Columns
- Aug 30, 2010 : The Competition Intensifies
- Jul 28, 2010 : Unnecessary Choices
- May 14, 2010 : Rolling with the Punches
- Apr 20, 2010 : Tell Us a Story
- Mar 31, 2010 : Testing the Times
- Aug 2, 2010 : Who’s in Charge Here?
- Jul 6, 2010 : I'm Sorry, You're Out
- Apr 20, 2010 : The Biggest Front Porch
- Mar 15, 2010 : Mirabile Visu
- Feb 12, 2010 : Whither Wikipedia?
Librarian’s Library
Booklist Online Managing Editor Mary Ellen Quinn reviews the latest LIS literature
- Aug 30, 2010 : New from ALA: September 2010
- Aug 23, 2010 : Regional Reading Places
- Aug 9, 2010 : The First First Library
- Jul 26, 2010 : New from ALA
- Jul 12, 2010 : Advising Tweens
Rousing Reads
Booklist Publisher Bill Ott reviews new and forthcoming titles and looks back on old favorites.
- Aug 26, 2010 : Happy Birthday, Dutch
- Jul 20, 2010 : Frankie Catches a Break
- May 17, 2010 : Hidden Treasures
- Apr 15, 2010 : Alan Furst
- Feb 12, 2010 : Discoveries
Dispatches from the Field
Librarianship’s tech-savviest writers share their views on technology trends.
- Aug 23, 2010 : Measuring E-Resource Use: Standards and Practice for Counting Remote Users
- Jul 15, 2010 : Hope, Hype, and VoIP: Riding the Library Technology Cycle
- May 27, 2010 : Aggregating Web Resources
- Apr 15, 2010 : Gadgets and Gizmos
- Mar 11, 2010 : Planning for a Mobile Site
- Aug 16, 2010 : The Customer's Always Right
- Jun 21, 2010 : Unquiet Library Has High-Schoolers Geeked
- Jun 10, 2010 : Social Eyes
- Apr 16, 2010 : Weeding Grows the Garden
- Mar 8, 2010 : Risk, Failure, and Yield
- Aug 9, 2010 : It's Not Monkey Business
- Jul 8, 2010 : What Came Home from D.C.
- May 27, 2010 : My Artful Diversion
- Apr 20, 2010 : Chalkboard Heroine
- Mar 9, 2010 : The Pixelated Campus
- Aug 12, 2010 : In Their Own Words
- Jun 23, 2010 : Advancing Advocacy
- Oct 23, 2009 : Advocacy: Part II
- Sep 23, 2009 : Spectrum’s $1-Million Challenge
- Jul 23, 2009 : Once in a Lifetime
- Aug 31, 2010 : Why Librarianship Endures
- Jul 26, 2010 : Surveying My Sex Appeal
- May 6, 2010 : Winning the Budget Wars
- Apr 19, 2010 : Quirkiness "R" Us
- Mar 3, 2010 : My Favorite Medium
- Aug 19, 2010 : Your Reality, Augmented
- Jul 22, 2010 : Guided by Barcodes
- May 13, 2010 : A Library in Your Pocket
- Apr 20, 2010 : Dipping into the Stream
- Mar 8, 2010 : Finding Your Voice
On My Mind
On My Mind presents diverse voices opining on issues surrounding libraries.
- Aug 9, 2010 : A Bookworm By Any Other Name
- Jul 12, 2010 : Signage: Better None Than Bad
- May 14, 2010 : A Passion for Copyright
- Apr 20, 2010 : Let’s Review Everything
- Mar 17, 2010 : Our Conservative Ideals
- Aug 20, 2010 : Charles Ogletree on Race, Reading, and the Presumption of Guilt
- Aug 4, 2010 : That Girl Loves Libraries: An Interview with Marlo Thomas
- Jul 16, 2010 : The Future of Libraries: Interview with Thomas Frey
- Apr 16, 2010 : Award Winning Author Katherine Paterson Is Ambassador for Children's Reading
- Mar 31, 2010 : Nobel Prize Winner Al Gore on the Environment and the Eternal Role of Libraries
Current Issue
How the World Sees Us

I don’t understand why people would work so intensely in a noisy environment. My mother said people work best in a quiet place, free of distractions. One day I told a table of industrious students, ‘I have to ask you not to use your computers so that others can sit. I pointed to a big sign that...

—GUS RANCATORE, co-founder of the coffee house Toscanini’s in Cambridge Massachusetts, on studious customers who overstay their welcome, “Those Dastardly Coffee Campers,” Atlantic, Sept. 1, 2010.
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