Library & Literary Miscellany Links of the Week
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Gearing Up for All Together Now post by Michael at Tame the Web announcing the All Together Now: A 2.0 Learning Experience. This learning experience opportunity looks to be somewhat akin to the Library 2.0 experiences previously offered by the Public Library of Charlotte Mecklenburg County, so if you didn’t get in on those, you might want to check it out.
Libraries are Going to Make it After All video at You Tube (thanks to American Libraries Direct this week for the link)
Library Application Program Interfaces (APIs) post by Roy Tennant providing a FYI list of generally useful library-related APIs
Library Day in the Life Wiki: wiki enabling librarians to share experiences of being a librarian; check it out to see how the experiences of your day compare with others in the same or different area of librarianship (thanks to American Libraries Direct this week for the link)
Web Services and Tech Training presentations post by LibrarianinBlack, Sarah Houghton-Jan including I Wanna Be 2.0 Too!: Web Services for Smaller Underfunded Libraries and Technology Training and Competencies
Literary
Books featuring Child Geniuses post over at the Children’s Literature Book Club listing some titles along with discussion of how the kids starring in these books view the world
If You Like Captain Underpants: Related Books for Students (BOOKLIST) article in Choice Literacy by Franki Sibberson from A Year of Reading with apt suggestions such as Roscoe Riley Rules
Get Ready to Stand on Your Soapbox by Chasing Ray reminding members of the kidlitosphere that next week will be as good a time as any to pontificate eloquently about issues today with the publishing world
Lost Book Club at ABC.com offers a roundup and place for discussion of all the books mentioned throughout the LOST episodes (thanks to Jen Robinson’s Growing Bookworms Newsletter for the link)
No Rich Kids Need Apply by Liz B at A Chair, A Fireplace, and A Tea Cozy digs into issues of class in YA lit
Savvy for Free post at Kids Lit providing links to the e-book of Ingrid Law’s Savvy.
The Publication History of Stuart Little: Fusenews: Anne Carroll Moore Does Not Love Stuart Little* and The Monkey Speaks: Where modern children’s literature (and librarianship) came from and The Shifted Librarian: Corrupting Young Minds (with Books) in the Library (these discussions point to and discuss an article in the New Yorker article The Lion and the Mouse: The battle that reshaped children’s literature by Jill Lepore)
This Week’s Rundown Draft at the Reader’s Advisor Online Blog points to interesting lists such as August’s Indie Next
Miscellany
17+ Things to Do with your Online Photos by iLibrarian includes ideas such as create an Animoto music video or a LetterPop Newsletter
A Look at the iPhone 3G by Elyssa at iLibrarian
Another Article About Those Darn Bloggers by Liz B. at A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy pointing to and discussing the article debating print vs. online reviewing Is it curtains for critics? from The Observer
Google Docs has templates (thanks to Nicole at What I Learned Today for the heads up)
The Free Dictionary: a word lover’s delight by Jane over at infodoodads points to a potentially useful reference tool for fielding language and pronunciation questions called The Free Dictionary
How To Handle A Blog Attack at ACRL Log
Five Best File Syncing Tools compiled in a Lifehacker Hive Five post
JibJab Debuts its Election Video Carnival for 2008 embedded by Paul Glazowski with commentary over at Mashable
MMO Games for Change? over at Mission to Learn offers links to a past post about games promoting social change and more commentary on the same
Outlook vs. Gmail The Definitive Comparison in a Lifehacker Faceoff
