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• Inside Higher Ed – Bookshelf and Self – What does your bookshelf say about you? Is it a reflection of who you are, or who you’d like to be?
• Borrowed Time – Architects discuss the future of libraries as public spaces. One critic thinks that libraries as we currently know them, e.g., depositories for printed materials, will disappear by 2019.
• CJR: WaPo Says Wii – Should a paper whose profits slipped 13% in 4Q 2007 really be putting in a game room?
• Electronista: T-Mobile to enter Canadian 700MHz auction? – Stop yanking our chains, T-Mobile (although, if this were to happen, I’d be a happy cell phone customer).
• Ryan Brenizer’s Amazon Blog: Photography tip: Shooting for Photobooks Permalink – Excellent tips for anyone considering putting together and printing a photo book. I gave photo books as presents last Christmas, and I’ll definitely be using these tips for the next book.
• The Austin Chronicle – Screens: Leaping Into SXSW Interactive – It’s almost that time of year! What panels will you hit at SXSW? Equally important, which parties will you attend after the day’s panels are done?

As long as the province of Alberta exists, Canada will always have to hedge, hem, and haw when it comes to their perception as the most liberal and tolerant country on the North American continent. I’d been reading a bit about how the Catholic League has called for a boycott of the movie adaptation of The Golden Compass, but this is the first I’ve heard about the books being removed from libraries.

I want to hope that all of this negative press will only benefit the movie in the end. I want to believe that enough people have had enough of the Catholic League, their scare tactics, and the act of censorship as a whole that despite the (lukewarm) early reviews, people will see the film anyway, give it a great opening weekend, and support it enough so that the other two books in the series will see their film adaptations come to light.