Short Takes

Harry Potter has launched yet another craze: wizard rock. Two brothers from Boston—Paul DeGeorge, 26, and Joe DeGeorge, 18—were so obsessed with J. K. Rowling’s wizard that they formed the band Harry and the Potters. Paul impersonates Harry in year seven, and Joe impersonates Harry in year four. Currently on tour, the two perform in all sorts of places, but their absolute favorite venue is the library. What does the future hold? “We’re planning to keep rocking out until the seventh book drops, and then who knows? We’ll have to read and find out, won’t we?,” says Paul. For more information about their tour and third CD, visit www.eskimolabs.com/hp.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Syracuse University offer the top three library graduate programs, respectively, according to U.S. News & World Report. The University of Washington, the University of Michigan, and Rutgers University came in fourth, fifth, and sixth place, respectively. For school library programs, Rutgers State University, the University of South Carolina at Columbia, and the University of Maryland at College Park were the top three programs in 2006. Leading schools in children’s and youth services were Florida State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Rutgers.