It's been a good month for spooky and/or feminist librarian types: Cambridge University appointed its first-ever female head librarian, and Neil Gaiman won the Newbery!

From Cassandra: legal briefs are now using rap. This really can't end well.

For Cassandra, via FeministSF: the telltale signs you're reading a really Bad Book.

Plans are afoot for an international poetry library in San Francisco. Hooray!

Tomorrow: links from others, provided there's no more snow. (The meteorologists are starting to make ominous noises about tonight.)