Someplace for me to put my thoughts on libraries, librarians, library 2.0 and books
From the category archives:
- genre xgenre x is a “twenties and thirties book discussion group facilitated by the Oak Park Public Library. The group meets every fourth Tuesday at 8:00 pm at different bars in the Oak Park area.” Really cool concept that book discussion though facilitated by librarians don’t necessary have to be in libraries.(via Tame The Web) […]
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- 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Index of ResultsMeredith Wolfwater conducted an online survey of librarians and those working in the library field who blog. She has since collated all the submissions and is slowly releasing the survey results. - Young reader’s medal effort - AdelaideNowA eight-year-old boy in Adelaide has read 1000 books since […]
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A survey was conducted by Associated Press and Ipsos and they discovered that 1 in 4 American adult didn’t pick up a book to read in the past year. (Source: MSNBC) And of those who read, women and senior citizens were the most avid. Their tastes are skewed towards religious works and popular fiction. The […]
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Publishers Weekly has an article on what were the books that first got some authors and celebrities interested in reading. The authors and celebrities are participating in a US national awareness campaign, “What Book Got You Hooked?”, organized by First Book - a children’s literacy organization that provides new books to children from low-income families. […]
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Came across this Guardian Unlimited article on parents in the UK having problems reading bedtime stories to their children. It was quite shocking to see that 1 in 10 parents have problems understanding the bedtime stories that they read to their children and amongst them, almost a quarter of them choose to skip passages they […]
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Here’s my avatar on my Yahoo! account. So, how can you get one for yourself? It is actually quite simple as long as you have an accpunt with Yahoo! and I would guess that you would at least a Flickr account. Login to your account and go to Yahoo! Avatars. Select the tab marked ‘Extras’ […]
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One man is trying to change the world via his mobile library on a bicycle around Japan. Kazuhiro Doi, 28 years old, is distributing books on the environment, civil disputes and other special issues on his custom-built bicycle with special book shelves. He has been doing it for the past 2 years having started out […]
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Who’s that in between the shelves? It’s the Super Librarian!! Today (5 May), Super Librarian will be appearing in comic book stores across the state of New Jersey as part of the Free Comic Book Day. She will be fighting a villain called The Virus. Super Librarian (the comic book) is the first ever comic […]
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