The Librarian's Lounge

Pass it on: Win a free copy of "An Incovenient Truth"

If you are a teacher in the U.S. and would like a copy of Al Gore's documentary, register here to win one of 50,000 copies being given away by Participate.net. Contest ends January 17th.

Another series of tubes

An article from New Scientist discusses putting a digital library on the moon.

Hollow lava tubes on the Moon could be used as a giant digital library. That's one commercial possibility for the Moon put forth in a white paper by a NASA scientist.

Global Warming

I highly recommend everyone gets out to see Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, stat! Gore does a stellar job of making this crisis understandable for the layman and presents the evidence in a way that leaves no room for doubt. This is a very important film - don't miss it.

The images of how glaciers worldwide have melted during the last few decades were particularly startling and hard to dismiss - you can see more of them at the Online Glacier Photograph Database. As for the polar bears, the news just keeps getting grimmer.