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A report, released by American Library Association (ALA) President Molly Raphael, regarding meetings with e-book distributors during the Public Library Association (PLA) Conference, March 13 - 17.

Teens and their parents can find similar titles to "Mockingjay" in the 2011 nominations for YALSA's Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults (PPYA) booklist, particularly the What If… themed list, which highlights titles featuring alternative history and worlds, steampunk, apocalyptic fiction and cyberpunk, among other settings.

Annotated list of resources for slms

keep up with ALA - photos and tweets.

Collections include Archives, Digital Libraries, E-Books, Geneology & Local History, Government Documents, Maps

To help meet a growing need, the ALA's Digital Content & Libraries Working Group was formed in Fall 2011 to implement the recommendations and to continue the work of ALA's Task Force on Equitable Access to Digital Content. Working Group members were selected by the ALA President based on their high level of expertise and range of experience regarding libraries and digital content, and are broadly representative of the various constituencies within the Association and library community. This website is meant to be a resource to support libraries in their transformation from print to digital content

This is a wiki about using Web 2.0 tools. Joyce Valenza and others will be presenting info on this at the ALA conference this weekend.

New guidelines for school library media centers.

According to this, filtering of the Internet at schools must be disabled at the request of an adult.

750 videos posted during banned books read-out

Slides from a presentation by Kristin Fontichiaro