Colorado College Humanities Liaison Librarian Steve Lawson writes: “On a very busy Sunday of third week [end of fifth block, February 2011], a student asked me about these “reserved” signs on a few tables in the second floor atrium. The library was full of people studying, even sitting on the floor, but these two tables were open with their reserve signs. This was either a pretty good prank or an excellent psychology experiment: you can’t reserve the tables in the main second floor reading area.” Thanks, Steve Lawson!

February 5, 2011 was Save Our Libraries Day in the United Kingdom. In Milborne Port in Somerset a hooded “book snatcher” stole books from children, and protesters in Sheffield held a shhh-in. There was a flashmob read-aloud in Cambridge, and we hear one supporter of libraries spent the day “joyreading.” This image is a “logo” for the Woburn Sands library — I love how it’s a sort of anti-logo, NOT the usual simple, simplified, simplistic, bombastic, corporate logo. Thanks, Dina Wood!