Chelsea Cain

Best-selling crime author Chelsea Cain appears to have gone into social media meltdown in a really bad case of Author Meets Facebook. In a series of posts, she managed to diss on her readers for their asinine behavior and intrusive questions. She then managed to compound the damage. Her initial posts were taken down pretty promptly, […]

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Library users are not going to be thrilled when they discover that many—actually most, probably—of the titles on the summer reading lists recommended in seemingly every magazine (online or in print) are unavailable when they check the online catalog or look on their library shelves. What can we do for those readers? You certainly don’t want them to leave the library empty-handed or exit the library’s website in frustration. That’s why I think the roundup produced by the ALA RUSA-CODES Reading List Council is so good. For every new book cited,