Ready for this biweekly edition of Links of Note? It seems like there are lots of interesting and provocative pieces about libraries this go around. Also a lot of great groan-worthy stories!

• The year is 1937. Do you know the rules of the library? Check out the gallery of images of expected behavior in the reading room from this period in time on Galleycat. I think a lot of these images are actually still relevant — especially the rules on the left here. 

• I’m really fascinated by this piece — how do you make a book disappear completely? Can you? The Atlantic talks about how Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine seemingly disappeared, even with all the technology available to us now.  

• I like this book list of novels in verse by the topics they delve into. I’m stuck on the notion that these are controversial topics — simply because something is a part of reality, I have a hard time labeling it as controversial — but the list is pretty darn good and current. 

• One of the perks of living in a world where anyone can start a book review blog, can post a review on Goodreads or Amazon or B&N, is that we can get a wide range of review styles. But over at The Millions, there’s an interesting essay about the anatomy of a book review, and I like the points about how reviewers sometimes need to step back and figure out if it is the book or if it is them personally. Like I said though, the nice thing about online reviews is you can choose which ones you read based on the person writing them if you want.

• A lengthy but interesting piece over at Forbes asks whether consumer reviews have a future, given the great fun we’ve had discovering about sock puppeting and paid-for reviews lately. 

• Something more light hearted: the AWL looks at the cost of being a kid in a classic children’s novel now against what it cost when the book was published.

• Over at the Christchurch City Libraries blog, there’s an interesting recap of a book event that raises the question of whether or not the term YA is creating a barrier for teen readers. I pretty much think this is a big nothing, but it’s an interesting read nonetheless.  

• How about some vintage ads for reading and libraries?

• How many of the 20 most beautiful children’s books have you read? Or shall I say, how many of the 20 most beautiful children’s books as determined by the folks at Flavorwire have you read? I’ve read a few of them, but I am really loving the look of Vivaldi. And I love Oliver Jeffers’s illustrations any time.

• Hey, is young adult fiction the new chick lit? Good grief, people. Can we move on from labeling everything? Or how about more importantly, this doesn’t matter. I shouldn’t even link this because it’s nothing but bait, but it’s just so dumb I can’t help myself. 

• A guy makes lending libraries out of phone booths in New York City. Best and most absurd line in the entire story is about someone who borrowed a book, suggesting reading is dead and “shame about the internet, though.” 

• The Huffington Post Books section muses about what your favorite book says about you. I guess if your favorite book is one of the eight they feature, then you can learn a lot. And if not, you pick the closest one. They acknowledge their sweeping generalizations, by the way. 

• From the Telegraph, check out the books most often left behind in hotel rooms. Spoiler alert: they’re all best selling novels and perhaps most likely to be being read in a hotel room anyway. 

• YALSA wants feedback from members AND non-members about how they can be better. Go answer their survey. It was painless.     

• Remember the line of vintage contemporary books? Here’s a neat story about that entire series, as well as a discussion of covers, packaging, and the looks for classic books. Fair warning: this is long and I’m STILL working my way through it. But what I read was good and I plan on continuing it.

•  The always-eloquent Andrew Karre has an interview over at Mitali Perkins’s blog about editing YA books during the era of YA novels.

• I took part in a science book club in college, where we read non-fiction titles that had some basis in science/health/medicine, and one of the titles I remember reading and enjoying was The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. The New York Times reports that Lia Lee, who was the center of the story, has died from her illness. I hope this book gets another update because I want to know more of her story.

• I love this guest post written by Adele Walsh — you may know her as Persnickety Snark — about how blogging got her her dream job.

• The articles over at The Atlantic Wire about YA are getting more and more obnoxious. This week’s installment was on why adults are reading YA books. I keep linking these and I don’t know why. Their YA expert is just not. 

• How about 10 underrated books you should read? I haven’t read anything on this list, though I have read books by Handler, Murakami, Wharton and Kerouac.      

• From the Lawrence Public Library, the same folks who brought you the awesome infographic on what books you should read after The Hunger Games, comes an infographic on what you should read after Winter’s Bone. 

• I guess since I haven’t read any Jane Austen, my brain has never quite gotten the work out it should. Literary novels apparently make you smarter or something. Actually, this is an interesting piece on the science behind reading. 

• Is it egotistical to link to a post someone else wrote about a post you wrote? What if I said it’s one of my library heroes? Seriously. Seeing this this week over at Marge Loch-Wouters’s blog was out of this world. It was really good food for thought, too. 

I’m so excited about this upcoming week, I can hardly stand it. Kid Lit Con is Friday and Saturday, and aside from the presentation (which is coming together so well!), I’m excited to touch base with people I rarely get to see. I’ve made dates for tea and for gelato, and I am eager to experience New York City outside of Book Expo America. If you’re going to Kid Lit Con, I can’t wait to meet you, and if you’re not — I’ll definitely have a post or two to share with take aways.