Kevin Bondelli’s YD Blog posted “80 Online Resources For Book Lovers”:
Social Networking for Book Lovers
1. LibraryThing is probably my favorite book-related resource on the web. I use it to catalog my personal library, as well as discover new books, find people with similar reading interests, discuss books, and more. Membership is free for a library […]
From Wikipedia:
Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American writer and cartoonist best known for his classic children’s books under the pen name Dr. Seuss, including The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. His […]
Hey v, I’m sure by now you’ve read The Boston Globe’s cover business article yesterday about digitizing children’s books at the Boston Public Library. I couldn’t help thinking about you while I learned about the efforts to digitize rare, old, and fragile children’s books from the collection in order to share them online via the […]
With the recent news showing declines in people reading books, someone in the book group I’m in shared this almost unbelievable story about a man reading an entire book. I thought some of you might enjoy it, though I’m sure by now it’s circulated through all the relevant discussion lists.
(Mind you, the source is known […]
The Boston Globe has a gallery featuring New England bookstores, including a photo of the Montague Bookmill—books you don’t need in a place you can’t find (or something like that). Time your trip to Montague just right and you might as well go to the contradance in Greenfield.
While digging through a stack of newspapers last night, I discovered the December 30 comic Opus by Berkeley Breathed gives a common and amusing take on ebooks.
The first issue of the Code4Lib journal is now out:
“This mission of the Code4Lib Journal is to cover “the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future.” We hope that this journal can be one more contribution to the developing culture of collaboration around library technology, and we welcome you to join in our experiment.”
Beyond OPAC […]
*hangs head in shame*
Banned Books Week is probably my favorite library holiweek. I can’t believe I completely forgot about it this year. Someone mentioned Go Ask Alice a few days ago. After I confessed that I hadn’t read it (yet), my brain reminded me that it’s often high on lists of challenged books and perhaps […]
Front page news on The Boston Globe (so it must be true): People are reading less. David Mehegan tells us about a National Endowment for the Arts study about reading habits (.pdf) indicating the decline in people reading for pleasure continues. It seems that if children don’t read for pleasure, they don’t magically start the […]
The director of the Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University, Maryanne Wolf, ponders at what point children should be introduced to online tools in a Boston Globe piece.
"More specifically, in the expert reading brain, the first milliseconds of decoding have become virtually automatic within that circuit. It is this automaticity that allows […]