April Fool’s Retrospective

-- Library Journal, 04/03/2006

If you missed LJ’s April Fool’s, you can still check it out.

April Fool’s, 2006
Library 22.0 Totally Automated

Features

Library 22.0: Totally Automated

The top librarian for Library 22.0 has gone through distance programming and never clanked a foot on campus. True, it might be a robot, but it is a whiz at SuprGlu...

Oklahomophobic? Sorting Out the Gay Books Controversy

After debating plans to segregate “gay-themed” books in state public libraries, the Oklahoma legislature has announced that it has commissioned a report on “gay books” in the state. Among the report’s aims: to ascertain if “books become gay on the shelf, or...

Downloadable Détente?

Apple agrees to make the iPod compatible with library audiobook lending, but only for libraries that shuck Gates Foundation support and convert all PCs to Macs. One library director explains how he’s made it work.

Collection Development: Porn

News

• Oprah Hires James Frey To Write Her Biography
• Cheney Shoots “Radical, Militant” Librarian
• ALISE Proposes Scholarships for Top Teen Gamers
• Stanford Cancels Encyclopedias, Embraces Wikipedia
• ULC, LAMA To Lease Yacht for Summits
• Castro To Visit ALA Offices
• Google in Landmark Deal To Trademark Alphabet
• Billington, LeClerc, Others Given Honorary Degrees
• New Push for ALA Attendance in New Orleans: Free Booze, Beads, Beignets

InfoTech

• ALA Dumps Web Site, Enables Wiki

Reviews

• Satanic Parenting: An A-to-Z Guide
• A Million Little Pieces of Cake: The Oprah Winfrey Story

Editors' Pick

I Am a Fashion God

Brown, Michael, with Anna Wintour. R&R. Jun. 2006. NF
The ex-FEMA director dispenses fashion dos and don’ts for your next hurricane.

NextGen

• Breaking Down Netspeak
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LJ Talks to

• … Another John Berry