The Essential Man’s Library

I caught this link off of digg a few days back. At first glance I felt ridden with guilt because I’m a librarian, but since I have an addiction to the Web, I rarely read novels from cover to cover.

Surprisingly, after clicking through the list I noticed that I’ve read about one-third of the books at some point in the last 10 years of my life.

A timeless classic from my youth was Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet. I still remember that book from 6th grade…not too much else from 6th grade but Hatchet was pretty cool. Catcher in the Rye was good, too. People have their own opinions but I think The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, Culture Against Man by Jules Henry and Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville also belong on that list.

Any that I’m missing?

60 in 60 by Chris Harris

If you can spare an hour of your time, either at work or at home or somewhere in between, I highly recommend 60 websites in 60 minutes, Chris Harris’ latest presentation from the New York School Library Media Conference.

Being a somewhat of a self professed nerd techie in libraryland, I can appreciate Chris’ analysis of available 2.0 tools and their best use in academic and educational settings. It’s a pretty comprehensive list of what’s on the Web to help you in your own quest to digitally reshift.