Authors, Books, and the Librarians Who Love Them....

AUTHORS:
Red Room, social networking for authors and readers....
Jon Sciesczka, famous for funny children's literature like The Stinky Cheese Man, is named the first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. He will be "evangelizing for reading"...
Edgar Allan Poe and I share a birthday on Saturday. Party at your house this year, Ed.

BOOKS:
Late Library Books Take a Toll on Your Credit Score
2008 Great Graphic Novels for Teens..
Building Your Vacation Home Library...
A Bookworm's Holiday...
Put Your Books Up Into the Rafters...
Twenty Reasons to Read in the Bathroom...
Here's one of them: Reading Makes You More Smarter...
That book bound in human skin sold for 5,400 pounds at auction...

LIBRARIANS:
Miss the recent American Library Association meetings? Catch up with ALA Wikis...
The Librarian's Trivia ScreenSaver from Elsevier...
Dorothy Porter Wesley, prominent African-American librarian
The Lipstick Librarian points to some funny library background wedding photos... dig a little deeper and enjoy the whole Olan Mills collection
Also from the Lipstick Librarian, Captain Kirk wishes he were a librarian...
The Online Librarian Paper Doll... a little risque but fun


Don't blame me if you don't get any work done today!