(09:20 pm) Bleg

     As I'm sure many of you know Banned Book Week is coming up at the end of the month. I think its only right that we celebrate it properly by coming up with a list of books that should be banned.

     Now let's clarify. There is no censorship in this country. Just because schools and public libraries don't have it doesn't make it unavailable. We're not going to go bookstore to bookstore rounding up books. So when I say 'banned' I mean books that no public library or school library should waste money or shelf space on. What books should any honest librarian just say no to, no matter how many requests for it? Is it depraved? false? useless? What? There are hundreds of books published each year. Most aren't worth the paper they're printed on. Which ones are worth less then even that?

     I have a few in mind but I'd like to get some input before they get posted. Any help would be appreciated.

Monday September 5, 2005

  (10:16 pm) Hi

     Where have I been?

     Well, I had three get togethers with friends and one small outing on my own. In two weeks time that's something of a record for me. Hey, Summer's pretty much over might as well enjoy.

     I've also had a couple ongoing library projects eating up energy. I actually considered starting a separate work-related blog to talk about that stuff but I'm not sure there's a safe way to do that at this point. It would have to be Anon and I pretty much blew that simply by mentioning here. Now I don't have to do it. Ha!

     Then there's Katrina, which I've followed some but not too much. Whenever I do I get so PO'd its hard to be productive. I've deleted at least 3 emails this week that were snarky or nasty and basically worthless. There's nothing I can do about it. I donated money, other then that I'll stay out of the way. I will point out that a couple ALA Councilors have been saying Bush wasn't doing his job in emails to ALACOUN and SRRT. Considering its not his job to dictate how each state responds to a problem, those Councilors might want to consider the list of actual library issues ALA has failed or fallen short on. He did what he had to do when he had to do it. Would that ALA did the same on occasion.

     Anyway. I've also been wasting what time was left on Sudokus. A friend told me about these and they are a great way to waste some time when you'd really just don't want to read one more website, or your running a virus scan, or you'd just rather not be thinking. Here's a great site for free ones. Here's one that has a computer game. And if you go to this one and click on the 'Solving Sudoku Document' on the right it will open a pdf that gives a detailed lesson on Sudoku strategy. Enjoy.

     I was sitting down to type stuff yesterday when I went to a forum and found out about Rehnquist. Makes you tired just thinking about it doesn't it? I almost got mad at him for dying right now. CSPAN played an interview with him last night from 2001 about a book he wrote. First time I had ever heard him speak was after he was dead. Sad on my part. I have at least heard Gonzales and Stevens and O'Connor thanks all to CSPAN. Its a pity we couldn't listen to their much deeper debates then what is normally on TV but then they'd just wind up being dragged down with the rest of us. And at this point I'm rambling so prayers for Rehnquists' family and for everyone Katrina hit.

Night.