A Night With Alexander and Sarah!

Words Worth is hosting their last author event of the year with Alexander MacLeod and Sarah Selecky. Both authors were on the Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist for their books, Light Lifting and This Cake Is For The Party.  As always, this will be a great night and not to be missed!

When Is A Library, Not A Library?

When it's a chocolate shop!

The Perfect Christmas Present

Here is my gift to all the 'kids' out there who have parents who are slightly less than computer literate... http://www.teachparentstech.org/

Happy Birthday Melvil

159th...that's old...

The Hipster Librarian

Funny stuff from Linda Ueki Absher, the Lipstick Librarian.

Kat Von D @ Chapters

Not too long ago, Diane and I from Library Services went to a Kat Von D book signing at Chapters for her new book, The Tattoo Chronicles. (aka a journal of tattoo photographs, client interpretations of said tattoos, and details of Kat's personal life) Amazingly enough, somehow we ended up getting a shoutout on The Savvy Reader blog...I guess we must have stood out! Kat Von D is an amazing artist, and an interesting, captivating author...I highly recommend her book!

Check it out here!

The Smithsonian Under Fire

Should the Smithsonian censor its Gay Portraiture Exhibit?

New Stonewall Award for Childrens Books

The American Library Association announced that it has added another prize to its Stonewall Book Awards and will recognize an English-language children's book "of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered experience".

Man killed in a Toronto Public Library

A man was killed with a crossbow in a busy Toronto Public Library branch.

Library Apps

I came across this post while wandering through WordPress yesterday.  It's all the library/book/reading related apps you could ever want to twitter on about...

Teen Reads

Some of the best YA books, not about vampires, from the past year.