Someplace for me to put my thoughts on libraries, librarians, library 2.0 and books
Rhymes boost child developmentA study in the UK has shown that reading and singing nursery rhymes to children will have a huge positive impact on children’s well-being and capacity to succeed. Thus, the UK will be setting up a National Family and Parenting Institute next year to help parents and child care professionals help their […]
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A Librarian’s 2.0 ManifestoA wonderful list by Laura Cohen on what a 2.0 Librarian should do. There’s also a video as well (on YouTube).(via Tame The Web) Pew Report: Young & Wired : How Today’s Young Tech Elite will influence the Libraries of Tomorrow (Powerpoint slides)Have a look. Will be good for developing user services.(via Tame […]
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Gaming in LibrariesGaming hasn’t come to the public libraries in Singapore … yet! But I’m sure some of my colleagues would definitely have looked at bringing gaming into our public libraries. It’s important to remember that gaming is not only for teenagers and children and can be a great leveler for people of all ages […]
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Publisher Weekly’s Best Books of the YearA listing of what Publisher Weekly considers the 100 outstanding books published in the past year. And they have listing of books for both fiction and non-fiction as well as for adults and children. Unfortunately, I’ve not read any of the books listed though I’m tempted to go get […]
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Cyber-NeologoliferationEver wanted to find out how the Oxford English Dictionary (O.E.D.) was compiled? This article in the New York Times Magazine provides a glimpses of what the editor and his team of lexicographers do in creating the world’s largest dictionary. The last edition, which is the 2nd edition and published in 1989, had 20 volumes […]
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At Guantanamo, what’s a bored detainee to do? Read.At the library in the remote island detention camp, Agatha Christie is still very popular amongst the detainees. The library has books in 16 different languages, including Arabic and (surprisingly) Chinese. But instead of the detainees going to the library, the librarians go round the camp with […]
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Web Marketing and the New York Public LibraryA web marketer’s look at how the New York Public Library is making use of different marketing strategies to target different groups of customers. Free Printable Coloring PagesMany free pages of black and white pictures you can print out for kids to color. There is a wide variety […]
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