Browsing the stacks is one of my most cherished activities.  Before you say, “Get a life!,” let me say that I developed this habit in undergraduate school.  The stacks were warm and smelled of old books.  I was at home there.  The inability to browse online was the topic of discussion one day at Rosenthal Library.  You just can’t pick up a volume of encyclopedia online and flip through it until  you find something of interest and then browse the articles surrounding it.  There is something to browsing the stacks until you find an interesting book, a red cover, or an oddly titled book that just might be the one that has just what you need to develop that idea you have been wanting to develop.

Recently, while roaming around the library, I browsed the new book section at Rosenthal and found two interesting books:

1. True Stories of Censorship Battles in American Libraries, editied by Valerie Nye and Kathy Barco and

2. Building Library 3.0: Issues in creating a culture of participation by Woody Evans.

They both address issues in librarianship today. I am curious to learn what they have to say. No annotations until I read them, though.