Unshelved has a few 2009 sponsorships available, both whole weeks and single "One Book A Day" spots. We only accept products and services we think will be of interest to our 50,000 library-oriented readers. Email me for more information.

Our stalwart store manager Jana is on a short hiking vacation this week, then she'll be back for a week, and then we're off to ALA, and then she'll be back for a week, and then gone to SDCC for a week. Phew!

The bottom line of all of this is, shipping from our store will be rather intermittent and/or delayed for the next month. If there's something you were hoping to get sooner rather than later, we recommend ordering it sooner.

Finally, if you're hoping to pick up some of our goods at ALA or SDCC please be advised that we're primarily bringing the new stuff. Most of our older "while supplies last" merch will stay at home, as will our big, beautiful, but bulky hoodies.

I finally got around to updating our list of Unshelved Book Clubs which was about five months out of date. This list is getting a little unwieldy, and I'm thinking about more useful ways to present it...

Please welcome our newest sponsor, Backstage Library Works! Here's what the have to say about themselves:

Backstage's on-site RFID tagging services bring your new system up to full functionality in record time. Working with your equipment and label vendors, we'll get your collection tagged quickly so you can start realizing the benefits that convinced you to buy all that RFID technology in the first place. For more info, click here and drop by booth 4430 at ALA.

This move proposed by the Ohio governor is just insane.

I've avoided posting anything about it because

1. If I heard about it, I assume most of our readers did,
2. We're preaching to the choir here and
3. I can't escape the feeling that this will be such an unpopular cut that the governor is expecting and planning for the backlash that's occurred, and that this is a political move in which we're all being manipulated, and I resent that more than a little.

But Bill and I wish all of you in Ohio the good luck you deserve and the money you need to continue to do the great things you do for your communites. And whether this is a sincere proposal on the governor's part or just politics, I hope, when elections come around again, your patrons make sure everyone who backed it will need to attend job hunting workshops in your libraries.