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• Ypulse Monthly Events Roundup: SF MusicTech Summit, National Film Festival For Talented Youth & More

  
  Ypulse — Authority: 560
  Today were bringing you our monthly roundup of cool youth media and marketing events you or your company may want to attend. If your company hosts an event relevant to the youth media or marketing space that youd like us to highlight,  email me . November Event Updates Ed. Note: For more 2009/2010 events check last ...
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• Progressive Librarians Guild [PLG] and SRRT Issues Discussion. No. 11.17. 2009. No. 143.

  
  Librarian — Authority: 123
  A polarizing “them versus us”  “old guard versus young librarians” perspective has been introduced into the SRRT discussion which is destructive, in my opinion.Nobody is preventing other issues from being raised, new task forces from being formed in SRRT. The fact is, that task-forces have formed on various ...
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• Witch Child

  
  By The Book Reviews — Authority: 115
  Author: Celia Rees Pages: 288 Mary Newbury lives in a time and a place where it is dangerous to be different. Fleeing England with little belongings, she joins up with a band of Puritans and heads off to America. Confiding everything in her diary, Mary tries desperately to fit in. After her grandmother ...
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• Video Games To Add Interest To History?

  
  Platform Nation — Authority: 444
  History isn’t always a students favorite subject, and it doesn’t get any better the older we get either. I can tell you that I am not a fan of most kinds of history. I love the old stuff (Egyptian, Renaissance, Medieval, etc…) but the more recent it is, the more boring it gets (sorry history buffs). Now I will ...
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• American Library Association declares Nov 14 as National Gaming Day

  
  GamingAngels — Authority: 576
  Some video games have had interesting links to history. For example, many shooter games have been based off of WWII, God of War draws heavily from Greek mythology, and Assassin’s Creed 2 will have you interacting with Leonardo Da Vinci. Some academics are saying that games like this can provide a gateway for young ...
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• The American Library Association declares this Saturday, Nov. 14, to be National Game Day

  
  CrunchGear — Authority: 796
  Man alive, there’s been a lot of gaming news these past few days. Continuing the trend: this Saturday, November 14, is to be hereby referred to as National Gaming Day . Thus decided the American Library Association. The day has been created in order to promote the idea that video games can be used to sharpen ...
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• ALA Recognizes National Gaming Day

  
  GayGamer.net — Authority: 554
  Via Kotaku , a piece on Reuters today reminds me that November 14, this Saturday, is the second annual National Gaming day. Thats right, the American Library Association has put up a site with a list of participating libraries and activies.Goals this year: Raise awareness about the use of games as a library ...
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• Book News: Sequels, Lesbians, T.S. Eliot’s Post-Wasteland Exhaustion and the Battle for Jack Kerouac’s Estate

  
  Book Case — Authority: 422
  With sequels to everything from Noddy, Winnie the Pooh, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and now a planned series of new Isaac Asimov novel’s it’s become the thankless task of a bunch of authors to keep the dead alive. A difficult job as Paul Bignell and Andrew Johnson argue in a recent article for ...
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• Patriots Act: Am Library Assn Elevates Talk on H.R. 3845 Surveillance Bill to Action

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 535
  Last week, the American Library Association released a statement decrying the chilling effect of the federal Patriot Act law. Under the Patriot Act, the FBI under Patriot Act Section 215 and Section 505 authority can and does obtain patrons’ library records when there is no reason to believe patrons are engaged ...
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• America’s Librarians Call for Patriot Act Surveillance Reform in Congress

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 535
  Don’t mess with librarians; they’re organized and they take notes. The American Library Association and California Library Association have released statements in which they decry the current regime of government surveillance and call for significant reforms to the Patriot Act before any reauthorization of ...
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• ALSC’s “Kids! @ your library” Campaign.

  
  http://www.papertigers.org/wordpress — Authority: 494
  One of the initiatives of the ALA’s Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) is Kids! @ your library . As part of this campaign ALSC provides free, downloadable artwork for libraries to use in promoting their programs and services to kids and families. ALSC Program Officer, Laura Schulte-Cooper tells ...
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• Two sets of priorities

  
  Library Juice — Authority: 460
  This post is a presentation of two lists of priorities – first, priorities of the Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT), and second, a list of the kind of issue that I think SRRT ought to emphasize instead. The first list is as complete a list as I was able to compile of the subjects of SRRT’s official ...
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• Scholastic Bans Book with Lesbian Moms from Book Fairs

  
  Mombian — Authority: 503
  Most of us with young children in public school know about Scholastic Book Fairs. Many of us remember them from our own childhoods. Now comes news that Scholastic has banned a book from the fairs because one of the characters has lesbian moms. (Thanks, Roger !) School Library Journal reports that Scholastic has ...
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