Someplace for me to put my thoughts on libraries, librarians, library 2.0 and books
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The shortlists for James Tait Black Memorial prizes for non-fiction and biography have been announced yesterday. The James Tait Black Memorial prizes were founded in 1919 by the widow of Edinburgh publisher James Tait Black. The book award is also quite unique as it is the only one that is judged by scholars and graduate […]
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So, what is a “Living Library”? From this Times Online article, a “Living Library” is one that loans out a real person rather than a book for 30 minutes. Depending on availability, the line-up of the human “books” are different. This seems like quite an interesting way to acquire knowledge. But I guess this might […]
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- “Empty Pockets” PSA for Australian LibrariesYouTube Text Link(via LibrarianInBlack) - Carnegie’s shortlist takes children back in timeUK’s oldest and most prestigious children’s book award has just announced it’s shortlist. Interestingly, all the nominees have a common theme of world history and its conflicts. The shortlist is as follows: Elizabeth Laird’s Crusade, Tanya Landeman’s Apache, […]
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Australian author, Sonya Hartnett, was announced as this year’s awardee for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial award for literature. The award comes with a 5m Swedish kronor prize (S$1.41m) and this is the sixth installment of the award. She would be presented with the award on 28 May by Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria at Stockholm’s open-air […]
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- 100 books every child should readA pretty long article that has been broken up into 4 parts. This first part is just an introduction into the joys of reading, particularly when you start at an early age. The other three list the books according to the age of the child: early years, middle years […]
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With the final book of the JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, to be announced in a few hours’ time, the Guardian Unlimited has reported that ChildLine, a counseling service for children and young people in the UK, will be adding additional staff over the next few days to cope […]
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If your guess was Harry Potter, then guess again. In a poll carried out by the cinema advertising company, Pearl & Dean, found that Harry Potter came in third with only 9% of votes out of 3,000 movie fans. The overwhelming winner was the white-haired wizard from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Gandalf, with […]
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- China establishes more than 30,000 rural librariesWhen I first saw the headlines, I was flabbergasted. 30,000 libraries?!?! And this figure is just what has been established since 2006. I guess the size of China makes is a reason why they need to build so many libraries. But you might need to note that given […]
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