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Source: www.artsjournal.com Date: Nov 16, 2009 "A high school librarian in Phoenix says a former student at the school returned two overdue books checked out 51 years ago along with a $1,000 money order to cover the fines."... More Source: www.infotoday.com Date: Nov 15, 2009 Millions of people turn to YouTube daily to watch offbeat, irreverent, and sometimes newsy videos. But another website presents videos that are more substantial and intellectually stimulating. More Source: www.guardian.co.uk Date: Nov 15, 2009 School receives two books checked out in 1959 along with money order to cover fines from anonymous former student More Source: Library Journal Date: Nov 15, 2009 It's been a long time since we broke the chains that secured the books to the shelves and let them circulate. Now it's time to do the same for reference librarians. We need to break the bonds holding us at the reference desk and start circulating outside. Around the globe, in organizations of More Source: www.npr.org Date: Nov 9, 2009 A boarding school in Massachusetts has removed its stacks and book collection to make way for Kindles and a subscription to millions of digital books. Administrators say the changes reflect current student habits; critics say they're rash and don't account for different learning styles. More Source: newsbreaks.infotoday.com Date: Nov 9, 2009 OverDrive, Inc. (www.overdrive.com), a provider of ebooks and audiobooks to libraries and schools, announced the launch of its AudioBook Classroom service (www.audiobookclassroom.com), which allows K-12 schools to provide cost-effective access to a sizable catalog of audiobooks of many different More Source: www.teleread.org Date: Nov 6, 2009 When does a library cease to be a library? This was the central point of a debate about the fate of educational institutions' brick-and-mortar libraries at More Source: stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com Date: Nov 6, 2009 On Monday night I had a unique and exciting dinner. It was with two of my grade school librarians, Ms Baird and Ms Carter. I had been anticipating dinner with them for weeks. I was very excited. I hadn't seen them in about 37 years.You see, libraries saved my life. I was the nerdy, small More Source: www.charlotteobserver.com Date: Nov 5, 2009 More than 3,000 school librarians from around the country are gathering in North Carolina to talk about the future of their profession. More Source: www.resourceshelf.com Date: Oct 30, 2009 From the ALAs District Dispatch Blog: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 More Source: www.wo.ala.org Date: Oct 30, 2009 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 More Source: www.designinglibraries.org.uk Date: Oct 28, 2009 A database of descriptions and images of recent library building projects. A resource for sharing expertise and experience on library planning and design. More Source: features.csmonitor.com Date: Oct 27, 2009 Books: Book reviews, news from the literary world, and a daily blog by the books editor of The Christian Science Monitor. More Source: www.prnewswire.com Date: Oct 15, 2009 The agency was forced to terminate nearly all complimentary Game News subscriptions in 2005, as part of a major cost-cutting effort to bring agency expenditures in line with revenue. More Date: Oct 15, 2009 The Reading Agency (TRA) is exploring how its Children's Reading Partners (CRP) programme can be extended to schools and school library services after it reached more than 30,000 children and 4,000 libraries during its first year. More Source: www.ala.org Date: Oct 13, 2009 NEW! Interview: Mohammad Abbas talks about his role as head of the new Library Department of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, the nations parliament in Baghdad. More Date: Oct 12, 2009 Students at the University of California at Berkeley staged a 24-hour sit-in this weekend at the anthropology library to draw attention to the extent of budget cuts in general at the university, and to the cuts being faced by specialized libraries, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. Most of More Date: Oct 9, 2009 Infomancy n. 1.The field of magic related to the conjuring of information from the chaos of the universe. 2.The collection of terms, queries, and actions related to the retrieval of information from arcane sources. More Source: Criticas Date: Oct 2, 2009 Funke, Cornelia. tr. Rosa Pilar Blanco. U.S.: Scholastic en español. 2009. 592p. ISBN 978-0-545-07914-3. pap. $9.99. More Date: Sep 29, 2009 I’d urge everyone who believes that all children in this country need access to a properly resourced school library and the skills of a qualified librarian to sign the petition. More Previous | Next
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