LISNews: Librarian News

I spotted whatihaveread.net over on Metafilter the other day.
It's a big in-depth list of everything Eric Leuliette has read. His mother started keeping the list when he started the first grade. She kept the list until 1977 and he's kept the list since he was in the fifth grade.

Yigal Ben Efraim wants us to know about his site: STANDS4.com. It's a user-entered dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations. The collection is quite extensive, and worth a look.

In Mauritania, in the village of Chinguetti gradually overcome by sand, the inhabitants are fighting to save centuries-old manuscripts, among the oldest of Islam.

These \"peasant librarians\" are struggling to save this treasure from wind and sand, an account of the time when Chinguetti was a flourishing city along the caravan route, a cultural lighthouse for poets and scholars alike.

A gallery of photos by Remi Benali.

From the Chronicle of Higher Education:

\"I don\'t think anyone\'s had more influence in philosophy, and perhaps in other areas, than Aristotle,\" argues Richard Ingardia, a professor of philosophy at St. John\'s University, in New York. The proof, Mr. Ingardia says, lies in a project to which he has devoted eight years: an electronic bibliography that aims to collect citations to all research conducted in the past century on the Greek philosopher.

Complete story and the bibliography, which contains over 40,000
entries (registration required).