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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.

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

Fusenews: In which I cram in a whole mess of resources just for the heck of it « A Fuse #8
blog.schoollibraryjournal.com | Feb 10, 2012
Two authors of children’s books passed away recently, one on the American side equation and across sea in Britain.  For Yanks, Bill Wallace has been our shelves for any number years.  You can read a lovely SLJ obituary him here.  As other person, that would [... ]

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...

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

Bookjoy!: Apply Now for the USBBY Bridge to Understanding Award
sharebookjoy.blogspot.com | Feb 9, 2012
Bookjoy! January 16, 2012 Apply Now for the USBBY Bridge to Understanding Award The USBBY (United States Board on Books for Young People) Bridge to Understanding Award Committee seeks to identify and honor innovative programs that use children's literature as a way to promote international

The Life of Books: Exciting Times are Coming: Check out Law.gov
thelifeofbooks.blogspot.com | Feb 9, 2012
skip to main | skip to sidebar The Life of Books This blog is dedicated to exploring the idea that "books are dead". (Yeah, right.) Sunday, October 18, 2009 Exciting Times are Coming: Check out Law.gov It's rare that the buzz in the air is equal to the reality. I think that we're finally

Out of the Jungle: Proposition 8 Ruling in California
outofthejungle.blogspot.com | Feb 8, 2012
Out of the Jungle Thoughts on the present and future of legal information, legal research, and legal education. Wednesday, February 08, 2012 Proposition 8 Ruling in California slate gives a very shrewd reading of the narrow decision in the Circuit Court appeal of the Prop 8 case in California that