May 2012
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“Fortunately the NPR librarians know just the trick to get them unstuck: bake...”
– A Sticky Situation: Baking the Tapes
May 31st
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May 31st
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The Greatest Girl Characters of Young Adult... →
May 29th
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May 29th
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May 29th
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May 28th
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May 25th
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Advocacy Spotlight: Brandy Hamilton Uses Passion... →
Gotta shout out to my state, my library system, and my lovely friend Brandy Hamilton.  Way to go! 
May 24th
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May 24th
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May 23rd
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Warning: You Are About to Enter the Ebook Zone →
libraryadvocates: While there is no evidence that library lending negatively affects sales, we do know that book borrowers are also book buyers. An April study by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Society Project (“The Rise of E-Reading”), ebook enthusiasts read more books than the average print-book reader and prefer to purchase what they want to read, although some start their...
May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 22nd
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May 18th
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May 16th
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YA Literature into your earphones--for free!  →
Teens will have the chance to check out two free audio titles each week this summer—one bestselling title and one classic.  Librarians and educators—be sure to check out the tool kit for bookmarks, posters and other goodies.
May 14th
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450 Free Audio Books →
May 14th
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May 11th
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Libraries Own Random House Ebooks
libraryadvocates: At the Massachusetts Library Association annual conference in Worcester this morning, Ruth Liebmann, director of account marketing at Random House, stated emphatically that libraries own the ebooks they purchase from Random House. Keep reading at American Libraries.
May 10th
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Maurice Sendak, Children’s Author Who Upended... →
Mr. Sendak, known in particular for “Where the Wild Things Are,” was widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century.
May 8th
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Fifty Shades of [Unsurprised] →
May 7th
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May 7th
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Books: The ‘Next J.K. Rowling’ Just Got a Big... →
Or something like that…
May 6th
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“Look at the life stories of our most admired leaders in every field of endeavor...”
– Molly Raphael, President of ALA in My View: Why libraries matter more than ever.
May 5th
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Stumbling Across a Rarity, Even for the Rare Book... →
A print, tucked into an old medical text, was signed “P. Revere Sculp,” and the woman who found it knew it might be big.
May 4th
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May 3rd
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Bunnies with Moustaches, and Nine Other Things I... →
May 2nd
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19 Fun Facts About Children's Books Spotted at the...
mentalflossr: This past week I spent some quality time in the children’s section of my local library. Over on Instagram (we’re @mental_floss), we’ve been sharing photos of books we saw with facts related to them. Here’s a recap of our latest field trip.
May 1st
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May 1st