Library & Literary Miscellany Links of the Week
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5 Things You Should Read about Copyright and Sharing Instructional Materials post by the Distant Librarian summarizing the first of ACRL’s Five Things You Should Read About… series (the first being 5 Things You Should Read about Copyright and Sharing Instructional Materials)
Build the Open Shelves Classification by Tim Spalding over at Thingology stirring up discussion regarding library classification systems and the future
Gaming Gone Wild by Jenny Levine over at the Shifted Librarian compiles a library-related gaming round-up with links to many wild resources
How much longer will libraries need librarians? by Walter Minkel over at The Monkey Speaks. Here’s a brief excerpt: “We need to be offering programming that pulls literacy together with the materials in our collections. Youth librarians need to be offering “literacy counseling” to parents who come in and ask us questions about the best materials for their children. We need to be more than the greeters that some public libraries seem to be moving their staff toward. ”
LA: Essentials of Listening Advisory by Joyce Saricks over at Booklist Online discussing the similarities and differences (and importance) of providing RA with audiobooks
Ten Years of Learned Helplessness Coming to an End by Lori Ayre over at Tech Essence exhorting librarians to jump in and help improve open source ILS systems
What Librarians Can Learn from Starbucks Fall by Designing Better Libraries reiterates the importance of the personal touch and identifying/maintaining/bolstering core services
Literary
2008 Notable Books for a Global Society Booklist sponsored by the Children’s Literature and Reading Special Interest Group, International Reading Association (thanks to Jen Robinson’s Growing Bookworms Newsletter for the link)
Book Review: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by the A.V.Club rockets this one to near the top of my reading pile (and then I may not even need to review it myself since Donna Bowman did such a brilliant job)
Booker Talk: BBC’s How Do You Win a Booker Prize followed up by Rushdie Wins Best of Booker Prize
British Book News by Tasha Saecker over at Kids Lit providing links to some articles in The Telegraph that cover children’s literature
Did Fleming Rescue Churchill? over at Literate Lives discussing a new book that may prove to be a useful and more interesting way to introduce youngsters to the research process
Good News for People Who Love Bad News, and Vice Versa by Kier Graf at Booklist Online’s Book Blog with links to and discussion of, well, some bad news and good news for booksellers and book lovers
Carry-On Books To Take You Up, Up And Away by Nancy Pearl over at The Morning Edition suggesting books for your in-flight reading pleasure
The ‘New Classics’ post by Nora Rawlinson over at Early Word points out the book display potential inherent in Entertainment Weekly’s lists such as the selection of the 100 “New Book Classics” and the 25 New Classic Book covers
Stephenie Meyer: Inside the ‘Twilight’ Saga by Karen Valby at Entertainment Weekly provides an inside scoop on the making of the Twilight vampire empire
Upcoming Movies Based on Kids/Teen Books By Tasha Saecker includes some screenshots and links to the IMDB entry
Miscellany
Virtual Worlds: 20+ Tools for Creating 3D Graphics and Environments: suggestions from Sean P. Aune over at Mashable
57 Useful Google Tools You’ve Never Heard Of by College @Home pointing to some familiar resources such as Google Docs, Google Scholar, and Google Book Search and some less well-known tools such as Goog-411, Cooking with Google, and GrandCentral
Dictionary adds new batch of words at CNN.com-including pescatarian, mondegreen, and more (I find mondegreen to be particularly enjoyable as I’ve experienced more than a few of these in my time)
Free Sounds to Relax Your Brain Or Improve Concentration Levels post about I Dose Sounds that are available for various purposes by Digital Inspiration
Getting Started with Social Media - A Guide and Resource List a how-to posted over at Technotheory (thanks to iLibrarian for the link)
Google Launches Lively to Create a Virtual World Across Social Networks Mashable’s take on Google’s new virtual world offering
And, yes, I realize the new iPhone 3G was released this week, but you can read news about that from a plethora of other sites should you so choose…
Enjoy the day!
