K-12Librarians

As a conclusion to Banned Books Week 2010, Random House USA has been posting author's thoughts on censorship, along with much other useful material on their First Amendment First Aid Kit pages. 'In their own words' features Judy Blume, the late Robert Cormier, Zilpha Keatley Snyder and Lois Lowry commenting on censorship and their novels:

A daily "paper" of some of the best links shared on Twitter for TLs!

"Content curation is the ongoing finding and sharing of relevant digital and non-digital content about a specific topic for a specific audience. Typically, this content will come from a variety of properly credited sources and will be collated in such a way that the collection will be more useful than its individual elements."

Results that came in for (npr books') 2012 summer's Best-Ever Teen Fiction poll. A whopping 75,220 voted for their favorite young adult novels.

Beautiful collection artwork depicting: reading, books, imagination...

The students at the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Women's University have created for many trailers for the Printz Award winners and Honor Books dating back to 2000.

Downloadable citations poster

Open Culture has a collection of 150 free textbooks from Art History to Physics and Business. Stay tuned for more additions

Bookboon provides free online textbooks for students in PDF format. A range of subjects are available, and content is presented at a university level.

10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports

There's nothing new about curating the news and aggregating content. It's always been part of the role of journalism, selecting and presenting information, and editors have always done it. Aggregation is not curation. Aggregators pull together, and allow you to assemble, news from a variety of sources in one place. Those that also curate the news spotlight stories and often package content based on algorithm and/or the work of editors (ie there's some type of judgment involved and usually context created).

"The Story. An epic adventure that will change the way you look at Shakespeare forever. In this dark tale, the Bard's most famous heroes embark upon a journey to discover a long-lost soul. Hamlet, Juliet, Othello, Falstaff, Romeo and Puck search for a reclusive wizard who may have the ability to assist them in their battle against the evil forces led by the villains Richard III, Lady Macbeth and Iago."

Joyce Valenza'a excellent response to Dr. Bernstein's suggestion that in this Internet age, Governor Cuomo eliminate the antiquated requirement that all high schools have at least one full-time librarian and a minimum number of books.

It is an interesting programme which is trying to investigate how children actually use digital books. It is hoped that the research will help school librarians and teachers to adjust to the way in which pupils use E-books.With lots of resources, information, tips and news, this is an interesting site to peruse.

Part Two of 2 recent posts on Penguin's Between the Lines site traceing the fascinating journey of a cover, in this instance Kirsty Eagar's Saltwater Vampires. You can see the final product here, the outcome of a lengthy process with many drafts discarded before selecting this as the one.

The blog of the author of the Skulduggery Pleasant books

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.