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I hear ya on this one. That's messed up. Why is the government giving half a million away to private industry?

Good point, Angelo.

It's corporate welfare. How about issuing stock, or bonds or hitting up tony soprano/wells fargo for a 29 percent loan like most of the real people here. This is disgusting.

I agree to a certain extent. The CNMI government is in no position economically to be doling out $500,000 to a gaming body. Let potential investor fees pay for it. That being said, if the industry on Rota turns out to be a windfall in the future.. Saipan should then see none of the direct profits. I've not read the initiative, so I'm not sure if Saipan will anyway.

The 500k is not an investment in anything other than "plenty salary" for the gaming board. Rota has no casino investors and Saipan is as close to building a landing strip for the space shuttle as Rota is to building and managing a casino. The 500k is a bet that a paid board with no gaming experience can lure investors. There bet on this initiative is a certain recipe for failure.

Well, one thing that's wrong is that they're not listing one title but "Garfield." There are seven kabillion Garfield books -- everything else aside, that ain't no way to run a rating.

Then, of course, The Lord of the Rings is not a children's book, Huckleberry Finn even less so. (Which is why they've never filmed it well.) Feud-massacres, lynch-mobs, the DTs and hiding the money with the corpse do not a kid book make. But if the protagonist is under twenty that's how they get categorized. Sigh.

I know many libraries buy multiple copies of the Garfield books. The books are paperback and are heavily circulated, so they wear out. They may buy some copies for the children's section and some for the YA/teen area. I know we have preteens/teens who check out the Garfield books.

Does OCLC list books that are listed as damaged, missing, lost, on search, lost and paid, etc?

(More reasons why Garfields are bought in multiple copies.)

The other books are in hardcover and probably don't have the circulation numbers as do the Garfield books.

As a school librarian, I have noticed, to my utter amazement, that kids who say they cannot recall their multiplication tables or remember their vocabulary definitions can and will recite entire Garfield books to you, from memory, on demand. Sometimes it is a group performance. One kid will be Garfield and another the voice of Jon.

Garfield, like Capt. Underpants has done more for childhood literacy than any study will ever detect.

And it is hard to describe the pride and warmth of heart this father feels when his son loudly declares "and that's a sign that the tank is full" after burping in front of the in-laws or pretty much anyone for that matter! Thanks, Mr. Davis! Thanks a lot! Nothing like hearing inspirational literary qoutes from the mouths of babes. *sigh*

I just feel sorry for whichever kid ends up as the part of Jon. Talk about a small part. I bet it's always the same kid time and time again too.

What I'm trying to say is that I probably would've ended up as Jon. I was always Bert to my friends' Ernies.

Is this list supposed to include titles for teens? When I think of children's lit., I think of books for ages 0-12. I would think some of these classics classify for young adults. I couldn't believe Garfield either on this list!!

I looked at other titles, one of them was Joy of Cooking. Definitely not children's material. Maybe there is some sort of mistake or something?

The Joy of Cooking is on the OCLC Top 1000 list. The Top 1000 list is not a children's books list, but is composed of the top 1000 books held by libraries around the world. Within this Top 1000, there are 178 children's books - see link at the top of the Fuse#8 post to see the children's books.

In addition, there are 24 Newbery Medal books within the Top 1000 books held by libraries around the world: http://1stedition.net/blog/2007/03/newbery_medal_oclc_top_1000.html.