I'm hoping one of the many other librarians on AskMefi can help me track down a resource I'm looking for. It was a semi-annual publication with descriptions of upcoming books--usually there was one published seasonally (and/or in time for ALA), plus various special issues. [more inside]
posted on Aug 20, 2007 - 2 answers

I need to know which book-related web service/API is best (most complete archive, most up-to-date, most metadata) for looking up information about books given an ISBN-10 or ISBN-13. [more inside]
posted on Apr 17, 2007 - 10 answers

Help identifying a specific photographer who photographs libraries? I think she's female and may be German. I do have one of her photos... [more inside]
posted on Oct 16, 2006 - 8 answers

Do you lend your tools? Or books? If so, what tricks do you use to get them back? [more inside]
posted on Sep 5, 2005 - 33 answers

Why do bookstores and libraries make me poop? [more inside]
posted on Jun 6, 2005 - 58 answers

In regards to this sentence from a recent press release about the Google library scanning: As it does with new books already included in its search engine, Google will only allow its users to view the bibliographies or other snippets of copyrighted books scanned from the libraries. --- Question: Are bibliographies not copyrighted?
posted on Dec 15, 2004 - 9 answers