Collection Development for My Random Life.

The Boise Bike Project is moving in near where my apartment is (see below).  I ask you, is this a type of “library” to? Must a library be books, or can a library manifest itself in the way other forms of knowledge are organized and accessed such as bike expertise?

Home at Last | Rec News | Boise Weekly – News, Opinion, Music, Events, Dining – Boise, Idaho.

and also here for more info.

Tweaked: 3 different looks for an IKEA bookshelf – Los Angeles Times

I just got some fancy new bookshelves for my apartment, so no more giant piles of books everywhere. Maybe I can hire a librarian to put them in some sort of order… wait, I am a librarian!

In any event, check out the above article for making your shelves more unique.

The NY-Times has an article about “steampunk fashion” the mixing of the old and new technology (think the guts a fancy computer set in a nicely finished wood housing) –

Steampunk Moves Between Two Worlds – New York Times

I wonder if libraries are the ultimate in steampunk because they mix the old (books) with the new (computers and databases)…. thoughts?