Reading lists, yay!

Yes, I know, I'm a complete dork. But my school sent me an email with all this fun induction information, including a recommended "Background Reading List."

• Any of the following items will provide useful background reading. We recommend that you read two or three of them before joining the programme.
  
  Black, Alistair, 2000. The public library in Britain, 1914-2000. London: British Library. ISBN 0712346856
  
  Borgman, Christine, 2000. From Gutenberg to the global information infrastructure: access to information in the networked world. MIT Press. ISBN 026202473X
  
  Charlton, Janet & Rosalind Johnson, 2001. National information policy. London : Library Information Technology Centre. Library & information briefings; 103.
  
  Dimbleby, Richard & Graeme Burton, 1998. More than words : an introduction to communication. 3rd ed. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415170060
  
  Feather, J., 2004. The information society : a study of continuity and change. London: Facet. ISBN 1856044971
  
  Feather, J. & Paul Sturges, 2002. International encyclopedia of information and library science. New York ; London: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0415259010
  
  Hauptman, Robert, 2002. Ethics and librarianship. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. ISBN 0786413069
  
  Orna, Elizabeth , 2004. Information strategy in practice. Aldershot: Gower. ISBN 0566085798.
  
  Raish, M.H., ed., 2003. Musings, meanderings, and monsters too: essays on academic librarianship. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810847671.

Tee-hee, "programme." I realize some of these titles look dead boring, and I don't know how many I'll be able to find around here. Let's hope I don't run across the International encyclopedia of information and library science, because that thing scares me.

Number 4 makes me think of the hideous song that people play incessantly on the guitar in college living rooms. All I have to hear is that opening "Strum, smack, strum-smack, struuuum . . . " and it sends me straight to the kitchen to jam a fork into my ear. Same thing for "Dust in the Wind." My agony is made complete when people start singing along, in groups, with their eyes closed.

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