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Bacon bookmarks Speaking from experience as a Librarian, we have found people use the oddest things as bookmarks - toilet paper (not used), strips of bacon, and I have been told that a member of staff found a used condom in a book once... :eek: I must say tho. that most books here don't...

I'm up to page 510 and it is becoming a bit of a slog. It could have been condensed quite a bit. I am with Charlotte, trying to stay above all the shag-athon, beer soaked antics of the students of Dupont but at the same time she comes across as a bit of a prig and needs to lighten up a bit...

Yes, I've read it and I do remember it being marketed as such... It did hold a lot of promise - with secret texts to be deciphered and campus murders, but it lead nowhere. It didn't have any great revelations, as the solved puzzle wasn't particularly intriguing and the ending was a damp...

It's a shame that we are getting rid of most of our old books and reserve stocks then, as soon we will have few out of print books left for people to borrow. More and more we rely on borrowing outside - very often we get books from America, as it is cheaper then using the British Library...

Oh Pook! that's me out of the World Cinema clique then... It was a while ago I watched it. I hang my British head in shame.

Yes, we've been doing it for about a year or so. Library User Groups, community groups and general public (including non-users) are given the opportunity to select the books. Then we have the book suppliers automatically sending us Top Ten Bestsellers and pre-set authors and subject areas...

The best one I recently saw was "Harry, He's here to help" A German sort of Talented Mr Ripley. I didn't think Goodbye, Lenin was as funny as everyone was making out. Another one was where a German Jewish family had moved to Africa to escape the Holocaust, but I can't remember the...

It's very interesting reading all your comments! Thank You :) From the look of things we are going in the right direction - catalogue online, reservations only 25p - 60% of which are supplied within a week, fines are less than uni's - 15p a day Things that I can't do at present are -...

I was going to put the very same one Wabbit has.. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams ... glitter in the dark near Tannhauser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost ... in time, like tears ... in rain. Time ... to...

Is that what public libraries need to be like to attract people in? More like bookshops?

Generally the number of people coming into the library has increased - mainly due to free internet access. There is a steady decline in the number of books issued, however, despite an increase in the number of bestsellers and new books available. I am trying face on displays of books of the...

This sounds like a great idea! I'll have to investigate the possibilities. Thanks. We have posters up asking for donations, but nine times out of ten it's people clearing out their junk and the books are not fit for a charity shop.

I've only been a member for a month or so but I am interested to see that nearly all of you buy your books. Is it because of consumerism and wanting to possess your own reading material? - I know it's nice to read a brand new book but do you keep them all and never read them again? Or is...

Time Traveller's Wife I loved this book too - I read it about 6 months ago when it fist came out here in hardback and it still haunts me now. It's currently my Recommendation of the Month at Dover Library, where I'm the librarian. It keeps you hooked due to the timeline changes and although...