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Please note: if you want to help with the spreadsheet, you must send me your gmail address. Read on!

Library Journal published this year’s list of libraryland Movers and Shakers yesterday; congratulations to them all! As usual, it’s a great list of familiar and not-so-familiar names from all over the US and Canada and makes for great reading.

LJ tends to list the honorees by cute tagline rather than by name; Jessamyn West wrote a post that lists them by name, and Connie Crosby wrote a post that lists them by name and includes a snippet of each article in addition to other useful information.

There was quite a discussion this morning (EDT, GMT -4) on Twitter among several librarians (YMMV with that link!) about the demographics of people who make it on to this annual list. I’ve pulled the 2002 – 2008 data into a Google Spreadsheet and am eager to get it filled out and do some charting. You can view the spreadsheet here; if you would like to be added as a contributor to help fill out the sheet, IM me at cinditrainor (A.O.-hoo!gleN) or send email to cindiann at that awesome gmail dot com. Once the spreadsheet is complete, I plan to create and share graphs, charts and tag clouds via Swivel.

Wheeeee!