It's always a bull market for this silly willy nilly old bear!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investors-put-money-into-more-tangible-assets-art-wine-winnie-the-pooh/2012/07/09/gJQAP6Z1cW_story.html

Patrick Henry

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed. Patrick Henry

Come down and dance, little book!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhRT-PM7vpA&feature=youtu.be

Joke

Where do books eat dinner?

At the table of contents.

New Library in Florida School

http://www.nbcmiami.com/video/#!/news/local/New-Library-Unveiled/133270328

Wells Memorial Library needs your help!

http://www.katemessner.com/after-irene-a-small-town-adirondack-library-needs-your-help/

Wells Memorial Library in New York was devastated by Hurricane Irene. Here is how you can help.

Sit in a room and read—and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”—Joseph Campbell

(Thank you to Debra Eisert for this quote).

Disclaimer

I would like to know what conversation prompted this disclaimer in the front of a book in our library:

"This Book is manufactured in compliance with no known regulations, from materials which happened to be at hand; printed - in some cases not too well - from hand and machine-set types by letter-press and offset".

From the book "Stout and Allied Families" 2nd ed. by Herald F. Stout.

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” Sir Richard Steele

Kansas City Public Library Parking Garage

This is so cool! I am REALLY covetous!
I found out about this parking garage on an episode of Jeopardy! that had a picture of the parking garage as a clue for Kansas City.
http://www.kclibrary.org/?q=community-bookshelf

Night Bookmobile

Night Bookmobile
by
Audrey Niffenegger
graphic novel

*For mature audiences*.

Follow Lexi in her creepy, haunting love affair with books and reading. The author says that this book was based upon some dreams she has had of books, reading, and bookmobiles.
As I read it, I was thinking "I would like THIS page to hang on my wall. No. How about THIS page! I could see a librarian decorating her cubicle or maybe her home bathroom walls with the pages of this book. It is a book for book lovers.

Here is the plot: Lexi loves books. She encounters the Night Bookmobile one night in her dreams (or maybe in reality). The bookmobile holds all of the books and papers and newspapers and magazines and school papers and cereal boxes that she has ever read. Oh, the delight of reading! Oh, the delight of remembering a good book!
I won't tell you more because I don't want to ruin the ending, but this book is a feast.

This is a good gift book and coffee table book for a librarian, teacher, English teacher, writer, etc.

Don't be surprised if your friends and family start calling you "Mr. Openshaw" in honor of the bookmobile librarian.

I hope I can get a sweatshirt or something with one of the pictures from the book on it.

New Art from Old Books

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7366166n

Atlanta artist Brian Dettmer creates memorable works of art by slicing, whittling and tearing into books. Mark Strassmann reports on Dettmer's vision for a vanishing form of art.

http://briandettmer.com/

How to explain Internet-era reading to someone from the analog past? Put lots of little books in a much bigger book.
http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/05/designing-a-19th-century-kindle-an-e-reader-for-dickens/238884/

Foster a love of reading

http://www.daytondailynews.com/lifestyle/ohio-health-news/how-to-foster-a-love-for-reading-at-a-very-young-age-1094658.html

Dream Book Nook

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1LpKM8/9gag.com/gag/85637/

A place to dream...

No. This is not my house, but we can all wish and hope and read!

Dying for a book

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

P. J. O'Rourke

Treasure in Books

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
---Walt Disney
(Thank you to Paula Dale for this quote).

Growing up With Books Boosts Child's Education Attainment

Growing up With Books Boosts Child's Education Attainment
http://www.livescience.com/culture/books-education-children-100521.html

Children who grow up in households where books are plentiful go further in school than those without books, a new study finds.
This book benefit was seen across countries, and held regardless of the parent's educational background, the country's Gross Domestic Product, father's occupation or the political system of the country, the researchers say.
The results, based on data from 73,249 people living in 27 countries, including the United States, show that having a 500-book library boosted a child's education by 3.2 years on average.
"You get a lot of 'bang for your book,'" said study researcher Mariah Evans, a sociologist at the University of Nevada, Reno. "It's quite a good return-on-investment in a time of scarce resources."
For instance, a child born into a family that had only 1 book but was otherwise average in parents' education, father's occupation, GDP, and similar variables, would expect to get 9.4 years of education themselves. Another person from an otherwise identical family with 500 books would expect to get 12.6 years of education (a senior in high school has 12 years of education), the results showed.
For years, educators have thought the strongest predictor of attaining high levels of education was having parents who were highly educated. But according to the findings, a good-sized book library is just as good as university-educated parents in terms of increasing education level.
"Even a little bit goes a long way," in terms of the number of books in a home, Evans said. Having as few as 20 books in the home still has a significant impact on propelling a child to a higher level of education, and the more books add, the greater the benefit.
In some countries, such as China, having 500 or more books in the home propels children 6.6 years further in their education. In the United States, the effect is less, 2.4 years. But, Evans points out that 2.4 years is still a significant advantage in terms of educational attainment.
For example, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey, Americans who have some college or an associate's degree, but not a bachelor's degree, earn an average of $7,213 more annually than those with just a high school education. Those who attain a bachelor's degree earn $21,185 more each year, on average, than those with just high school diplomas.
Having books in the home is twice as important as the father's education level, and more important than whether a child was reared in China or the United States.
The results are published online in the journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.

Big Read Book Discussion Titles

2008 Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
2007 Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
2006 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2005 Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Links to Annual Book Discussion Sites:
www.bigread.org
http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/one-book.html

My Favorite Book Titles

portrait of Jonathan Swift

My Favorite Book Titles

I haven't read all of these, but I think they have great wording. Actually I have only read one of them- the Jonathan Swift essay.

Flapdoodle Trust and Obey by Virginia Cary Hudson
The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup by Susan Orlean
Carriages and Clocks, Corsets and Locks: The Rise and Fall of an Industrial City - New Haven, Connecticut by Preston Maynard and Marjorie Noyes
Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland, from Being a Burden on their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the P ublick by Dr. Jonathan Swift