While discussing readers' advisory and how to find books for patrons, I decided that there needs to be a book-version of Pandora.com. Lo and behold, a Google search for "Pandora for books" turned up a site called Booklamp, available at http://beta.booklamp.org. They aren't completely up and running yet - which is sad, but I can also see the enormous amount of work that will require - but they do give visitors an idea of how the site might work.
A search for similar books to Orwell's classic novel 1984 turned up a number of results. Most interesting, however, was the top result: the US Patriot Act, written by the US Congress, is a 98% match.
During a class lecture on modern missions of the Library, discussing the self-improvement model of libraries, with mention of Benjamin Franklin's social libraries of the 18th century, a gchat conversation between myself and a classmate:
me: I think Franklin's idea of self-improvement was to get laid, ladies man that he was
classmate who does not yet have a niffty nickname : isn't that the point of all self-improvement?
Ok, a sad point to make: done with class, I took the time to read the FAQs for Booklamp.org and 1984 matching the Patriot Act was simply an Easter Egg. (http://beta.booklamp.org/forum/faq.html - scroll to bottom of page; it is the second to last question.)
However, I still reserve the right to giggle.
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