Library Friends and Foundations: Time for a Merged Model? — In today's world of declining public funding of libraries, should Friends groups be reorganized as foundations whose main purpose is major fundraising? (Public Library Association National Conference 2008)
Library Thing — An online service to help people catalog their books easily. Because everyone catalogs together, Library Thing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth.
The Big Read — An initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts to restore reading to the center of American culture.
The Library War on Paper — A review of Nicholson Baker's "Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper." (2001)