May 2013
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WRAL Mobile Family: Raleigh mother, sons share... →
That moment when you realize the story about a homeless woman and her kids is really a story about one of “your regulars.”
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“Why Society Still Needs Feminism
Because to men, a key is a device to open...”
– Caitlin O’Donnell, Drake University. (via on-another-note)
FYI Full Review of the aforementioned Caitlin Moran books is coming.
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ALA Chicago 2013 YA Coffee Klatch!
List of authors looks amazing!! Can’t wait.
Derf Backderf, Julianna Baggott, Hannah Barnaby, Julie Berry, Francesca Lia Block, S. A. Bodeen, Beverley Brenna, Jeffrey Brown, Selene Castrovilla, Kristin Elizabeth Clark, Trish Cook, Carolee Dean, Cory Doctorow, Simone Elkeles, Colleen Gleason, Julie Halpern, Rachel Hartman, Pete Hautman, Faith Erin Hicks, Brigid Kemmerer, James Kennedy,...
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Unshelved's New Bookblrbs →
Tiny book talks by Unshelved on Facebook and Twitter? Yes please!
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What Happens If You Flip The Gender Of Book... →
Yesterday, author Maureen Johnson had a great idea. She tweeted “I do wish I had a dime for every email I get that says, “Please put a non-girly cover on your book so I can read it. - signed, A Guy” - and so came the idea for a challenge for her 77,000 followers. A challenge that she called Coverflip.
Super cool idea; really terrible A Game of Thrones cover.
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“Social media is not going away. As new platforms emerge, libraries will need to...”
– Social Media: Libraries Are Posting, but Is Anyone Listening?
This is about Facebook but its still very good.
(via libraryjournal)
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Love My Library Job
Because…
Yesterday I got to make Mother’s Day flowers out of tissue paper with my afterschool kids—and even the boys were really into it.
Two words—Net Galley.
Little kid hugs for no reason.
Hearing, “I told you librarians know everything.”
Conferences. Librarians know how to party.
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The Secret Museum: The treasures too fragile or... →
laura-in-libraryland:
nypl:
NYPL is featured in a new book by Molly Oldfield called The Secret Museum, which highlights fascinating some fascinating objects located in “museums” around the world… including Charles Dickens very intriguing letter opener, which is in NYPL’s Berg Collection. Read all about it!
Writer Molly Oldfield has delved into the vast collections of objects stored away and...
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“Children’s work has always been centered in transformative experiences....”
– Pam Sandlian Smith, “Architects of Dreams: Anythink’s Pam Sandlian Smith on the Power of Children’s Librarians” (via schoollibraryjournal)
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Why Everyone Should Care About Libraries →
librarymayhem:
mlarents:
“That is why you should care, because for those moments when nobody else cares, we care, and we will get the answer. We serve the public, all of the public. We need you, all of the public, to support us. We cannot serve if the buildings are closed and the staff are laid off.”
Best advocacy write-up I’ve ever read.
“Librarians are out there making things just a...
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What’s the one thing that nearly all parents agree... →
Ninety-four percent of parents say libraries are important for their children, according to new report by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
This is why I do what I do.
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April 2013
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One article with all you need to know about The... →
n brief: The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) launched last week. This article attempts to tease out the librarian response to DPLA and explore what it means for the future of the library in popular imagination, as well as in our field. I describe the what, who, and how of DPLA and ask, after two years of work on the project, what can librarians can expect from DPLA and what does DPLA...
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Ask Your U.S. Senators to Vote NO on CISPA! →
The House of Representatives passed a broad cybersecurity bill Thursday that allows corporations to share customers’ personal data with other firms and the U.S. government, even in cases in which a company has a signed contract explicitly vowing not to do so.
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Neil Gaiman reads from Lemony Snicket and Jon... →
Are you afraid of The Dark? So is Laszlo, the young protagonist of Lemony Snicket’s new children’s book, illustrated by 2013 Caldecott Medal winner Jon…
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CNN Reporting Explosions at JFK Library
themugglelibrarian:
Connection to the Boston Marathon seems unverified, or at the very least, up for debate at the moment. Regardless, still a tragic day. Sending good thoughts to those in Boston and their loved ones.
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Bookish: Lemony Snicket & Jon Klassen on Going... →
I WANT THIS!
bookish:
We talked to authors Lemony Snicket and Jon Klassen on their picture book collaboration, “The Dark.”We asked both the author and illustrator of the book some questions about their joint effort over email. Here, they reveal the inspiration for “The Dark,” their attraction to darker themes and…
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Transforming Our Libraries, Ourselves: Who's... →
ala-annual:
Steven D. Levitt to speak at Annual’s Opening General Session
Steven D. Levitt, co-author of the upcoming “Think Like A Freak”and of the smash No. 1 international bestseller “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything” promises to turn attendees’ brains…
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“Libraries want to buy your work at a reasonable price so that we may continue to...”
– ALA President Maureen Sullivan’s response to Scott Turow in The New York Times.
(via cloudunbound)
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Getting stoked about ALA Chicago 2013. Are you?
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“The move also adds to the sense that Amazon is slowly buying up much of the book...”
– Amazon Buying Goodreads: Industry Reactions - Shelf Awareness
Pretty impressive list of ownership by Amazon. And by impressive, I mean “thoughtfully frightening sometimes”.
(via booksyarnink)
Frightening indeed.
March 2013
22 posts
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More than just books: Arizona libraries add public... →
Super interesting article about a library doing something different that doesn’t include maker spaces—refreshing.
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O Revelations! Letters, Once Banned, Flesh Out... →
An anthology of letters sheds light on the very private Willa Cather, now that her ban on publication of her correspondence has been lifted decades after her death.
I’m really looking forward to reading these! Although I couldn’t care less about who she was sleeping with or if she was gay (which I had always assumed she was.)
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Iraqi librarian saved 30,000 books during 2003... →
“About ten days after the troops entered [Basra], the library was completely burnt down. We carried about 30,000 books to the restaurant and to our homes. Then, we transferred them from the restaurant to our homes in my own car and in cars belonging to the employees. Most of these books and manuscripts were rare and important ones. Regrettably, we lost a lot of books in the fire,” she said.
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“I love the Duchess of York. In 1988, she is very fat but married to a prince. ...”
– Caitlin Moran in How to Be a Woman 