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While the battles, uniforms, and weapons that made up a World War I serviceman's life are very well documented in the history books, the day-to-day monotony of a soldier's life doesn't often get as much attention. The ALA Archives has recently migrated our collection of digitized lantern slides from World War I into the CONTENTdm system, which shows one way these men filled their downtime: reading.

Digital Special Collections of the American Museum of Natural History's Research Library provides access to our rich collections of digitized archival photographic images, art and memorabilia images and Rare Book Collection illustrations

A discussion about the implementation of e-books in the St. Andrew's College libraries. It follows the journey that they took to arrive at the solution that suited them.

Jonathan Stroud, author of the Lockwood & Co. book series - answers Fan Questions - YouTube Published on 14 Nov 2014

"Quiet in libraries is no longer the chief value. Instead, makerspaces are bringing books to life, and the new mantra is, "Innovate, create, collaborate." Many media specialists still struggle with this transformation from silent reading space to innovative makerspace; with that in mind, I interviewed six women who seamlessly flow from rockin' librarians to Creative Directors of Making in the same day to ask how they do it."

Article written by James W. P. Campbell. He has travelled the world together with Will Pryce the architectural photographer, visiting and photographing 85 of the world's greatest libraries in 21 countries. He now has written a book The Library: A World History (Chicago University Press), which he claims is the most complete account of library buildings to date.

Beautiful examples of blackout poetry

To assist with motivating readers this site offers some printable reading logs that can be coloured in as books are read.

Guidelines for "Pets caught reading photography contest" This one was for National Library Week

"From writing advice to reading recommendations, we get up close and personal with some of the finest creators of Young Adult (YA) literature in the country. The Centre for Youth Literature connects Australia's young adults with books, stories and writing. Creatively produced by the Centre for Youth Literature in partnership with the Melbourne Writers Festival. YA Writers: Myke Bartlett, AJ Betts, Isobelle Carmody, Cath Crowley, Ellie Marney, Richard Newsome, Alice Pung, Penny Tangey, Carole Wilkinson, Lili Wilkinson, and Claire Zorn"

"The school library has changed the main focus from providing books providing a place for students to practice skills like creative thinking and collaboration."

26 August 2014 - South Australia. Focussing on children birth - 3 years.

"10 activities to use with any nonfiction book or other informational text. The goal was to get kids more engaged in reading. They are simple but effective and could be adapted in a variety Of ways.