Friday updates for this week include getting kids to read, a neat photocopy machine, Nixon library fights back, short stories removed from reading list, no more stuffy library, library ruckus, the new Carnegie, word surfing, and much more.
Friday updates for this week include getting kids to read, a neat photocopy machine, Nixon library fights back, short stories removed from reading list, no more stuffy library, library ruckus, the new Carnegie, word surfing, and much more.From the Press Republican
Chazy Library uses bags of fun to coax early literacy
\”A 5-year-old girl with smiling eyes, bouncing blonde curls and a black Winnie-the-Pooh tote bag climbed the steps to Chazy Public Library with a purpose.
Amanda Tucker had her eye on the purple Pooh tote bag on Librarian Francie Fairchild’s desk. She would return the black alphabet bag and take home the purple counting bag.\”
From Philly.com
Copier keeps books in shape
\”The BookScribe is ideally suited to law offices, libraries, accounting firms or any place with old ledgers and antiquated hardbacks – especially those that are falling apart at the seams. A single top-down scan allows for a separate print of either left or right page or a double-page spread on a single sheet.
From CNN.com
Nixon Library disputes book charges of wife-beating and drug use
\”The Nixon Library issued a statement Sunday dismissing as \”ridiculously irresponsible\” claims made in a biography to go on sale Monday that the former president took a mood-altering drug and beat his wife.
From Dallas News
Short stories taken off school\’s reading list
\”A collection of short stories by a well-known American author has been removed from an Opelousas Catholic High School reading list by the bishop because the work included derogatory references to blacks.\”
From the Straits Times
If you think it\’s a stuffy old library, look again
\”PARENTING, gardening and self-help books might soon be placed in the children\’s section of libraries to encourage families to make the most of their visits\”.
From the Savannah Morning News.
Shhh! Youth raise after-school ruckus in Bull Street Library
\”Books, boys and air conditioning — what teen-ager could ask for anything more in a library?
\”There\’s a lot of this and a lot of that going on,\” said Tchanavian Smith, 15, as she and a group of four other girls left the library. \”Some people come to study, some come to see the boys, some do a little of both.\”
From the Chicago Times.
IF THIS WORKS, IT CAN LITERALLY CHANGE YOUNG LIVES
\”There doesn\’t seem to be an Andrew Carnegie around these days — so it\’s up to us to be our own Andrew Carnegies.\”
From Journal Now
WORD SURFING: N.C. library system plans to get readers online
\”Budget cuts in Cumberland County and elsewhere have meant local libraries can buy fewer books, but a state experiment with online books may fill the reading-material gap.\”
From USA Today
Typeface clears screen for better content
\”In his work in the Microsoft eBooks group in Redmond, Wash., senior researcher Bill Hill tried to figure out why computers were doing such a poor job of displaying type that people want to read for long periods.\”
From CTnow.com
A Boost Into Modern Day
\”Ask First Selectman Neil Dupont what the hours are at the town library, and he can\’t resist a quip: “It depends on how strong the kidneys are of the librarian.\”
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