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- Taking Play Seriously at the Public Library with Young Video Gamers
The New York Public Library recently organized an event as part of their “Game On @ The Library!” initiative to showcase their latest addition to their collection - video games. Game consoles, such as Nintendo’s Wii, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s Playstation 3 amongst others, were put around the lobby of the library for anyone to try out the different video games on giant TV projector screens. And they hope to expand their range of games to even online PC games such as ever popular World of Warcraft.
(via LISNews)
- Seven Deadly Words of Book Reviewing
This is meant more for my personal note as I do a little book reviewing for MPOW. Anyway, some choice words that you should avoid using when doing your book reviews such as poignant, compelling and intriguing.
(via LISNews)
- Lookybook
An ebook site dedicated to children’s picture books. Definitely worth a look if you’re a children’s librarian. Currently, there are about 200+ titles and the site hopes to expand that to 1000 by the mid of the year. Reading is free and you don’t even need to register. However, registration to the site allows you to create bookshelves, read and write reviews, and email interesting books to your friends, amongst other privileges.
(via LibrarianInBlack)
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In relation to Lookybook, what do you think of http://www.biguniverse.com/?
Thanks John for the heads-up on Big Universe. The site looks rather interesting with quite a lot of resources that might be useful to my colleagues in the children's services.