The Alexandrian Public Library (Mount Vernon, IN) posted a note a couple of weeks ago about Nora Roberts. They pointed to a USA Today story that said that Origin in Death, in the series of mysteries which she publishes as J. D. Robb, is her 159th title. It includes the yummy fact that an average of 21 of her books are sold every minute. Certainly she is now at the top of Santa Fe Public Library's most popular authors list--last year she circulated better than the Berenstain Bears.
Hennepin County Public Library (MN) posted a list of what their staff is reading, with mini-reviews. (Terrific idea. We'll see if we can extract a similar list from our own staff.) They have a really nice "Find a Good Book" page.
Recent postings at h20boro lib blog (Waterboro, ME) include links to a profile of poet Stanley Kunitz, who just turned 100; and to the Invisible Library, a website about books that only appear in other books (including The Book of Counted Sorrows, from which Dean Koontz pretends to take his epigraphs.) Most of the postings on this blog tend to be literary, but there is the occasional gem like a link to the BLM's Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website (worth visiting just for the lucious photo at the top of the web page.)
St Joseph County (IN) Public Library's Lifeline gives us an early glimpse of some contenders for the 2006 Newbery award, and a list of current non-fiction bestsellers to use as beach reading.
Sites & Soundbytes at Caestecker Public Library (WI) has a link to the Official M. C. Escher Website, to the Map Collections 1500-2004 page at Library of Congress, and to a lot of other really interesting websites.
Some of the other library blogs we sometimes follow include Redwood City (CA), Thomas Ford Memorial Library (IL), Buena Park Library District (CA), Lincoln County (OR), Marin County Free Library (CA), and La Grange Park (IL). It's interesting to see what other libraries, and other library bloggers, are doing.
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