If you’re a little confused about what the $787 billion economic stimulus bill just signed by President Obama means for school and public libraries, there’s a new Website that hopes to clarify things.
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Without a strong grasp of the way users engage information, publishers and librarians stand to lose their audience. That was the message driven home by presenters at the recent O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference (TOC).
Nothing warms a librarian’s heart more than another book award list, and on Valentine’s Day kid lit bloggers announced the winners of the Cybils (Children's and YA Bloggers' Literary Awards), which started three years ago by bloggers Anne Levy and Kelly Herold.
Beth H. Krush, best known for collaborating with her husband on illustrations for the American edition of Mary Norton’s The Borrowers series (Puffin 1953-1971), died on February 2 in Bryn Mawr, PA. She was 90.
Many teachers and librarians still don’t recognize the power of graphic novels in learning—and three librarians from the Buffalo-Erie County Public Library in New York are hoping to change that.
NONFICTION MATTERS Marc Aronson, AUTHOR, EDITOR, PACKAGER, SPEAKER, February 18, 2009 Reviews?
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ROCKWELL, Anne. Open the Door to Liberty!: A Biography of Toussaint L’Ouverture. illus. by R. Gregory Christie. 64p. bibliog. CIP. Houghton. 2009. RTE $18. ISBN 978-0-618-60570-5. LC 2007025746.
Gr 5-8–Toussaint, born a slave in the French colony of St. Domingue, led the first successful slave uprising in the Americas in 1793, defeating first the French and then the British and American opportunists who hoped to take advantage of the new country.
Children from the Ideal Montessori School in Jamaica, Queens, help at Monday's ceremonial groundbreaking for the new $38 million Children's Library and Discovery Center at the Central Library. The new center will replace the Children's Room and will feature rotating interactive science and math exhibits.
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