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This afternoon, in an email to his staff, David Westin, the president of ABC News, announced that ABC News will be converting its existing research library on the second floor of its 47th street building into a smaller, more cyber-focused "Digital Research Facility."

"Our extensive, hard copy library filled with periodicals and other materials is no longer necessary in the digital age," wrote Mr. Westin. "The time has come to re-shape that library to reflect today’s world."

In my opinion, that "no longer necessary" line is like running away from zombies to a spooky abandoned gas station and shouting "What else could possibly go wrong?"

Thanks to Slog Tipper Davida, who asks "Isn't this essentially the plot of Desk Set?"

This week in the book section, I review a couple of books that would be great summer reading for you.

You might like The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet if you like certain authors:

Late in Reif Larsen's debut novel, the titular character, a 12-year-old mapmaking prodigy, mentions E. L. Konigsburg's classic novel for middle readers, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. It's a telling reference: If you treasure Konigsburg's novel about two precocious children who run away to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you'll probably enjoy Larsen's story of a precocious young boy who flees Montana by train to accept an award from the Smithsonian. If whimsical fiction about children who are wittier and wiser than 99.9 percent of all adults isn't your thing, you should vigorously ignore this book.

But I wish I'd waited for the weather to get better to read Colson Whitehead's newest novel, Sag Harbor. It's ideal:

The lazy subject matter makes this the perfect summer novel: It's a book to read in a bright shaft of light, preferably outdoors so you can look away from the bright pages and see the whole happy world at play.

Lots going on today.

The Hugo House is hosting Write-O-Rama, "an eight-hour extravaganza of mini- writing workshops." It is also a fundraiser for the Richard Hugo House. Then, when Write-O-Rama is done, they'll host Voice Rising, a collection of "spoken word, hip hop, dance and drag performances" intended to celebrate gay pride.

At noon, Yasmine Galenorn reads at the Seattle Mystery Bookshop. Her book Demon Mistress is about fairies, which the author frustratingly decides to spell as "faeries." Fuck that shit. Four cookbook authors read at the U Village Barnes & Noble.

Elliott Bay Book Company hosts Kaya McLaren. In her novel The Divinity of Second Chances, a family falls apart and a pair of bagpipes are involved. Then, later, Barbara Olins Alpert also reads at Elliott Bay Book Company from The Creative Ice Age Brain: Cave Art in the Light of Neuroscience, a book that combines the Flintstones and the Jetsons in a big science-y orgy.

Janna Cawrse Esarey reads at Third Place Books. She and her "sail-mate" travel 17,000 miles across the seas in The Motion of the Ocean. This is a good title for a book. Esarey reads all over town next week, so don't feel bad if you miss her tonight.

And University Book Store hosts Mariel Hemingway, who reads from her new cookbook. This is as close, genetically speaking, as you'll ever be to Ernest Hemingway.

I'd have to say the Voice Rising event is the Reading of the Night. There haven't been many Pride-themed literary events so far this month.

The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here.