[Publib] This Week on Best of Publib

[Robert Balliot]

Best of Publib Current Topics and Tag List

This week in Best of Publib includes some interesting discussions on the
profitability of book sales and nuances of weeding along with some
interesting revelations about Amazon and Kindle. Topics we will be reviewing
include:

   - Non-resident fees
   - Amazon and Kindle - the disappearance of
1984<http://www.librarything.com/work/1472>
   - H1N1 - don't call it pig flu!
   - CCTV and who is watching the watchers

Phalbe Henriksen - library director from the great state of North Carolina -
has also notified us of her new Hurricane Hints blog :  Hurricane
Hints<http://hurricanehints.blogspot.com/>

Elisa Babel Adult Librarian at  the Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Library
in DC - has joined BestofPublib as a contributing editor.

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