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• Sony Digital Reader Touch Edition – Silver

  
  Kill Deal — Authority: 167
  displays eBooks purchased from the CONNECT eBook online store displays Adobe® PDFs, plus TXT, RTF, Microsoft® Word files, and RSS web feeds plays MP3 and AAC music files (protected files not supported) 512MB internal memory holds approximately 350 eBooks Product Description The Reader Touch Edition features a ...
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• Local Libraries offer Free FUN!

  
  Kid Friendly Asheville — Authority: 430
  Storytimes at Pack Library will not be offered for the duration of our library renovation project. Contact Pack Library to check the status of our services or please visit one of the other 11 branch libraries in the county. Mother Reading Story Time at the library focuses on early literacy as it helps children ...
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• Sony Digital Reader Pocket Edition – Silver

  
  Kill Deal — Authority: 167
  Elegant, lightweight design with 5 display Carry up to 350 of your favorite books at a time Access a wide number of online bookstores Paper-like display for easy, natural reading Intuitive eBook Library software for PC and Mac Product Description The Reader Pocket Edition features a 5″ display and an ...
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• Sony Digital Reader Touch Edition – Red

  
  Kill Deal — Authority: 167
  displays eBooks purchased from the CONNECT eBook online store displays Adobe® PDFs, plus TXT, RTF, Microsoft® Word files, and RSS web feeds plays MP3 and AAC music files (protected files not supported) 512MB internal memory holds approximately 350 eBooks Product Description The Reader Touch Edition features a ...
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• Celebrating 80 Years of Magic at the Holiday Parade

  
  PVLD Director's Blog — Authority: 111
  It was truly a magical evening when PVLD won the Mayors Trophy at the 2009 Rolling Hills Estates Holiday parade!  With a rabbit coming out of a top hat, a wizard and a fairy godmother, and more magicians than you can shake a wand at library staff members outdid themselves creating an amazing parade entry on a ...
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• Bibliomoto Peruana

  
  Bilingual Librarian — Authority: 124
  I’ve seen biblioburros , a camel mobile library , a traveling library in a suitcase , and now here’s a bibliomoto offering library services around the Huarmey province in Peru. The bibliomoto is part of the Biblioteca Comunal Obraje which aims at promoting literacy and increasing a general level of education ...
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• Heroes of the faith

  
  Poems at The Poetry Showcase - Share your poems at the Poetry Showcase — Authority: 166
  Public libraries free, Can almost always be, Wonderful, uplifting places, Filled with such treasures. Chief among them to me Are books about the God-inspired men and women -- read more
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• Reference Question of the Week - 11/29/09

  
  Swiss Army Librarian — Authority: 412
  A little elderly woman walked up to the desk. She handed me a call number written on a piece of paper and said, I need a librarian’s assistance in getting this book. This happens. Sometimes a book isn’t on the shelf where it’s supposed to be because it got misshelved, or a patron left it at a table, or it ...
  5 days ago

• The Lakeside Christmas Party

  
  Collecting My Thoughts — Authority: 439
  Its tonight. Always fun to see our old friends. We meet at Wesley Lodge, enjoy a dinner, and usually sing carols or have a program or both. Many have already closed their cottages for the year, but we dont since ours is a "real" house with plaster walls, gas furnace, storm windows, etc. We bought it from the ...
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• Tool lending libraries

  
  Bilingual Librarian — Authority: 124
  I just came across a blog entry at Superpatron about how the community organization Hands on New Orleans has decided to create a tool lending library . Hands on New Orleans has managed to accumulate a good amount of tools in the process of helping rebuild New Orleans after the city was hit by Hurricane Katrina, ...
  6 days ago

• CNN Hero of 2009

  
  On The Same Page — Authority: 124
  From CNN From wheel chairs for Iraqi children to knocking on doors to schedule mammograms to feeding the hungry every day from his own kitchen to protecting children from pillaging soldiers, people are reaching out to those they see in need: For the past 12 years, Peñaflorida and his team of teen volunteers have ...
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• “Everybody wants to save the library in Darby, PA.” [No.12.1.2009. 153.

  
  Librarian — Authority: 122
  Darby officials, facing the possible closing of the historic library founded in 1743, say they are committed to keeping it open , even if taxes go up. “The residents said that if we had to raise taxes, they would appreciate that we do,” Mayor Helen Thomas said. “Everybody wants to save the library.” ...
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• Just Browsing? Why it’s Important

  
  The Book Goddess — Authority: 92
  Do you enjoy browsing for books?  Many people do, but I believe I read somewhere that this behavior is on the decline.  So I’ve decided to give you permission to browse, and to tell you why I am convinced it’s a good thing for you to do. I’m aware that there is much to be done and little time in which to do ...
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• A library in a phone booth

  
  Bilingual Librarian — Authority: 124
  Take a look at the UK’s smallest library! The resourceful folks from Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset converted an old phone booth that was out of use into a small lending library after the town lost its library. People bring books they have read and exchange them for new reading material, CDs and DVDs. Read the ...
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• Araw ng Pagbasa (Reading Day) 2009

  
  School Librarian in Action — Authority: 120
  The Quezon City Public Library (QCPL) system kicked off the celebration of National Book Week with a Reading Day - Araw ng Pagbasa in its selected branches last November 23, 2009. The event was a week long celebration of books, reading, children and senior citizens regaling the young listeners with stories read ...
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• Reflections on the Emerald City

  
  ALIA Board Blog — Authority: 104
  I’ve just returned home from Sydney, a combination of ALIA and ‘real job’. It was great to catch up with so many friends and colleagues over the 5 days and be immersed in all things library. Congratulations to the organisers of SWITCH: Public Libraries in a Changing Environment the 2009 NSW Public ...
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• Charity Begins At The Library

  
  Book Patrol — Authority: 498
  Libraries may be struggling with cuts in hours, staff, and budgets but that doesnt mean those institutions have forgotten that some folks are worse off than they are. Below is a very short, and NOT at all inclusive list of libraries that are sponsoring charitable efforts to make the holidays happier for everyone: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Editorial Supports Family Friendly Libraries in Greensboro, NC, and Bandwidth Shapers Help

  
  SafeLibraries — Authority: 416
  This editorial from the Greensboro, NC, News & Record is outstanding in its support for common sense and family friendly libraries: " Editorial: Libraries Versus Porn ," by Editorial Board , News & Record , 19 November 2009, emphasis mine: Still, the library keeps searching for a happier medium and ...
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• Westwoods 66 maintains 2-shot lead in Dubai - Golf - The Olympian …

  
  Dubai for Visitors — Authority: 155
  Lee Westwood maintained his two-shot lead at the Dubai World Championships after shooting a 6-under 66 Saturday in the third round. See the rest here:  Westwoods 66 maintains 2-shot lead in Dubai - Golf - The Olympian …
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• ALA Washington Office submits testimony to House Education Committee on libraries’ role in improving literacy

  
  District Dispatch — Authority: 419
  Contact: Jenni Terry Press Officer, ALA Washington Office For Immediate Release Washington, D.C. – Emily Sheketoff, executive director of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Washington Office, today filed testimony for the official record of the House Committee on Education and Labor’s Subcommittee ...
  3 weeks ago

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