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Many small libraries use web resource LibraryThing to help sort their inventory, as do readers all over the world who want to keep track of their tomes. The site is now urging users to form FlashMobs to catalog complete library inventories. They explain that the event usually entails a gathering where "LibraryThing members descend on some small library with laptops and CueCat barcode scanners, catalog their books in LibraryThing, eat some pizza, talk some talk and leave them with a gleaming new LibraryThing catalog."

It's Library Lovers Month and that makes me happy. I'm a lover of all things Library and in fact, a third-generation librarian (well, three credits short of my MLIS degree.) You don't need to be smart or even a book-lover to love libraries, as silly as that sounds. Libraries are of the people, by the people, and for the people. They are yours to use and enjoy. In honor of Library Lovers Month, check out this librarian who did some at-home curating.

Los Angeles is the Cultural Capital of the 21st Century. From visual art to cutting edge music to innovative theatre and live performances to some of the world's leading cultural institutions - we truly have it all. But all great cultural capitals have - in addition to the arts and culture as mentioned - a forum for public discourse. The Greeks had the agora for assembly, education, and interaction; and though we have our own Agoura, there is something missing in terms of the town square of Los Angeles, unless you know where to look for it.