Mr. Lemony Snicket himself has funded an award for librarians: The Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced With Adversity (PDF link). It’s true! This is all kinds of awesome.

Law librarians had a bit of adversity last Friday, when the U.S. court network was hijacked briefly.

Throwing out old newspapers is horrifying to a genealogist. But a lot of state libraries are facing that situation.

And while it’s still cold and gray here, spring will arrive sooner or later, and that means spring training, and there will be expanded opportunities for instant replays this season, and Bill Lucey has asked sportswriters what they think. (Deep breath – that was quite the run-on sentence.)