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iLibrarian » How to Talk to Your Patrons About Penguin & Other Publishers Not Loaning eBooks to
oedb.org | Feb 11, 2012
Bobbi Newman at Librarian by Day offers advice about How to Talk to Your Patrons About Penguin & Other Publishers Not Loaning eBooks to Libraries. This helpful post provides a suggested script for discussing ebooks with patrons, contact info for publishers, and plenty of resources on the topic.

Review of the Day: The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis « A Fuse #8 Production
blog.schoollibraryjournal.com | Feb 11, 2012
The Mighty Miss Malone By Christopher Paul Curtis Wendy Lamb Books $15.99 ISBN: 978-0-385-73491-2 Ages 9-12 On shelves now. *Spoilers Included!* Fact: It is a truth universally acknowledged that new book from great good thing. There out there. by Curtis. Opinion: doesn’t work. When you hand

California State Library Blog : Pew Internet: The Tone of Life on Social Networking Sites
blog.library.ca.gov | Feb 11, 2012
The overall social and emotional climate of social networking sites (SNS) is a very positive one where adult users get personal rewards and satisfactions at far higher levels than they encounter anti-social people or have ill consequences from their encounters.

Penguin pulls out of OverDrive, stops ebook sales to libraries | Quillblog | Quill & Quire
www.quillandquire.com | Feb 10, 2012
Daily updates from the blog division of Quill & Quire, Canada’s magazine of book news and reviews Penguin Group has announced it will no longer provide ebooks to OverDrive, effective immediately. With the termination of the relationship between the publisher

Bookjoy!: El día del amor y la amistad
sharebookjoy.blogspot.com | Feb 10, 2012
Bookjoy! February 10, 2012 El día del amor y la amistad My favorite translation of Valentine’s Day in Spanish is El día del amor y la amistad, love and friendship day. Doesn’t the addition of friendship make the red-heart-and-sweets-day even more special? Friends have always been an important part

The PLA Blog | Official Blog of the Public Library Association
plablog.org | Feb 9, 2012
Registration for the PLA 2012 Virtual Conference is now open. On March 15-16, 2012, the Public Library Association (PLA) will share a condensed, live and online PLA Conference with public librarians and public library workers who can’t make the trip to Philadelphia. The PLA 2012 Virtual Conference

How Users Search the Library from a Single Search Box - The Distant Librarian
distlib.blogs.com | Feb 9, 2012
A preprint from College & Research Libraries is well worth your read, even if you're not a webmaster: How Users Search the Library from a Single Search Box (from NCSU, Cory Lown, Tito Sierra, and Josh Boyer) Abstract Academic libraries...

Catalogablog: New Romanization Tables
catalogablog.blogspot.com | Feb 9, 2012
The new Khmer, Moroccan Tamazight, and Syriac Romanization tables are now available for downloading from the < a href="http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html" > ALA-LC Romanization Tables < /a > webpage. < br / > < div class="zemanta-related" > < h6 class="zemanta-related-title"

Teaching with the Library of Congress
blogs.loc.gov | Feb 9, 2012
The Library of Congress has launched a new blog to help teachers bring the power of the Library's online collections into the classroom: Teaching with the Library of Congress. < br> < br>The Library has the world’s largest online collection of primary sources—more than 20 million historic

Library Juice » Women in Libraries – February 2012 issue
libraryjuicepress.com | Feb 9, 2012
There is a new issue of Women in Libraries, formerly a print publication, is now online. It has items on the Occupy Wall Street Librarians on feminism, activism & librarianship; Elizabeth Andrejasich’s Q&A with Hillary Jordan; and the 2012 Amelia Bloomer List.