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Martha Hickson

2012 Best of BookUp Selections, Sponsored by Bloomberg, The National Book Foundation - 11 views

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  • Martha Hickson on 22 Jun 12
     
    Best of BookUp Selections, a summer reading list straight from the source: our BookUp students! We asked the students at all six sites in New York City and Texas to vote on their top two favorite books read in BookUp during the 2011-2012 year.
Allison Burrell

NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children - 17 views

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  • Allison Burrell on 20 Nov 13
     
    "The world of children's literature contains a variety of genres, all of which have appeal to the diverse interests of children as well as potential for classroom teaching. In recent years, however, nonfiction or information books have emerged as a very a
Anne Weaver

http://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/100_great_childrens_books.pdf - 21 views

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Anne Weaver

BBC - Culture - The 11 greatest children's books - 19 views

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  • Anne Weaver on 03 Apr 15
     
    The books that first make us fall in love with reading stay with us forever. BBC Culture polled critics around the world to decide the best reads for kids.
beth gourley

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories - 0 views

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  • The man shrugged and replied, �In a year, the king may die. In a year, I may die. In a year, the horse may talk!�
  • Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
  • connects the information people and the story people
  • ...23 more annotations...
  • May 15, 1924 issue of Library Journal, Helen E. Haines wrote about contemporary fiction
  • It offers constant problems and perplexities
  • strong role in domesticating
  • Booklist, Bill Ott, likes to say that librarians are divided into information people and story people
  • Librarians, historically, have been at the place where new formats and new technologies happen to people in their daily lives.
  • Plato was concerned that the new-fangled idea of writing stuff down would dilute scholarship and make men lazy
  • even the best of writings are but a reminiscence of what we know, and that only in principles of justice and goodness and nobility taught and communicated orally
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      beth gourley on 15 Apr 08
       
      I thought perhaps she would extend the You-Tube example back to the oral and getting away from the written word
  • change is our only certainty
  • argued between those who consider all fiction foul or useless and those who see no harm in it at all
  • Jamie Larue, director of the Douglas Public Library in Castle Rock, Colorado, calls librarians �the keepers of the books, the answerers of questions, and the tellers of tales.
  • Our job is to keep ideas and make them available.
  • Le Guin's words remind me of is how important it is to keep ideas that we do not comprehend, or believe in, or agree with; to keep them safe, and to keep them available. If librarians don't do this, who will? There is no other profession enjoined to preserve and disseminate all the truths of humankind that is our job.
  • also need to remember that some ideas thought worthless today may turn out to be the bedrock of tomorrow's truths
  • available not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas and silly ideas and yes, even dangerous and wicked ideas.
  • librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas
  • readers need to have available to them truth in all its myriad guises, light and dark, easy and difficult
  • core values of librarianship are access and service
  • always like to mention a few books that I think my audiences would enjoy
  • Susan Patron's The Higher Power of Lucky.
  • Ann Bausum's With Courage and Cloth
  • Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel
  • nformation person and a story person
  • Technology is our campfire. Change is what happens:
  • beth gourley on 15 Apr 08
     
    ©2007 GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido MLS
Elease Franchini

Track your Fiction Book Series - FictFact - 27 views

www.fictfact.com

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  • Elease Franchini on 08 Sep 11
     
    The site is designed to help you read fiction book series in order. It is easy to find out which book is next with a custom list based on your favorite series!
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