The Movers' Media Diet

When Lisa Von Drasek (p. 12) showed up for the photo shoot for Movers & Shakers, she suggested we poll Movers about what they're reading. Her own picks included Edward Tulane's Miraculous Journey, Calvin Trillin's About Alice, and Chip Wood's Yardsticks. As we gathered other Movers' responses, the list quickly expanded to include a full range of media. Here's just a taste of what they are consuming for their personal and professional pleasure.

• Invincible by Robert Kirkman
• Sharknife by Corey Lewis
• Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore

LORELY AMBRIZ

• Googlepedia: The Ultimate Google Resource by Michael Miller
• Windows Vista (The Missing Manual) by David Pogue
• Virtual Health Library (www.virtualhealthlibrary.org)

SUSAN BENZ

• Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart.
• The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart

CASEY BISSON

• The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin.
• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson
• The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization by Tom Kelly & Jonathan Littman
• Two Ton: One Night, One Fight—Tony Galento v. Joe Louis by Joe Monninger.

HELENE BLOWERS

• Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide by Henry Jenkins
• Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas by Seth Godin
• Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger

RICHARD BRAY

• Democracy Now (podcast—www.democracynow.org—or radio/TV show)
• The Writer’s Almanac (web site or podcast: writersalmanac.publicradio.org)
• Why Survive: Being Old in America by Robert N. Butler

ROBIN BRENNER

• After School Nightmare by Setona Mizushiro (manga)
• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson
• Gankutsuon (anime TV show)

RACHEL BRIDGEWATER

• The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler
• The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
• The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

MICHAEL CASEY

• The Catcher In the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• The World According to Garp by John Irving
• Annie Hall (film)

ANITA COLEMAN

• Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration by Warren Bennis & Patricia Ward Biederman
• The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity by Amartya Sen
• Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects by Neil Jacobs

ROBERT CULLIN

• Tame the Web (blog: www.tametheweb.com)
• The Indie Librarian (blog: indielibrarian.blogspot.com)
• Stephen’s Lighthouse (blog: stephenslighthouse.sirsi.com)

KELLY CZARNECKI

• The Tao of Leadership: Leadership Strategies for a New Age by John Heider
• Amélie (film)
• Second Life (www.secondlife.com)

MICHELLE DALMAU

• Library Hi Tech (scholarly journal)
• Inquiring Librarian (blog: inquiringlibrarian.blogspot.com)
• ACM Digital Library (portal.acm.org/dl.cfm)

JAYNE DAMRON

• Read It! Play It! with Babies and Toddlers by Joanne Oppenheim and Stephanie Oppenheim
• Michigan 4C Association Community Coordinated Child Care (www.mi4c.org)
• LibraryThing (www.librarything.com)

LINDA DEVLIN

• Fast Company (magazine)
• Developing the Leader Within You by John C. Maxwell
• Lessons from the Nordstrom Way: How Companies Are Emulating the #1 Customer Service Company by Robert Spector

NICOLE ENGARD

• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson
• Tame the Web (blog: www.tametheweb.com)
• The Visible Librarian: Asserting Your Value with Marketing and Advocacy by Judith A. Siess

AMANDA ETCHES-JOHNSON

• Library 2.0: An Academic’s Perspective (blog: liblogs.albany.edu/library20)
• The Ubiquitous Librarian (blog: theubiquitouslibrarian.typepad.com)
• Boxes & Arrows (www.boxesandarrows.com)

BETH EVANS

• National Public Radio
• This American Life (radio show—www.thislife.org—podcase and TV show)
• Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! (radio show)

LOIDA GARCÍA-FEBO

• The Other Face of America: Chronicles of the Immigrants Shaping Our Future by Jorge Ramos
• The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

BETH GOLDSMITH

• Open Archives Initiatice Object Reuse and Exchange (www.openarchives.org/ore)
• Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg
• A Handmade Wilderness by Donald G. Schueler

JILL GROGG

• The Resource Shelf (www.resourceshelf.com)
• Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog (orweblog.oclc.org)
• Current Cites (lists.webjunction.org/currentcites)

JANIE HERMANN

• Telling Ain't Training by Harold Stolovitch
• What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self edited by Ellyn Spragins
• Digging to America by Anne Tyler

CHRYSTIE HILL

• John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
• Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell

DUSTIN HOLLAND

• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• Seth Goldin (author—http://www.sethgodin.com)

MELISSA JOHNSTON

• True Adventures of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
• The Dark Hills Divide by Patrick Carman
• Cat in the Hat by Dr. Suess

