K-12Librarians

For ten years now, LJ's Movers & Shakers has been spotlighting librarians and others in the library field who are doing extraordinary work to serve their users and to move libraries of all types and library services forward. They hail from all corners of the library world and several nations. Nominated by their colleagues, friends, bosses, and just plain admirers, they are just the tip of the iceberg. We know there are many more Movers out there, making libraries better and taking them into the future.

The Internet Archive, in conjunction with 150 libraries, has rolled out a new 80,000 e-book lending collection today on OpenLibrary.org. This means that library patrons with an OpenLibrary account can check out any of these e-books. The hope is that this effort will help libraries make the move to digital book lending. "As readers go digital, so are our libraries," says Brewster Kahle, founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive

@RWW "imagine, if you will, a publishing company - oh, let's say HarperCollins - telling libraries that after checking out a book a certain number of times - oh, let's say 26 - that they've reached the cap on loans. The book can no longer be shared, and libraries need to return the copy or buy the book again. Sound crazy? Well, that actually is the new policy for HarperCollins, reports Library Journal, detailing the new terms for its e-book loans via OverDrive, the main e-book distributor for libraries.

BTFA was created by Teresa Schauer, a district librarian in South Texas. Whilst creating book trailers she also discovered there wasn't really a place online to find and share other free book trailers, so decided to create BTFA.

The official site of author Beth Revis who writes science fiction and fantasy novels for teens. Her debut novel, Across the Universe, launched from Penguin/Razorbill on January 11, 2011. Across the Universe is the first of a trilogy.

The blog of the author of the Skulduggery Pleasant books

What better place to discuss tough issues than in a class with a teacher and peers?

'Natalia' has created a Google Map of the locations mentioned in Leviathan.