Well my friends, this week flew by…hope it was good for you guys too. Any plans for the weekend? Any fab #fridayreads you want to share? Any travel plans in the works? Let me live vicariously through your vacations! Enjoy the weekend!
* alscblog Great advocacy piece in LJ about the future of children's library services http://ow.ly/5BwZI #kidlit
* LesaHolstine Reviewed S.J. Watson's powerful debut thriller, Before I Go to Sleep (HarperCollins), http://bit.ly/oOy2wX
* LibraryJournal Let the Best Books selection process begin: witness the start of a 5-month process at today's Book Review staff meeting http://ow.ly/5BPXg
* HarperCollins Daniel Silva: Behind the Gabriel Allon Series! http://ow.ly/5CBuE @DanielSilvaBook
* earlyword Don't forget; next month we are back to first Tues, Aug 2nd (my b'day — how appropriate!) I'll be tweeting with a glass of bubbly. #ewgc
* christhebookie Interesting. How One Library Saved $130,390: http://bit.ly/r6x1ET via @AddThis
* PublishersWkly Bound to get a lot of attention – Bill Keller in NYT mag: Let’s Ban Books, or at Least Stop Writing Them http://nyti.ms/qy6gdp
* ALALibrary RT @MLAoffice: Gov Snyder has signed off on 7.7 million in #library funding for FY12. Huge victory for libraries and citizens of Michigan!!
* ALALibrary IFLA Paper: “‘What & Why Libraries?’ …. Now and Into the Future” « INFOdocket http://ow.ly/5DOao
* BarbaraAGenco Finding the Future: Inside NYPL's All-Night Scavenger Hunt | Cover Story http://ow.ly/5F0pC
-Annie