Someplace for me to put my thoughts on libraries, librarians, library 2.0 and books
From the monthly archives:
Curious about how the cover of Harry Potter’s last book looks? Well, Guardian Unlimited has the story and the children’s cover for the Bloomsbury edition of the seventh and final book in the JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series. If you don’t already know, the last book’s title is Harry Potter and the Deathly Gallows and […]
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UK Schools Refuse Gifts of ‘Boring’ ClassicsBooks by Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and even William Shakespeare have been rejected by about 50 schools in the UK because they feel that their students would find it too boring to read. What was worrying from the report was that the librarians and teachers were the ones who […]
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A total of 20 novels have been chosen in a longlist for the 2007 Orange Broadband Award. Last year’s winner was Zadie Smith’s On Beauty (Call No.: English SMI). The Orange prize is the only UK’s fiction award opened to women writers. And the award is open to any woman writer as long as she […]
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Saw this meme on CW’s blog earlier this week. Basically, the meme is for library bloggers to list 5 non-library-related blogs that they like and read. Hmmm … I’ve got a ton of blogs in my RSS reader. So, here’s five of my current favorites (and they change according to moods). Read/WriteWeb: A blog about […]
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Apparently, my blog is a threat to China as they have been banned by China’s national firewall according to this unscientific test. What’s surprising is that MPOW’s site is blocked as well. But like I said, it’s totally unscientific and even the website says that there are chances that it shows ‘blocked’ because of some […]
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- InappropriateAn article in the New Yorker about other inappropriate words that have appeared in either the titles or text of works meant from those below twelve. This is in response to the recent controversy in the US over the use of the word “scrotum” in a children’s book, Susan Patron’s The Higher Power of […]
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Link A 5-minute video tribute to librarians. It includes snippets of old movies and other YouTube videos featuring librarians. And do pay attention to the song in the first portion of the video. Technorati Tags: librarians, tribute, videos, youtube
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The manuscript of an unpublished novel of Jeanette Winterson was apparently left at an Underground station in London by a staff of the publisher, Penguin. A teacher on her way home after a night out found the 134-pages manuscript of The Stone Gods lying on a bench at the train station. Thankfully, she recognized the […]
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