If you spend a good part of the day searching, or helping others search better, then you need to check out Start Your Search Engines by Anna Adam and Helen Mowers…I’m loving Clusty.com myself.
Amazon.com’s TextBuyIt Lets Customers Shop Via Text Message As if it wasn’t easy enough to unload your dough on the retailing behemoth’s site, Amazon has rolled out a new service that lets customers use text messages to shop. With the addition of the new service, called TextBuyIt, to Amazon’s existing mobile offering, including its mobile site and mobile iPhone site, customers can now shop, compare prices, and buy from Amazon.com virtually anywhere they are, with any mobile device, using either text messages or their mobile device’s Web browser.
“With TextBuyIt, if you’re walking out of a concert and want to buy a CD from the artist you just saw, or if you’re at dinner and a friend tells you about a great book you should read, all you have to do is get out your mobile device, send a text message to Amazon, reply to the response, confirm your order, and your item will be on its way,” says Howard Gefen, Director of Amazon Mobile Payments. read more...
SLJ Goes to the Movies
Nim's Island
Maybe it was to lure a big-name actor, but the character of novelist Alex Rover—played by Jodie Foster—has been significantly beefed up in the film adaptation of Wendy Orr’s Nim’s Island (Knopf, 2001), a modern take on The Swiss Family Robinson. Consequently, Foster hijacks the film from ostensible star Abigail Breslin, who really does seem to be having the time of her life as Nim, an 11-year-old living on a beautiful South Pacific island with her scientist father, Jack (Gerard Butler), and her friends Fred the iguana, Galileo the pelican, and Selkie the sea lion. (Yes, they are as cute as they sound. Wisely, the adult actors rarely compete with these scene stealers.) read more...
VIDEO/DVD Understanding Brothers and Sisters with Asperger Syndrome Gr all levels–Each segment of this innovative program addresses a different age audience, but they all focus on the same issue: the challenges of having a sibling with Asperger Syndrome and the techniques that young people can use to get along better.
AUDIO Celtic Dreamland PreS-Gr 3–Ten renowned performers of Celtic music contribute melodic, tranquil folk pieces that will sooth restless little ones to sleep, or provide quiet relaxation for older children and adults.
Tami Albin, a University of Kansas instruction and outreach librarian, remembers getting the message when she was little that it was inappropriate to have crushes on other girls. Albin also remembers the few books available about growing up gay when she went looking for answers in her public library.
Those are some of the reasons why Albin, 38, is reaching out to gay, lesbian, bisexual, trangendered, and questioning (GLBTQ) youth—and their parents—by recording up to 100 oral history interviews that will be posted next September on KU's ScholarWorks Web site, an online digital repository. read more...
A brave little bear who tries to fight global warming and a girl’s fantasy-filled journey that includes environmental protection and world peace are winners of this year’s National Green Earth Book Awards highlighting the best children’s and young adult books that inspire environmental stewardship.
Sponsored by the Newton Marasco Foundation, a nonprofit environmental organization, the literature award not only raises awareness of environmental issues, but also instills a sense of responsibility for nurturing, protecting, and defending the natural environment. read more...
Watch and Read: Spotlight on Media Tie-ins
From Comics to the Big Screen Iron Man (PG-13), a live-action movie based on a Marvel Comics superhero, blasts into theaters on May 2, 2008. Robert Downey Jr. plays Tony Stark, a billionaire industrialist and brilliant inventor who is kidnapped by terrorists in Afghanistan. Commanded to build a missile, he instead uses the available resources to create a high-tech suit of armor and escapes. Back in the United States, Stark uncovers a plot to use his technology for evil purposes, dons his now-improved armor, and vows to protect the world as Iron Man. Produced by Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios and directed by Jon Favreau, the movie also stars Gwyneth Paltrow as Stark’s executive assistant, Pepper Potts; Terrence Howard as his best friend, James Rhodes; and Jeff Bridges as the villain, Iron Monger.
Check out the official Web site for previews. read more...
Coordinates and supervises selection, processing, maintenance, and evaluation of the Federal Depository collection, according to Guidelines for Federal Depository Libraries; Serves as a resource specialist for traditional and electronic Federal, state and municipal publications; Maintains the Government Documents webpage by creating links to government resources; Successfully integrates Government Documents into college curricula and initiatives; Informs community residents about free access to government information and publications; Coordinates the Collection Development liaison program to identify, develop and promote print, electronic and multimedia resources; Works with academic department liaisons to identify significant campus information needs; Provides library instruction,
resource selection, and reference service. read more...
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Gr 6-10–In 1951, a group of African-American high school students in Prince Edward County, VA, went on strike to protest the substandard conditions in their segregated school.
