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Fran Bullington

librarycampground - home - 44 views

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    This wiki showcases practical ways that librarians can incorporate the ever expanding world of Web 2.0 technology into library related lessons and activities.
Natalie Lorenzi

Win a Skype visit from middle grade author Lynda Mullaly Hunt - 0 views

Middle grade novel ONOE FOR THE MURPHYS just came out this month and has already received a starred review from Kirkus. Author Lynda Mullaly Hunt is giving away a free Skype author visit, class set...

Skype author visit reading promotion books

started by Natalie Lorenzi on 18 May 12 no follow-up yet
Anne Weaver

Wyatt's World: Creating RA Trilogies for Readers - Library Journal Reviews - 12 views

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    With authors such as Anthony Horowitz and P.D. James picking up the threads of past masters, it is a good time to think about creating RA trilogies for readers. By daisy-chaining new, classic, and backlist titles, you can link through your collection and start patrons on threefold reading paths
Robin Cicchetti

Ultimate Reading List - 39 views

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    400 high interest titles from Teenreads.com. Consider for inclusion in summer reading lists or for a reading incentive program.
Robin Cicchetti

The Business Case for Reading Novels - Anne Kreamer - Harvard Business Review - 14 views

  • in fMRI studies of people reading fiction, neuroscientists detect activity in the pre-frontal cortex — a part of the brain involved with setting goals — when the participants read about characters setting a new goal. It turns out that when Henry James, more than a century ago, defended the value of fiction by saying that "a novel is a direct impression of life," he was more right than he knew.
  • they discovered "a significant relation between the amount of fiction people read and their empathic and theory-of-mind abilities" allowing them to conclude that it was reading fiction that improved the subjects' social skills, not that those with already high interpersonal skills tended to read more.
  • It's when we read fiction that we have the time and opportunity to think deeply about the feelings of others, really imagining the shape and flavor of alternate worlds of experience.
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    Data on the benefits of reading fiction.
Kimberly Brosan

1 Tool at a Time: Build Your Toolbelt - home - 0 views

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    Webinars from ISTE's SIGMS that focus on tools for you to use in your professional practice.
Deven Black

Facsimile Dust Jackets L.L.C.: Home Page - 11 views

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    35,000 facsimile dust jackets for perusal and sale.
lisa oldham

Reading for Joy | People for Education - 20 views

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