Reader Roundup

While the UK is cutting its funding for 400 libraries, South Korea is vowing to build an additional 180.

Meanwhile, Time has first-person coverage of the riots in Tottenham.

Al Jazeera posted photographs of the London streets during the chaos.

If you’re doing research online, you might be interested in signing up for Pubget, It collects a bunch of open-access pdfs in one spot, including the journals and documents you can get through library cards and university IDs.

NPR has polled its listeners in order to create a masterlist of the 100 best science fiction and fantasy books. If you trust NPR listeners and like sci-fi/fantasy, it is a very useful document.

I really enjoyed this LA Times piece from last week. It profiles a Holocaust survivor who was forced to give his infant daughter up to a Christian orphanage, only to be reunited with her years later.

At the New York Times, a psychologist explains how President Obama’s failure to tell the public a good story is holding him back. (You’ll have to sign in to read the article)