Books about books

December 3, 2009

I often think I’d like to read more books about books, but I rarely end up getting on to them as so many great kids and YA books keep coming into the library.
Since I can’t recommend any to you myself, I thought I’d point you at Book Patrol’s top books about books for 2009. Certainly [...]

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Book mobile

December 2, 2009
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Another great artistic way to recycle books. The art is by Lisa Occhipinti, I read about it at Design Nova which was pointed out to me by Vetti (so long ago that she may well have forgotten about it).
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World’s smallest lending library?

December 1, 2009
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The people of Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset, England recently suffered a double blow when their public phone box was decommissioned and the mobile library service ceased to operate.
What were they do do? Surely the answer is obvious. They took ownership of the phone box through BT’s Adopt a Kiosk program and rather than turning into an [...]

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Victoria’s new centre for books, writing, and ideas.

December 1, 2009
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Last year UNESCO named Melbourne a City of Literature. A flow on from that process was the creation of a “centre for books and ideas” which has come into existance as The Wheeler Centre.
Located in the south wing of the State Library of Victoria, the Wheeler Centre will be the new home for a number [...]

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Read a rainbow: arranging books by colour

November 30, 2009

A few years ago I visited the Seattle Public Library and was struck by this display in the children’s library making the most of different coloured spines on the books (photo by Quadelle).
Every now and then I get the urge to run a similar display in my library. I tend to get blank looks or [...]

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PhoneBook

November 26, 2009

I can’t decide whether I love this or hate it.

[via walkingpaper]
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And the two shall become as one

April 2, 2009

Back in ye olde days I started a blog called BookBoy in which I wrote about books I was reading, along with observations about the world of books, reading, and libraries. Then I had a flash of inspiration and started ReadingHacks.com which I thought was a smashing idea. And still do. It would be filled [...]

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Slim Ink book rental

April 1, 2009

Previously on ReadingHacks I wrote about a few book rental services, two from the US, and one, Slim Ink book rental, based here in Australia. Following that post Slim Ink invited me to try out the service for 3 months in order to provide a first hand review of their service.
The process of evaluating the [...]

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