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  Reading Activates Your Brain
  Reading promotes more activity in the language area of the brain.
  by livingwithaih / on Apr 10, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “american library association”

 

• Day Against Digital Rights Management (DRM) Heats Up Debate

  
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  May 3, 2013 was the Day Against Digital Rights Management (DRM) according to a press release from the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Timed to coincide roughly with the 20 year anniversary the open World Wide Web, FSF and more than two dozen other organizations announced the circulation of a petition opposing DRM ...
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• Monday night at ALA in Chicago – Library Juice Press Reception/Party

  
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  If you’ve started your planning for ALA Annual, here’s something to consider for Monday night, July 1st. Library Juice Press is having a reception/party kind of thing at 7pm. There will be drinks and some things to nosh. We created a Facebook event with details. This will also be for Litwin Books, Library Juice ...
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• One Extraordinary Librarian

  
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  by Kathleen Ernst Like all writers and readers, I owe a huge debt ofthanks to librarians.   As a historyjunkie, I’m particularly interested in the pioneers in that profession. I recently attended a special event called “The Womenof Mill City” at The Mill City Museum in Minneapolis, MN. Actors ...
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• The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2013 Shortlist

  
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  The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2013 Shortlist Today the finalists in both the fiction and nonfiction categories were announced for this year’s Andrew Carnegie Medals. If you’ve never heard of this particular award before here’s its description as pulled from the American Library ...
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• American Library Association (ALA) “State of America’s Libraries 2013″ — Part of National Library Week

  
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  A new library-related report of interest is the 83-page: The State of America’s Libraries 2013: A Report from the American Library Association (ALA) For the accompanying press release please see here . The 5-page Executive Summary is here. And for information about the ALA please see here . Cross-posted ...
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• Banned Books: The Huff Post sequel

  
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  It seems that the Huffington Post are stealing my article ideas. Only three days after my article lamenting censorship of books, they do an article on the 2013 Banned Books campaign (September 22-28th). Now I’m not bitter, in fact, I’m currently covered in orange sherbet. So this follow-up article is to ...
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• A Wince a Day Keeps My Hopes at Bay

  
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  I’ve long been aware of the widespread misconception that comprehension, critical thinking, and the like are content-free skills. Wanting to help correct that delusion is one of the main reasons I joined the Core Knowledge Foundation. Having been with the foundation for a little over a month, I’m seeing the ...
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• The Top Ten Challenged Books of 2012

  
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  Thanks to Jason Boog at GalleyCat for alerting me to this article from the American Library Association which, among other things, lists the top ten ‘challenged’ (aka ‘banned’) books of 2012. Here they are: • Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey • “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time ...
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• It’s National Library Week!

  
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  Caroline Kennedy is the official spokesperson! I’m so thankful for libraries and librarians. And this week, it’s National Library Week! Since my book Finding My Place: One Girl’s Strength at Vicksburg has been published, I’ve been invited by librarians to speak at two different schools in St. Charles ...
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• Please, take these off your shelves!

  
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  “Take these off your shelves” is the cry that many libraries in the US are hearing. Once again, the American Library association has released their list of top book complaints for last year and some of the entries might surprise you. At the top of the list is not E.L. James‘  FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, [...]
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