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Library Journal Happy Thanksgiving! Some short stories for a long holiday weekend.
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Karen Kleckner and Rebecca Vnuk show you how to use bestseller buzz to draw readers to your backlist titles. Regular features include Best Seller Read-Alikes, Dusties Spotlight, and Web Crush of the Week.
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Librarians, what kind of science education programs do you have in your library?
The Times article reports that this effort will include a video game challenge: "Sony is expected to donate 1,000 PlayStation 3 game consoles and copies
of the game LittleBigPlanet to libraries and community organizations in
low-income areas.... Part of the competition will consist of children
creating new levels in LittleBigPlanet that incorporate science and
math."
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The plan will enlist companies and nonprofits, including “Sesame Street,” to spend money and time to encourage students to pursue science, technology, engineering and math.
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This just in: Library Journal's Best Books of 2009 http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA
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Four first novels and triumphal works by masters A.S. Byatt and Hilary Mantel. A searing photo essay on AIDS and Shakespeare with a twist. Newton as detective, parenting in the 21st century, and a free black man's fate in Colonial America. ...
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Library Journal's national rating of public libraries, the LJ Index of Public Library Service 2009, Round 2, rates 7,268 public libraries and identifies 258 "stars." Created by Keith Curry Lance and Ray Lyons, this round of the LJ Index is based on 2007 data from the Institute of M...useum and Library Services (IMLS).
All included libraries, stars or not, can use their scores to learn from their peers, expand service to their communities, and improve library awareness and funding. Two-time star libraries share insights into how they are putting the LJ Index to work for their libraries and reflect on what other local measures matter in their self-evaluation. And, in a series of spotlights, nine new star libraries discuss strategies that may have helped them make the leap.
The first round, based on 2006 data, was published on February 15, 2009. Thanks to a dramatic improvement in data timeliness by IMLS, this second round is possible less than a year later.
Library Journal Upset about Publisher's Weekly all-male Top 10 Books of 2009? Drawing on her favorites as well as suggestions from LJ editors and Twitter users, our talented intern Jessica Roy has compiled an informal list of top 10 books written by women. Feel free to add to Jessica's list.
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A collaborative blog about books, media,and publishing presented by the editors of Library Journal.
Library Journal How's this for a dream library job? Interested applicants, start truckin'!
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The University Library of the University of California, Santa Cruz, seeks an enterprising, creative, and service-oriented archivist to join the staff of Special Collections & Archives (SC&A) ...
Library Journal While we honor all veterans today, here are some novels that commemorate those who fought and died in World War I.
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The 11th day of the 11th month marks the 91st anniversary of the armistice that ended the Great War. The “war to end all wars” certainly qualifies as wishful thinking now, as we look back over nearly a century of conflict. ...
Library Journal Are you a fan of Glee? ShelfRenewal's Rebecca Vnuk offers some gleeful tie-in reads. Alan Warner's The Sopranos (not those Sopranos) follows an all-girls choir through a weekend of pub crawling, snogging, and shoplifting. My cup of tea!
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Karen Kleckner and Rebecca Vnuk show you how to use bestseller buzz to draw readers to your backlist titles. Regular features include Best Seller Read-Alikes, Dusties Spotlight, and Web Crush of the Week.
Library Journal Today marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Five new books examine the consequences of that momentous day.
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Twenty years ago this November, the world changed when the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) responded to increasing Eastern bloc unrest by permitting its citizens to cross into West Germany. The iron curtain, manifested to the world most clearly by the concrete Berlin Wall, fell. ...
Library Journal The New York Public Library has a new logo. What do you think? Forward-thinking? Or Dumbed down?
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The evolution of The New York Public Library's new logo - with designers' video responses below. Today's NYPL is about books... and so much more. It is about ready access to information, providing digital content and reaching out to our communities both locally and globally. ...
Library Journal Check out this week's edition of our free e-newsletter BookSmack! featuring Books for Dudes, an interview with comics artist Eddie Campbell, & zines by people of color.
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Library Journal Librarians, do you have backlist titles that never seem to circulate? This lively new blog by librarians Karen Kleckner and Rebecca Vnuk will show you how to kick-start your collection. Nobody puts backlist in a corner!
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Karen Kleckner and Rebecca Vnuk show you how to use bestseller buzz to draw readers to your backlist titles. Regular features include Best Seller Read-Alikes, Dusties Spotlight, and Web Crush of the Week.
Jean Marzollo
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Jean Marzollo is the award-winning author of I SPY, Pretend You're A Cat, Happy Birthday Martin Luther King, Close Your Eyes, Mama Mama/Papa Papa, the Shanna Show books, In 1492 and many other children's books and books for parents and teachers. She is the award-winning author/illustrator of Ten Little Christmas Presen...ts, Ten Little Eggs, Bible stories, and Greek myths. Jean Marzollo is also the author/illustrator of online interactive ebooks for children, Monsters for Sale and Castle Crash featuring Teddy Bear and Greenie the Troll. She is the producer of an online musical version of Close Your Eyes and online interactive rebus songs and poems. Her online interactive children's books can be played on computers and SMART boards.
Other Public Figure:377 fans
AudioFile Magazine Audie-winning narrator Dion Graham talks to Library Journal about his favorite audiobooks. Graham fans, what are your favorites?
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Dion Graham won an Audie Award for his reading of Athol Dickson's River Rising (Recorded Bks., 2006), and his recordings of George Pelecanos's The Turnaround (BBC Audiobooks America) and Marcia Ann Gillespie and Richard A. ...
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