LESLIE JONES

• TEDTalks (podcast: www.ted.com/tedtalks)
• Buying and Contracting for Resources and Services by Rick Anderson
• The Other End of the Leash by Patricia B. McConnell

DENISE KOUFOGIANNAKIS

• The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship by John Willinsky
• Libraries Using Evidence (eblip.net.au)
• libraryassessment.info (www.libraryassessment.info)

JENNY LAPERRIERE

• The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary into Extraordinary by Joseph Michelli
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

GREGORY LUM

• The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
• The Trap by John Smelcer

EMILY LYNEMA

• Planet Code4Lib (planet.code4lib.org)

JULIE MASTERSON-SMITH

• Smart Dog by Vivian Vande Velde
• The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research by Stephen Krashen
• LM_Net (elementary librarian's listserv: www.eduref.org/lm_net)

BRIAN MATHEWS

• The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage by B. Joseph Pine & James H. Gilmore
• Experiential Marketing: How to Get Customers to Sense, Feel, Think, Act, Relate by Bernd H. Schmitt
• The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do by Clotaire Rapaille

GINA MILLSAP

• Jane Austen Mysteries by Stephanie Barron
• vampire fiction

SHARON MORRIS

• O (magazine)
• Rich Woman: A Book on Investing for Women - Because I Hate Being Told What to Do! by Kim Kiyosaki
• Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind by Joyce Meyer

NADIA NASR

• Pacific Northwest Olympic Peninsula Community Museum (content.lib.washington.edu/cmpweb/index.html)
• Western Maryland's Historical Library (www.whilbr.org)
• Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive (www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/index.html)

CAROLYN NEAL

• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
• Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime by J. California Cooper

LARRY NEAL

• A Good Year by Peter Mayle
• Google Gadgets (www.google.com/webmasters/gadgets)
• Overdue Media (www.overduemedia.com)

KATHERINE O'CLAIR

• Google Scholar (scholar.google.com)
• Web of Science (database: scientific.thomson.com/products/wos)
• WorldCat (www.worldcat.com)
• People (magazine)
• Medline (via Ovid)
• Atomic Ranch (magazine)

BONNIE PEIRCE

• Steve Garfield's Off on a Tangent (blog: offonatangent.blogspot.com)
• Lessig Blog (blog: www.lessig.org/blog)
• The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler.

EILEEN SIMMONS

• Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell
• Absolute Friends by John Le Carré
• Digging to America by Anne Tyler
• To Be and To Have (French film)
• Heart of the Sea (documentary)
• Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter (film)

ROSS SINGER

• The New Yorker (magazine)
• Planet Code4Lib (planet.code4lib.org)
• “Get Your War On” (comic strip—www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war62.html—book and off-Broadway play)

BILL SLEEMAN

• When Generations Collide: Who They Are. Why They Clash. How to Solve the Generational Puzzle at Work by Lynne Lancaster and David Stillman
• Rethinking How We Provide Bibliographic Services for the University of California by Bibliographic Services Task Force
• Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation by David Price
• On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century by Sherrilyn Ifill

LINDA SLUSAR

• Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey
• The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Steven Covey
• The Shifted Librarian (blog: www.theshiftedlibrarian.com)
• Learn NC (www.learnnc.org/bestweb/keepingup)
• Soaring to Excellence Series (training videos)
• Your Life Work: The Librarian (YouTube video)

SHAWNA THORUP

• Creating Policies for Results: From Chaos to Clarity by Sandra Nelson
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

CATHERINE VANSTONE

• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
• Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon

LISA VON DRASEK

• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Dicamillo & Bagram Ibatoulline
• About Alice by Calvin Trillin
• Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4–14: A Resource for Parents and Teachers by Chip Wood

LARRY WHITE

• Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers: Developing Change-Ready People and Organizations by Robert Kriegel & David Brandt
• Idea Mapping: How to Access Your Hidden Brain Power, Learn Faster, Remember More, and Achieve Success in Business by Jamie Nast
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

PATTY WONG

• Connecting Young Adults and Libraries: A How-to-Do-It Manual For Librarians by Patrick Jones, Michele Gorman, & Tricia Suellentrop
• Child of the Owl: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1965 by Laurence Yep
• Winning by Jack & Suzy Welch

NICOLE COOK and TREVOR DAWES

• Marketing and Managing Electronic Reserves by Trevor A. Dawes
• The Pursuit of Happiness by Chris Gardner (or film)
• Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door by Lynne Truss