LITA’s tenth year of Top Tech Trends July 12 was likely its best attended ever–thanks to free wi-fi in the room, live streaming video from Shanachies, and a live blog to aggregate tweets from attendees (real an

To my way of thinking, Tracy Kidder is a famous author—who’s not famous enough. I haven’t read all his books (and I do intend to), but House remains for me the right book at the right time. In 1985, this true story of the construction of a home in Massachusetts hit me just as I had beome a homeowner, and Kidder’s descriptions of the evolution of the design, the negotiations with builders, the groundbreaking, and the roof-raising really hit home, so to speak. But what really got to me was that it was all focused on the human aspirations and struggles behind the project.

Some 525 librarians and library supporters—a virtual who’s who of librarianship—spent yesterday evening in the new wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, entralled by its splendor and by the speakers who gathered to help the Freedom to Read Foundation celebrate its 40th anniversary and pay tribute to its founder, Judith Krug, who died April 11.