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Amazon Editors' Picks for 2009 — Amazon.com has released its editors’ picks for the 100 best books of 2009.

Prep School Library Drops Books in Favor of Kindles — Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, Massachusetts (not far from where I grew

Big Copyright's History of Anti-Innovation — Ars Technica has an interesting account of the movie studios, music companies, and

The Material Culture of Mad Men — Via Steve Lubar, an intriguing interview with the prop master of Mad Men, a

Open Access to AHA Directory Until End of October — The American Historical Association’s (AHA) Directory of History Departments and

The Great Museum WC — Maybe not the most important room in the museum, but among the most essential: Okay, you

Dan Brown Gets Smithsonian History Right and Wrong in "The Lost Symbol" — Smithsonian Magazine’s Around the Mall

BBC and Neil Gaiman Launch Collaborative Storytelling Experiment on Twitter — This week the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) teamed up with

ArchivesNext on Modes of Social Media Interaction — Kate Theimer at ArchivesNext has an excellent post detailing four approaches archives and

DSpace Reaches 700 Instances Worldwide — The DuraSpace blog is reporting that there are now more than 700 instances of DSpace.