LISNews: Librarian News

Charles Davis saw Yahoo News Story on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Rare original manuscripts for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang go under the hammer next
month.

The novel of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang the flying car with a bubbly
personality was originally penned by James Bond author Ian
Fleming in 1961 as he recovered after a heart attack and is based
on stories he used to tell his son.

Fleming manuscripts are extremely rare. The major Fleming
collection held by the Lilly Library at Indiana University does not
even include an autograph manuscript or typescript of Chitty,
auction house Sotheby\'s said.

The manuscripts of the three original adventures as well as
sketches of the car are expected to fetch at least 12,000 pounds
when they go under the hammer in London on December 12.

The Guardian has a small story about France moving the medal clad and mustachioed bones of Alaxandre Dumas to the Pantheon in Paris.

The remains will be taken to Paris this weekend, his coffin flanked by musketeers and actors in period dress.

True, this information *might* be useful to answer a reference query some day, but let\'s get some practical value from this story. I suggest dressing up as a musketeer and making a book display of Dumas\' works.
The full story.

CNN has A Story on Pedro Juan Gutierrez and Leonardo Padura, Cuba's two most widely acclaimed writers.
This story have them reflecting the differences between the frustrations and failings of real life on the island and the illusory world of government propaganda.

Here's Another Story on Michael Moore, and the trouble he had with Stupid White Men.
If you're not familiar with the story it goes something like this, guy writes book, book gets printed, terrorists attack, publisher wants to pulp book, librarians catch wind of the pulping, book gets published, librarians save the day.
ReganBooks claims the librarians had minimal impact. "We did not receive a lot of comment from librarians, not a lot of feedback from outside,"
The rest of the article takes a good look at Self-censorship in the publishing industry.