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• Comics to educate children about diabetes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) If comics like Chandamama or those featuring Chacha Chaudhury or Phantom fascinate you, get ready for a new set where your superheroes will spread awareness on diabetes.Conceptualised by the Delhi Diabetes Research Centre (DDRC), the comic “Diabetes and You” was launched in the capital ...
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• Sec. Duncan says school administrators should protect funding for libraries

  
  District Dispatch — Authority: 524
  The US Chamber of Commerce hosted the Institute of Competitive Workforce’s Education and Workforce Summit 2009 today.  US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan gave the Opening Address and talked about the needs of our education system and why Race to the Top will be so important. Race to the Top Fund is a competitive ...
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• Signs Signs Everywhere!

  
  Tame The Web — Authority: 123
  Don’t miss: http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2009/11/7/signs-signs-everywhere-theres-signs.html I walk into too many libraries with signs like this: What might happen if we replaced our welcome signs with ones like these? Where would kids learn best? OK, let me have it.
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• Washington Post Recommends Teen Book by Richard Dudum

  
  Press About — Authority: 156
  Acclaimed Washington Post columnist Marguerite Kelly recommends that parents give their daughters, and their school libraries, “a fine book of straightforward, straight-arrow fatherly advice”.San Francisco, CA, November 02, 2009 — Acclaimed Washington Post columnist Marguerite Kelly recommends that parents give ...
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• House re-introduces SKILLs Act emphasizing role of school librarians

  
  District Dispatch — Authority: 524
  The Strengthening Kids’ Interest in Learning and Libraries Act, or the SKILLs Act, was re-introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives this week with support from both sides of the aisle.  This legislation is intended to ensure that all students will have the support and resources they need for a quality ...
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• Photo roundup!

  
  Have Phaser, Will Travel — Authority: 122
  On the way to the Capitol Theatre, in Sydneys CBD, to see "Wicked". This jacaranda tree, in full bloom, created the most bizarre optical illusion against the azure blue sky, but the flowers have photographed much darker than Id hoped. Still pretty, though. 24 October 2009.Kitchen light. 25 October 2009.My Wollemi Pine ...
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• Coming to AASL in Charlotte? Network at YALSA’s Happy Hour!

  
  YALSA — Authority: 425
  AASL’s National Conference in Charlotte is Nov. 5-8 in Charlotte, N.C., and YALSA will be there! You can visit the ALA booth in the exhibits hall and see Nichole Gilbert, YALSA’s program office for events, and you can network with your colleagues at the official YALSA Happy Hour. Join YALSA upstairs at ...
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• A School Library Journal Must Read

  
  New Trier Library — Authority: 121
  If you have not yet seen this article, be sure to read, “ Things that Keep Us Up at Night ” by Joyce Kasman Valenza (JudyG’s guru) and Doug Johnson (speaker for our copyright session at ISLMA last year). It makes many, many provocative comments on topics of importance (e.g., use of space, copyright issues, ...
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• Lost Sleep in Search of a Big Picture

  
  Sentiments On Common Sense — Authority: 91
  I had a nice compliment this week from visiting consultants we had at school. In our debrief with them at the end of an intense week of embedded PD, they noted to me that they liked working at my school because I keep my job focused on the big picture. Hmm… I thought… the “big picture”.   What e xactly ...
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• the honest scoop – 10-28-09

  
  honestbaby — Authority: 431
  Today’s top news headlines for parents A Space Shuttle astronaut might end up welcoming his newborn into the world from Earth orbit . After losing his 9-year old son, a father makes it his mission to get the word out about congenital heart defects . A dying 6-year old leaves behind love notes to her family: ...
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• WLA 2009: Canoe the Open Content Rapids

  
  The WLA Blog — Authority: 120
  Canoe the Open Content Rapids Dorothea Salo, UW System Digital Content Group http://www.slideshare.net/cavlec/canoe-the-open-content-rapids [under Creative Commons Attribution license] Instruction Digital storytelling - copyright issues over pulling from files found on Google Images - sets a bad ...
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• Signing off... my shoestring library makeover?

  
  Have Phaser, Will Travel — Authority: 122
  And so, with a Kevin Rudd BER new school library to be built on the site of my schools existing, antiquated, portable library, further plans for renovating the current building went on permanent hiatus. I am very glad I only lightly nailed my internal signage to the walls, rather than gluing them, because almost ...
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• Blame My Brain! SLARI Conference 2009

  
  Welcome to Library.ie — Authority: 126
  Nicola Morgan , author of Blame my brain: the amazing teenage brain revealed will be speaking at the SLARI Conference to be held in Dublin City Public Library & Archive , Pearse Street, Dublin 2 on Saturday 14th November 2009 from 9.30am – 3.00pm. Topics to be addressed include: • The Fascinating ...
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• Joyce Valenza

  
  International Edubloggers Directory — Authority: 125
  Joyce Valenza, USA, K-12 Joyce Kasman Valenza loves her work as the librarian at Springfield Township High School (PA)! For ten years, she was the techlife@school columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Joyce is the author of Power Tools, Power Research Tools and Power Tools Recharged for ALA Editions. She ...
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• ‘Twilight’ books removed from some school libraries

  
  Boomerang Blog — Authority: 131
  Librarians in some primary schools have reportedly removed Stephanie Meyer’s ‘Twilight’ series from shelves and asked parents not to allow students to bring the books to school. ‘We don’t have a policy of censorship but the issues in the “Twilight” series are quite different from the Harry Potter ...
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