Library & Literary Miscellany Links of the Week
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). I’m actually thinking that this will be the last official Library & Literary Miscellany Links of the Week. I was hoping that these posts would be of use, but I haven’t really heard any feedback verifying this. But I will continue posting interesting finds on my Tumbleblog from here on out, so they’ll still be available just in a different way. Enjoy!
Library
Current Cites this month: Google Still Not Indexing Hidden Web URLs; Copyright Renewal, Copyright Restoration, and the Difficulty of Determining Copyright Status; Federated Search 101
Fair Use Resources by Mathew at Creating Lifelong Learners offers a few places to visit to learning more about fair use
Knowing The Mind Of The User contemplates elements involved in positioning our libraries to showcase what we do and what we offer users by Steven B. at Designing Better Libraries
Online Book Clubs at Libraries by LibrarianinBlack Sarah Houghton-Jan links to a couple of examples for taking book clubs online
Resurrecting Reference: the conversation continues! post over at Infoblog summarizing an Infopeople webinar and providing a link to the archived webinar
Literary
Books for Phonics Instruction - Accomplishing More Than Just Sounding Out Words article in Choice Literacy Magazine (thanks to A Year of Reading for the link)
Edward vs. Jacob: The Great Twilight Debate (featuring Eisha and Dana in the first ever 7-Imp Smackdown): yes, this is a pre-Breaking Dawn release article about the series characters in general, but it’s still well worth a read. You may also want to check out some of the many post-release reviews on the blogosphere such as the Booklist Online review and Bookroomreview’s review. Lastly, here’s a link to a follow-up post about fan response to the book and Meyer’s response to the fans entitled Stephanie Meyer Responds To Criticism: It Hurts by bookroomreviews.
IndieNext August Titles: list of books to watch for in August from IndieBound
My Say: When YA Might Not be Okay by Sarah Stevenson in which she tackles ways to approach situations in which young kids are “reading up” and encountering books that have mature themes
Oprah Kids Reading List: which began giving recommendations August 01 (thanks to Big A Little A for the link)
Literacy Debate: spurred by an article in the New York Times–Literacy Debate - Online, R U Really Reading? - Series - NYTimes.com–the first in a series of articles about how social and technological factors are impacting/changing the way we read. The debate spread across the blogosphere last week; a couple of interesting response are found at Librarilly Blonde with Carlie’s post Fanfiction: The future of literacy and Maybe We Should Spell it “R3@ding” by Keir over at Booklist Online
Man Booker Longlist announcement (the Longlist includes works such as Tom Rob Smith’s Child 44 and Steve Toltz’ A Fraction of the Whole…plus 10 more)
Online Swap Meets for Books by Mary Pilon at the Wall Street Journal
Spinal Exam by Lisa over at Under the Covers points to and discusses other articles that delve into the hows and whys underlying the book jackets/cover art in young adult literature
Top Ten Food Scenes in Children’s Literature: another top-notch top 10 list from The Guardian
Miscellany
25 Sites to Experience the Beijing Summer Olympics by Sean P. Aune at Mashable
30+ Solutions to Start Your Own Wiki by Sean P. Aune at Mashable with a roundup of choices for your next wiki
Barkley the Cat by David K. Israel at the Mental_Floss Blog: he asks us “Why are Cats so Darn Popular on the Internet” and then produces a video starring Barkley the Cat (thanks to Big A Little A for the Link)
Creating Student Accounts Using One Gmail Account by Sue Waters at the EduBlogger
Cuil: Have you tried a Cuil search yet? You may or may not want to after reading such posts as A “Cuil” New Way to Search by Daniel A. Freeman over at ALATechSource Blog, Cuil - The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google by Stan Schroeder at Mashable, Cuil: Good, But Not Great by Frederic Lardinois atReadWriteWeb, and How To Lose Your Cuil 20 Seconds After Launch by Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch
File Extensions Reference: reference source for information on many file types along with the “how to” for opening the files
PlayCrafter Lets You Play and Create Casual Games (The Startup Review) by Paul Glazowski at Mashable reviews PlayCrafter, a startup with drag-and-drop features that make it worth looking at for those looking for easy ways to create games
Quote This: 11 Resources for Word Lovers by Doriano “Paisano” Carta at Mashable
Tools to Help You Celebrate Birthdays Online list of celebratory tools compiled at the Go2Web2.0 blog
The Lifehacker Editors’ Favorite Software and Hardware view this post to find out what the Lifehacker editors like to use
Simple Tools For Creating Screen Captures by Sue Waters at the EduBlogger outlining the use of tools such as Kwout, Picnik, Skitch, Jing, and Snagit to meet your screen capture needs
Wikipedia: who, what, how, and so on by amercer over at Instructify discusses some of Wikipedia’s strengths and weaknesses along with an embedded video of the development of the Wikipedia article for the 2005 London Train Bombing
