Library & Literary Miscellany Links of the Week
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7 Ways Your Public Library Can Help You During A Bad Economy a post filed under frugality over at the Consumerist listing, well, seven pluses to using a library but you’ll find many more additional suggestions in the comments…most positive (thanks to LibrarianinBlack for the link)
The 25 Most Modern Libraries in the World list from BestCollegesOnline.com broken up by architecture, technology and innovation, and digital collections
Copyright talk: Copyright in education, part 1: Fair use and Copyright in education, part 2: Transformative use over at Instructify (I’ve seen the Fair(y) Tale Use video mentioned in part two before but I enjoy it every time)
Experienceology: Seeing Your Library as if for the First Time over at Infoblog discusses the basics of creating the library experience
Program Planning: Online Brawl Tournaments by Joseph Wilk over at the YALSA blog provides insight into some of the ins and outs of hosting a gaming tourney with teams composed of teens from libraries in different cities
Literary
ARCs and Soapboxes by Colleen over at Chasing Ray provides the scoop on the week’s soapbox postings
Blog Central: Kidlitosphere FAQ by Anastasia Suen already answers quite a few questions and points to a variety of resources and will likely offer more in the future (thanks to Fuse 8 for the link)
On YA Lit this Week: Soapbox Day#1: We’ve got reactions and opinions and Margo Rabb, YA and why this issue is more complicated then you might think by Colleen at Chasing Ray, It’s Still Not Easy Completely Missing the Point by Carlie at Librarilly Blonde responding to the two recent YA lit stories in Newsweek, and YA Author Sets Her Characters a’Twittering over at Galleycat about YA author Jennifer Banash’s creation of Twitter microblogs for three of her characters
On Gender in kidlit this week: Boy Books Girl Books at A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy
E-Book Central by Theseus’s Posterous provides a mega-list of links to resources offering free e-books
Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers by Tom at Omnivoracious with a thorough round-up of adult titles reviewed by big name newspapers and magazines last week
QuickPicks: Historical Fiction that Doesn’t Seem Like Historical Fiction by Library Voice with some recommended titles for engaging readers with historical fiction
Top 10 Lists over at Big A Little A is a post of links pointing to recent Top 10 lists relating to various aspects of children’s literature over at The Guardian
Miscellany
7 Things You Should Know About Wii (pdf) by Educause as part of the “7 Things You Should Know About…” series
Top 10 Printable Paper Productivity Tools over at Lifehacker points to some paper-saving, productivity tools
30+ Tools for Synching Files and Folders by Aseem Kishore over at Mashable
