The blog Alternative Teen Services offers a couple of examples and general decrying of this trend. Two examples, apparently using the same stock photo:

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from Newsweek (page 13 of the June 4, 2007, issue or here):My Five Most Important Books ( Read more... )

A short educational feature from your friendly local Library Ninja.

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Unshelvedshows yet again why it is deserving of a wider readership than just librarians. The Sunday Book Club (or, in librarianspeak, booktalking) episodes should be of interest to readers everywhere, and especially SF fans since a large percentage of the books reviewed are science fiction or fantasy ( Read more... )

In W.P. Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe, one of the characters (left out of the movie Field of Dreams) was The Oldest Living Cub.

Sunday's Post-Gazette has an article about The Oldest Living Pirate. Actually, now, Dr. Howard Hoffman "Howdy" Groskloss is the oldest living MLB veteran of any team -- and he turns 100 today! He played for the Bucs from ( Read more... )

via brashley46Book Meme (with the following Rules ( Read more... )

By seinte Loy, everyoune ys gettynge ynto ye acte! -- & allso an LJ syndicatioun feede, chaucerhathblog. (Thanks, daegaer.)

He hath also a bobblehead doll! (Picture here; scroll down, it's the bottom section. Sorry, I can't find a better one.) I meant to mention it before. Our library got an ad from the reference-book publisher Greenwood Press about a month ago. As ( Read more... )