Archive for January 12th, 2004

Bookstores Could Use Better Organization

Monday, January 12th, 2004

As I was wandering around a sizeable bookstore tonight, not finding what I was looking for or anything really related to it, I analyzed my thought process trying to figure out why I couldn’t find it. . . .

2004 News Division Student Stipend for SLA Annual Conference

Monday, January 12th, 2004

Applications are now being accepted for the Special Libraries Association News Division’s Vormelker-Thomas Student Award, the stipend given to a graduate student or December 2003 graduate interested in news librarianship to help defray the cost of attending his/her first Special Libraries Association Annual Conference.
Applying may sound like a lot of work, but the pool of […]

Desktop Book Binder

Monday, January 12th, 2004

National Public Radio’s Morning Edition talked about a book binder a man invented that’s about the size of a desktop printer. The show focused on its utility for out-of-print books and on-demand printing, complete with the scenario of someone going to a local bookstore and paying for the clerk to print a specific title right […]

Children’s Book Awards Announced Today

Monday, January 12th, 2004

The 2004 winner of the John Newbery medal is Kate DiCamillo, author of “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread.” Mordicai Gerstein, illustrator and author of “The Man Who Walked Between the Towers,” won the Randolph Caldecott Medal for illustration.
Several honor books were […]


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