Take a gander at the great book reviews your colleagues (including yours truly) have composed as a Non-Required Summer Reading List for incoming students: Leap: Read Any Good Books Lately?. All I can say is, ‘Thank God I work in a library’, otherwise I would go bankrupt buying books because all of these titles sound pretty darn good.
Tara

Coming Soon–the Generation D.I.Y Film Festival at VanCity Theatres. Check out titles and showtimes here
Tara

Google office in Zurich
Tara

Excerpt: “Some years ago, I was awakened early one morning by a phone call from a friend. She had just broken up with a boyfriend she still loved and was desperate to justify her decision. “Can you believe it!” she shouted into the phone. “He hadn’t even heard of Pushkin!” Read the whole article from the New York Times: It’s Not You, It’s Your Books ”
A sobering vision of romance.
T.

Brilliant librarian reference from the Star Trek cartoon Very short. Come on. You KNOW you want to watch it.

Perogy Night at the Ukrainian Orthodox Community Center tonight!
http://www.cbc.ca/livingvancouver/?page=segment&sid=1171

Check out this nifty site from MIT: The Humanities Virtual Browsery.
http://scripts.mit.edu/~gpadilla/blog/
The browsery is designed to highlight new books in the Humanities, prizewinners, and “Hidden in the Stacks” favorites. Each post includes links to the catalogue record, other books by the author, comments from readers, book reviews, and RSS feeds. A virtual companion to the new book truck!

An excellent way to pass a very fun five minutes: History of Evil
T.

Like Google, the Wiki world continues to grow. Visit WikiHow for fun tips on how to pick locks, be romantic, make a chocolate portrait, play Guitar Hero, etc. All the things every well-informed individual should know how to do.
T.

Looking for a fun way to pass the time that is also a legitimate library related exercise? Why not help describe photographs in the Library of Congress’ collection on Flickr, by adding tags or leaving comments. Visit Flickr: The Commons