Books on Issues Reviewed
Active Liberty by Stephen Breyer
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic by John de Graff
Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy by Alfred W. Crosby
Immigrant Class: Oral Histories from Chicago's Newest Immigrants by Jeff Libman
Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel
Peace is the Way by Deepak Chopra
The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler
Commentary from ricklibrarian
Amazon as a Model for Open WorldCat
Examples of Corporate Thinking: A Danger to Libraries
Immigrants Are...: Posters at the Immigrants' Rights March in Chicago
Librarians Should Support Hotel Housekeepers
Making Things Last at Home and at the Library
Metro News from the Metropolitan Library System Hidden from the World at Large
Open WorldCat for Rural America
Pinstripes Invading Blogosphere: Commercial Blogs, Exec's Journals Raise Suspicion by Greg Burns
Should A Million Little Pieces Be Moved to Fiction?
A Simpler, Acrimony-Free Defintion of "Women's Fiction"
Teens Unclear, Uncommitted to First Amendment Rights
Thoughts on the American Library Association Annual Conference (2005)