Part 1 of the two Part School Library 101 tutorial is now available.
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Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that libraries would be established at union council level to promote book-reading habit in the society and ensure availability of quality books.
Chairing a meeting in this regard here Wednesday, he said that seminars would also be organized at divisional level in order to seek proposals of teachers, parents and intellectuals for strengthening education sector.
Ellyssa Kroski, who writes at iLibrarian, also teaches a class at San Jose State University on the Open Movement and Libraries (Fall of 2008). As part of the class shes has done interviews with such notable figures as Stephen Downes of the National Research Council in Canada, and Nicole Engard of LibLime. Her guest a couple weeks ago was Jimmy Wales. You can hear the full 10 minutes interview with Jimmy Wales here.
There’s another new language site out on the web, called Busuu. This one with a little bit of a twist in that it incorporates a social aspect to the site.
Via Lifehacker here’s a brief bit of info about it:
Language education site Busuu emphasizes the social side of learning a language. While Busuu has standard components such as vocabulary exercises with audio and writing units to test out your composition, the most interesting aspect is its ability to connect you with both people learning your language and native speakers of your language. You’re learning Spanish and someone else is learning English.
A quick look shows it is a relatively simple service and a good way to get an introduction to a new language. By no means is it comprehensive, but with the social aspect theres a chance to connect to others and go beyond the basics.
Federal officials have dismissed a complaint against the Barrington Public Library by a man with Tourettes Syndrome. Richard Pacheco was ejected from the library last February due to his involuntary outbursts. Federal officials ruled Pacheco did not have the right to disrupt the public library, since he did not ask for a quiet area.
Let’s junk the myths and celebrate what we’ve got: Jeff Jarvis takes it as personal failure, not keeping everyone’s eyes focused on the future. Suddenly, we’re spinning our wheels in the present or sliding back to the past, missing the chance to explore and exploit our new reality. Once and for all, he’d like to respond to these fears and complaints. They won’t go away. He addresses the “honourable curmudgeon” concerns, and provides some “glass half full” answers.
Disruptive Library Technology Jester pulls out Extracts from the Thomson Reuters Lawsuit Against Zotero: The critical bits (to an untrained eye) are included along with links for further reading.
Jessamyn pointed to This One by Judah Hamer, president of the Vermont Library Association.
Librarians are entrusted with protecting the private information of thousands of innocent community members who use library computers. When law enforcement officials believe they need access to information, it is their responsibility to seek the approval of a judge who can make a rapid, impartial decision about constitutional matters that protect all of us: due process, probable cause and privacy.
From Guardian UK:The London home of the UK publisher of a controversial new novel “The Jewel of Medina” that gives a fictionalised account of the Prophet Muhammad’s relationship with his child bride, Aisha, was firebombed yesterday, hours after police had warned the man that he could be a target for fanatics. A petrol bomb is believed to have been thrown through the door of Martin Rynja’s £2.5m town house in Islington’s Lonsdale Square, which also doubles as the headquarters of his publishing company, Gibson Square. Three men were arrested.
The book was originally to be published in the US by Random House, who later withdrew it’s offer to author Sherry Jones. It will be published next month in the US by Beaufort Books, a small press that also published “If I Did It”.
Rynja commented, :”I was completely bowled over by the novel and the moving love story it portrays,’ he said earlier this month. ‘I was struck by the careful research of Sherry Jones, who is a journalist with almost 30 years of experience, and her passion for the novel’s characters. I immediately felt that it was imperative to publish it. In an open society there has to be open access to literary works, regardless of fear.”
A flood destroyed the Cedar Rapids (IA) Library in June. But there’s a plan to rebuild, and reader Eudora Seyfer is looking forward to the prospect of returning to a place that’s she always loved.
She writes, “My hometown, suffered a devastating flood. Much of our downtown remains vacant, most of our city buildings and museums are empty shells, and many streets are still lined with condemned homes awaiting demolition. My condo home, high on a hill on the outskirts of town, escaped the raging water, but actually no one in Cedar Rapids escaped the flood. In myriad heartbreaking ways, all of us grieve for some missing part of our lives. For me, it’s life without the library.
If you rarely use your library, you won’t understand how I feel. You would probably tell me to buck up and concentrate on our many “people problems.” But for me, it’s not that easy. The library is a gentle haven, a quiet shelter from life’s busyness. All my life, it has been where I go when I’m looking for inspiration and wisdom and energy and joy – and I always find what I need. ” Lovely personal story from CS Monitor.
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