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Rhondda Powling

Internet Archive Partners With 150 Libraries to Launch an E-Book Lending Program - 4 views

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    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
Alison Hall

YouTube - Press Display demo - 2 views

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    Thanks to Public Library Services and SA's public libraries, anyone with an SA public Library card can now access full 'page-by-page turning' electronic versions of the Advertiser and the Australian for free. www.libraries.sa.gov.au
Rhondda Powling

ALA President Molly Raphael releases report on e-book talks with e-book distributors | American Libraries Magazine - 0 views

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

What To Do When Kids Aren't Allowed To Read Digital Books in School | Scales on Censorship | School Library Journal - 2 views

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    Ebooks outlawed in class. The September issue of School Library Journal addressed not one, but two reader issues pertaining to digital access by K-12 students. Pat Scales, chair of the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee, has dealt with many a book challenge and attempts to ban Library materials. In her column, "Scales on Censorship," she addresses situations faced by readers. But "this is the first I've encountered in which a book's format has been censored," she writes.
Rhondda Powling

Trends Aside, Libraries Support Student Content Creation Now | Horizon K-12 Report | School Library Journal - 0 views

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    "The annual Horizon report, released June 29 by the nonprofit New Media Consortium, examines the trends and technologies that will shape primary and secondary education over the next five years. It references libraries as being at the forefront of maker spaces, which are among 18 major trends that include the rise of STEAM education: the intersection and importance of science, technology, arts, engineering, and math. The Horizon Report broke down challenges to school technology adoption into three categories: "solvable," "difficult," and "wicked," representing a range of difficulty to implement over the next five years. The "solvable" problems reflect what many libraries are already doing, like focusing more on blended learning and STEAM. The "wicked" problems were far more dramatic: shifting toward deeper learning approaches and rethinking the role of school itself."
Roland Gesthuizen

School library has every trick in book - Local News - News - General - Illawarra Mercury - 6 views

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    "The days of being shooshed in the library are well and truly over at The Illawarra Grammar School. After a $1 million facelift, the school's staid old library reopened this week as a bright, open space where children are allowed to draw on walls, watch TV, play games, gather to chat, or wander around on their own while listening to stories on headphones."
Rhondda Powling

ASLA - School library policies and statements - 0 views

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    Policy Statement - School Library Bill of Rights. School libraries are concerned with generating understanding of freedom and with the preservation of this freedom through the development of informed and responsible citizens. The responsibility of the school Library is .....
Peter Ruwoldt

Some Simple Thoughts About Libraries | Trapped By Monsters - 2 views

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    Stop moaning about saving libraries and use that creative energy to embrass the new and better ways and find cheaper and more effective ways to do what librarians do. Brilliant.
Rhondda Powling

101 Blogs About Schools, Books, & Libraries - 4 views

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    100 blogs about school libraries, educational thinking and books
Roland Gesthuizen

HarperCollins forces libraries to re-buy ebooks - Holy Kaw! - 0 views

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    "In the search for revenue lost to the burgeoning ebook market, HarperCollins has found some deeeeep pockets from which to grab that cash: The public library."
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    Forcing libraries to rebuy ebooks after 26 loans because that is how fast a paperback wears out? Crikey, what about an eBook version of one chisseled out of a marble slab?
Rhondda Powling

YALSA announces 2013 Teens' Top Ten Nominations | American Libraries Magazine - 0 views

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    " The nominees for the annual Teens' Top Ten have been announced today in honor of Celebrate Teen Literature Day by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). Nominations are posted every year on Celebrate Teen Literature Day during National Library Week. This year, the nominee list features 28 titles that were published between Jan. 1, 2012 and Dec. 31, 2012. The nominees can be found below on the Teens' Top Ten website www.ala.org/teenstopten and on the new teen friendly Teens' Top Ten website http://www.ala.org/yalsa/reads4teens.
Rhondda Powling

Makerspaces, Participatory Learning, and Libraries | The Unquiet Librarian - 3 views

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    "The Library as Incubator Project describes makerspaces as: Makerspaces are collaborative learning environments where people come together to share materials and learn new skills… makerspaces are not necessarily born out of a specific set of materials or spaces, but rather a mindset of community partnership, collaboration, and creation."
Tania Sheko

New: "Key Issues for e-Resource Collection Development: A Guide for Libraries" (Full Text, Free) « INFOdocket - 2 views

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    Electronic resources represent an increasingly important component of the collection- building activities of libraries. "Electronic resources" refer to those materials that require computer access, whether through a personal computer, mainframe, or handheld mobile device. They may either be accessed remotely via the Internet or locally. Some of the most frequently encountered types are: E-journals E-books Full-text (aggregated) databases Indexing and abstracting databases Reference databases (biographies, dictionaries, directories, encyclopaedias, etc.) Numeric and statistical databases E-images E-audio/visual resources
Andrew Jeppesen

WorldCat.org: The World's Largest Library Catalog - 2 views

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    WorldCat connects you to the collections and services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide
anonymous

Bright ideas - 0 views

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    Bright ideas is a blog by SLAV where school library staff can share ideas on how they can use Web 2.0 tools in their library
anonymous

» About Bright ideas Bright ideas - 0 views

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    Bright ideas is a blog by SLAV where school library staff can share ideas on how they can use Web 2.0 tools in their library
Rhondda Powling

The Glamis Hub - 2 views

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    Strathmore Secondary College library have recently set up their own library blog
John Pearce

QR Code Quest: a Library Scavenger Hunt | The Daring Librarian - 0 views

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    "I remixed this awesome scavenger hunt originally created by Joyce Valenza and added a QR Code Twist! I re-worked some of the questions for a lesson with my adorable ESOL kids (we have 35 right now in our ESOL program & one cute be-freckled girl just came yesterday & speaks no English at all but she LOVED scanning the codes when I handed her my Droid Fascinate!) The rest of the kids have varying degrees of English proficiency but still will benefit from a few visual clues. So the scavenger hunt questions are intentionally simply & clearly worded combined with pics I created as QR Code Hints. You can also use this lesson for special needs classes, Library Media orientation, or even re-mix the questions, QR Codes, & hints for just about ANY subject area! To create the hints I used a combination of Photoshop, Flickr, bit.ly and my favourite QR Code generator, Kaywa."
Rhondda Powling

ML: Macaulay Library - 2 views

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    The Macaulay Library is the world's largest and oldest scientific archive of biodiversity audio and video recordings
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