Stop Googling yourself for a minute and check out Spock, a new people search engine...
• And if that doesn't scare you, search for your public records with Zabasearch...
• In fact, you might want to stop Googling...
  

From the Wake the Kiddies Department:

• Children's Book Blatantly Aimed at the Librarian Market... The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians...
• Talking trash with Junie B. Jones...

From the BiblioNews Department:

• USA Networks plans new show about crime-solving librarian, The Expert...
• Bookends, a new musical about rare book dealers...
• The 2007 Man Booker Longlist.... Somehow overlooked, Keith Richards' memoirs.... okay, not necessarily fiction and not yet published, but still...
• Looking for that certain public domain title for your next blockbuster? Check 1923-1963 copyright renewals here....
• Dewey? Don't he? More on the no-Dewey library...

From the Actually Having Something to Do with Academic Research Department:

• ERIC releases the first 20,000 full-text documents from its recent efforts to secure permissions for materials from 1988 and 1992.
• Ten Steps for Better Research for Students... and a more controversial list, The Top 100 Tools for Learning, aka The List Without Libraries.