First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. This year’s celebration will be April 13-19. Visit the library of your choice, actually or electronically. How about visiting the Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/z3950/ or the hundreds of libraries listed at their Web site, such as North Carolina State University (DRA) or Ohio State University (INNOPAC) or University of Tampa -- Tampa, Florida (Endeavor).

One thing about books . . . they are always waiting and willing to come to life,
and educate you any time you pick one up.
A Piece of My Mind, a New Collection of Essays from JAMA, the Journal of the
American Medical Association 2000

It happens in the mind of the writer and the mind of the reader.
That’s what a novel is, the exchange of dreams.
The Novel James A. Michener (1907-1997) American author

You know, a book is a little like the loaves and fishes—it can feed the multitude.
A Creed for the Third Millennium Colleen McCullough (b. 1937) Australian neurophysiologist, author

When in doubt, go the library.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J. K. Rowling 1999

Julie Andrews on libraries
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieUD9vCeXu0

The Perfect Library
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/04/06/nosplit/sv_classics06.xml

Under a 16-month-old federal law, known as the Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act, or FACTA, consumers can sue companies for putting too much credit card information on Internet and store receipts, thus increasing the likelihood of identity theft.
WSJ Law Blog April 8, 2008

The Path of Time
by Donna Dean

Wandering down the path of time,
Savoring memories I’ve kept as mine.
Watching the years roll quickly by.
Seems such a shame how fast they fly.

Remembering youth though it disappeared,
Wasn’t it yesterday those years were here?
Now I’m wandering down the path of time,
Recalling days that once were mine.

When yesterday it all seemed so real,
Now it’s just like a movie reel.
To be played over again in my mind,
While I’m wandering down the path of time.

April 10 in history
It was on this day in 1912 that the R.M.S. Titanic departed Southampton, England, on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic. It was supposed to arrive in New York City on April 15th.
It was the biggest passenger ship ever built at the time at 882 feet long and 92 feet wide. The Titanic is generally remembered as a luxury liner, but only 325 of the 2,224 people on board were traveling in first class
On the fifth night of the ship's voyage, the weather was clear and windless. There was no moon. It had been an especially warm winter and many icebergs had broken off from glaciers farther north, so the lookout men had been told to keep an eye out for them. At about 11:40, one of the lookouts, Frederick Fleet, saw a huge dark object floating in the water in front of the ship. He yelled, "Iceberg right ahead," and rang an alarm bell. Many of the passengers awake that night later said that they felt a slight bump.
More than 500 songs were written about the disaster, most famously "It Was Sad When That Great Ship Went Down" by Pop Stoneman, with the lines, "Oh they threw the lifeboats out o'er the dark and stormy sea / The band struck up with 'Nearer My God to Thee' / Children wept and cried as the water rushed through the side / It was sad when that great ship went down." The disaster has also been the subject of more than a hundred books and at least a dozen movies.

It was on this day in 1925 that F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby was published. (books by this author) Fitzgerald was 28 years old at the time. He'd just produced a play called The Vegetable (1923), which was a big flop. So he sailed with his wife, Zelda, to France in May of 1924. He found that he could see America better from a distance, and he began to write his novel about a wealthy bootlegger named Jay Gatsby.
The Writer’s Almanac

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