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• Witch Child

  
  By The Book Reviews — Authority: 113
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Video Games To Add Interest To History?

  
  Platform Nation — Authority: 147
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• American Library Association declares Nov 14 as National Gaming Day

  
  GamingAngels — Authority: 521
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• ALA Recognizes National Gaming Day

  
  GayGamer.net — Authority: 539
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Book News: Sequels, Lesbians, T.S. Eliot’s Post-Wasteland Exhaustion and the Battle for Jack Kerouac’s Estate

  
  Book Case — Authority: 418
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Patriots Act: Am Library Assn Elevates Talk on H.R. 3845 Surveillance Bill to Action

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 549
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• America’s Librarians Call for Patriot Act Surveillance Reform in Congress

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 549
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• ALSC’s “Kids! @ your library” Campaign.

  
  http://www.papertigers.org/wordpress — Authority: 469
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Two sets of priorities

  
  Library Juice — Authority: 459
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Scholastic Bans Book with Lesbian Moms from Book Fairs

  
  Mombian — Authority: 475
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Walking Through One Door Opens Up a Myriad of Others

  
  Spirited Woman Blogger Team — Authority: 136
  There are so many ideas in the world - inspiration and creative ways of looking at things, doing things... experiencing ideas. You can walk through one door and let yourself open up thousands of others . One of my favorite places to go is through the door to my local library. When I was a child even though I went ...
  3 weeks ago

• ALA Celebrates Teen Read Week!

  
  The Knight Agency Blog — Authority: 121
  The American Library Association kicked off Teen Read Week on October 18th. This years theme is "Read Beyond Reality." The purpose of this special week is to remind teens that one of the greatest forms of entertainment is reading, which is "free, fun and can be done anywhere." If there are any teens out there ...
  4 weeks ago

• Obama touts “literacy awareness”

  
  Book by Book — Authority: 118
  President Barak Obama has had his hand in many issues of late — from healthcare reform to the war in Afghanistan, from corporate bailouts to trying to host the 2016 Olympics.  Now, he is emphasizing that American need to have the skills to effectively navigate the Information Age. Translation of this: Libraries ...
  6 weeks ago

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