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It gives us great pleasure to announce the four winners of the 2011 Video Competition. All videos were posted by their creators on YouTube, and we provide a link to them, below

OverDrive Hopes So "Don't just think public libraries, which have had challenging times with the financial downturn and fiscally stretched municipalities. Add to the picture K-12 school libraries, colleges and universities libraries, corporations, and institutions such as the military. And think international."

Jennifer Bromman-Bender, librarian at Lincoln-Way West High School (New Lenox, IL) and author of several books on booktalking, including R&L's Booktalking Nonfiction: 200 Sure-Fire Winners for Middle and High School Readers (2013), spoke about how to present nonfiction books to middle- and high-school students. She also gave a presentation of some of her most popular booktalks. Katie Mediatore Stover of the Kansas City (MO) Public Library (and author of several ALA Editions RA titles) was up next, with a ton of practical advice on how to booktalk informally-while in the stacks, or out in the community. She also discussed how to pull out the best elements of a book in order to sell it to a reader. Kaite incorporated a lot of RA tips (talking about tone, mood, warning the reader what to expect) on how to do what she calls a "bookmercial." Becky Spratford, author of ALA Edition's Readers Advisory Guide to Horror (2012) and librarian at the Berwyn (IL) Public Library, gave advice on how to get your staff comfortable with booktalking, and why booktalking is so important. Becky then finished up with a selection of her favorite horror books for booktalking.

22.03.13 | Bookseller Staff Goblinproofing One's Chicken Coop has been named as the winner of Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. Philip Stone, The Bookseller charts editor and Diagram Prize administrator, said: "People might think the Diagram Prize is just a bit of fun, but it spotlights an undervalued art that can make or break a work of literature. Books such as A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time all owe a sizeable part of their huge successes to their odd monikers." And then there's my favorite, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and others in Alan Bradley's series.

Debbie Macomber is among the best and largest selling romance novel and contemporary women's fiction. Debbie Macomber was the inaugural winner of the fan-voted Quill Award for romance novels. Visit onlinebookplace.com for all ebooks of Debbie Macomber.

Blogs covering topics relevant to school libraries and K-12 education, including reviews of children's and YA literature. Other issues discussed include, but are not limited to, educational technologies, digital learning, early literacy, librarian-teachers, e-reading devices in the classroom, learning strategies, teens and reading, etc. Blogs listed with a include 2010 and 2011 finalists and winners.

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