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• YALSA Nominates Michael Cavallaro’s Parade (With Fireworks) As a Great Graphic Novel for Teens!

  
  Hypergeek — Authority: 515
  Image Comics have informed Hypergeek that Michael Cavallaro’s Parade (With Fireworks) has been nominated in for the Young Adult Library Services Association’s (YALSA) 2010 Great Graphic Novels for Teens list.To see the full nominations, please visit: ...
  16 hours ago

• Boom! Studios Titles Nominated For 2010 Great Graphic Novels For Teens List

  
  Hypergeek — Authority: 515
  BOOM! Studios have informed Hypergeek that several of their titles have been nominated in for the Young Adult Library Services Association’s (YALSA) 2010 Great Graphic Novels for Teens list. For full details see the press release below: BOOM! STUDIOS TITLES NOMINATED FOR 2010 GREAT GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR ...
  1 day ago

• Time Management in Libraries: some thoughts on continuing education classes

  
  Berkeley Heights Public Library Book Blog — Authority: 119
  Anyone who has ever attended Continuing Education (CE) classes knows that sitting in a chilly meeting room, drinking coffee that tastes like styrofoam, while watching a Power Point slide show, which duplicates the handout slide-for-slide, are the order of the day. A popular CE topic is time management. Obviously, time ...
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• Library Doings - Springwood Library Refurbishment

  
  Readers in the Mist — Authority: 127
  Have you seen the new look Springwood Library? Springwood Library underwent a refurbishment at the end of October. This involved getting new shelving, furniture and having some walls painted. The end result has seen Springwood Library turn into a lighter, brighter place! Come in and see the changes for ...
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• Support for Research: An Academic Library Manifesto

  
  Feral Librarian — Authority: 103
  Support for the Research Process: An Academic Library Manifesto has just been published. This brief call to action document represents the collaborative work of the RLG Research Information Management Roadmap Working Group . The goal of the document is to set forth a “top 10″ list of action items for Academic ...
  3 days ago

• Writing Workshops

  
  Library Log — Authority: 118
  The Writing Center is continuing its fall series of workshops. Register for one now and brush up on effectively integrating research and citation into your writing. November 12th, 7p.m.: Use of Visual Elements: Power-point dos and don’ts November 15th, 3p.m.: Research Skills for Capstone Projects: Methods and ...
  3 days ago

• Parks and Recreation – “Ron and Tammy”

  
  Cultural Learnings — Authority: 475
  “Ron and Tammy” November 5th, 2009 “Now listen to one of mine.” There’s nothing special about “Ron and Tammy,” except that it’s probably the funniest Parks and Recreation to date. There’s a guest star, yes, but not one who feels overly forced into the story or on who the show relies ...
  6 days ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  Readers in the Mist — Authority: 127
  A library in the US is accepting food instead of money to pay off overdue fines according to one news report . For every can of food borrowers with overdue fines can have $1 of their fine cleared and borrowers can bring in as many cans of food as they want. However, only overdue fines are being waived, not charges ...
  1 week ago

• Budding bookworms

  
  Readers in the Mist — Authority: 127
  A new report, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics last week, has pleasing results as far as libraries are concerned. According to the report, Childrens Participation in Cultural and Leisure Activities April 2009 , a little over 50% of Australian children have visited a public library in the year leading ...
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• Fab Friday

  
  Readers in the Mist — Authority: 127
  Fab Friday is a cool kids club for primary school aged children which takes place at Springwood Library on the first Friday of each month (during term times). Come along and hang out with Jane Davidson and your friends and try fun new things - it could be art, could be movies, could be anything! In ...
  1 week 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

• Prep School Library to go Bookless

  
  Berkeley Heights Public Library Book Blog — Authority: 119
  USA Today reports that New England boarding school, Cushing Academy, has decided to discard most of its book collection and replace it with electronic books and databases. The library had about 20,000 volumes which is now down to half that number, in the physical sense, but pumped up into the millions of volumes in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quick Tip: Quick Links

  
  Library Log — Authority: 118
  Need to start a research project? Want to find a librarian in your subject area? Looking for our latest DVD? Check out the Quick Links on the left side of our homepage . You can find a lot of the things you’re looking for in a snap. Research : Start with “Proquest Research Library” as a jumping off point to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Five Essential Apps for Your Nonprofit’s Facebook Page

  
  iLibrarian — Authority: 471
  The Nonprofit Tech 2.0 blog has a quick guide to Five Essential Apps for Your Nonprofit’s Facebook Page . Many of these apps would also be particularly useful for a library’s FB page as well. During my presentation at the Suffolk County Library Association yesterday, I suggested two of these five for library ...
  2 weeks ago

• BC Leg: Hansford - teacher-librarians DEAR recognized

  
  the Virtual Bookmark — Authority: 121
  TEACHER-LIBRARIANS AND PROMOTION OF READING R. Cantelon: Yes, today is Drop Everything and Read a book, and thats good advice to everybody in this House and in our communities. We have today with us some teacher-librarians who are facilitators in helping students find the magic of books and learn from it. They will ...
  2 weeks ago

• get up, stand up

  
  Eleventh Stack — Authority: 421
  This week I attended the ne plus ultra of librarianship on the local level: the Pennsylvania Library Association Conference in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I got to: a) Meet, hug and fawn over my favorite author Jennifer Weiner (I asked her to inscribe my book, “To Bonnie, my best friend”) b) Win an iPod, even ...
  2 weeks ago

• Public libraries’ potential grows ever larger in digital age

  
  The Platform — Authority: 575
  St. Louis Main Librarys Great Hall Libraries long held a monopoly as the place to go for research: anything from basic matters like job searches and gardening to esoteric matters like Azerbaijanian culture. The Internet has changed a lot of that, putting basic —…
  3 weeks ago

• Is There a Librarian in the House?

  
  Berkeley Heights Public Library Book Blog — Authority: 119
  People dont become librarians for the fame, fortune or excitement, but theres a little Walter Mitty in all of us... Marian the Librarian is flying to a librarian convention, nodding off in her middle seat, which she has thoughtfully not tipped back to avoid annoying the passengers behind her, and trying not to snore ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tales of Extreme Outreach Pt. 2

  
  Library Attack — Authority: 106
  In my first installment of Tales of Extreme Outreach I discussed my joining my department’s intramural soccer team. Our record has been spotty, but I’ve really enjoyed playing with the grad students and I think we’ve all had fun. Last night I split my head open a little playing a game against the Killer ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bookshares Making Books Accessible

  
  ricklibrarian — Authority: 122
  After the furor over the Kindle 2 having text-to-voice conversion built in, you might have thought that the visually-impaired had no other access to print books and newspapers. The Kindle 2 did simplify the access and widen the offering for people unable to read traditional books, but there are other sources of ...
  3 weeks ago

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