Comeback 2.0 (via Tumblr)

In both Sydney, Australia and London, two signs have appeared announcing that Lance Armstrong's titles have been moved to the fiction sections. Oh, it's like the Million Little Pieces problem all over again!

In Sydney's Manly Library:

A photo taken by British Tumblr user/library employee A Sad Man, My Friend who was inspired by the Manly prank to create his own:

You know, this is really all Oprah's fault. If she'd just stop having all these famous people admitting that their life/work was a complete lie, our lie-braries might go back to being the truth-braries we know them to be.

Flipping through the pages counts as reading! (Courtesy of House Beautiful)

Some developers wanted to turn precious New York libraries into condominiums, but now some are making sure that their condominiums have libraries within the building. Maybe it makes sense. In a slump of apartment sales, it might just be easier to panel a lower-level studio apartment with fine oak wood, buy out a row at the Strand, and add another bullet point to the amenities list!

The library has become a popular "low-cost frill" that's sweeping across apartment buildings in New York, The Times notes.

"[The library] may be a marker of luxury. It’s like having that fourth kid," Roy Kim, senior vice president of design Extell, the company behind the massive One57 project, told The Times—we imagine with a straight face, hard as that is to believe.

Though, like some fourth children, the libraries have blossomed into beautiful rooms. Developers usually seed the collection which, in turn, spurs neighborly generosity and library growth. It only took a few coffee table books on design to garner similar additions from personal collections in its rooftop library.

At 1 Rector Park, the residences are not large, and that its library–named Bar and Books–"can be a retreat while the housekeeper is vacuuming, or to get away from the nanny and children," according to James Lansil, senior managing director at Corcoran Sunshine.

Is the retreat the books or the bar?

mewing@observer.com

Via the People's Library

Following Tuesday's early morning raid on Zuccotti Park, the mayor's office tweeted out a picture of a bunch of books being kept in a storage facility in midtown. Was the People's Library saved?

Not quite.

As their Wordpress blog was updated this morning, a lot more went into the library than those several books that were tweeted. By "recklessly" throwing objects into the dumpsters, the NYPD has almost destroyed the once-vibrant book scene in Zuccotti. Here's what is still missing:

So Mayor Bloomberg: where is the People’s Library?

• Between 2,000 and 4,000 books (we’ll know if it looks right when we see it ), this includes five boxes of “Reference” materials many of which were autographed by the authors;
• Our custom made “OWS library stamps;”
• 5 (4?) laptop computers;
• Our wifi device;
• miscellaneous paper supplies;
• A round portable table;
• a rectangular portable table;
• 6 metal shelves (five of which had been set up in two pieces);
• three sets of wooden drawers;
• a periodicals spinning rack;
• Approximately 60 plastic tubs/bins of varying sizes (most small, but several big);
• archival materials (I was starting to collect some stuff in the library);
• posters (including many original posters created by OWS participants);
• two lamps;
• four solar lights;
• 7 (or so) chairs;
• a wooden dinner table (that was our’s right?);
• periodicals/newspapers/zines (not counted in our book total);
• our awesome tent;
• signage;
• personal belongings of librarians;

Okay, so the "we'll know that we've recovered all our books when we see them!" is kind of a vague statement, but still! Destroying books is bad! Bad Mayor Bloomberg, bad!