• My Morning Jacket has a song about sexy librarians: “ramble up the stairwell, into the hall of books / since we got the interweb these hardly get used.” I like this album, save for a few ridiculous jam band moments.
  • I think I have a new favorite blog: bookn3rd. Unlike yours truly (who jetted for Athens at the first sign a Calc III requirement for the “English for Engineers” major … and a boy), bookn3rd finished the history of technology program at Georgia Tech. Great content plus an awesome blog design and she’s headed to London. Could this have been my life after Calc III?
  • Speaking of destroying (and recycling) books: Turning the Page on the Disposable Book (The WaPo). “Amazingly, authors rarely ask what happens to their unsold books; perhaps they don’t want to know. What seems abundantly true to me, however, after almost 20 years in the publishing business, is that an increasing number of their books will be — and should be — mulched. We are living in the age of the disposable book.”
  • Send books to Iraq. I usually don’t read anything that sweaty monster Christopher Hitchens writes, but I’m going to figure out how to get my library to send materials from our current journal and monograph de-dupping project to the start-up library at the The American University of Iraq—Sulaimani.