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Rosen Publishing Debuts $3,000 EveryLibrary Funding Challenge
EveryLibrary, a political action committee that works in support of library funding issues in local elections, announced that educational publisher Rosen Publishing has established a $3,000 fundraising challenge that will last through August 31.
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Follett to Offer Random House E-books to School Libraries
Under the arrangement Follett’s school library e-book customers can access more than 36,000 titles published by Random House imprints and the publishers it distributes.
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How to Land a Library Job
I don’t claim to be an expert in much, but when it comes to securing a library job I’ve got hard-won advice worth sharing.
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Developing Collections ‘By Any Means Necessary’
Some call it multicultural, some call it Africana, some call it a “special collection.” PW spoke with librarians about collecting materials for and by African-Americans for public, school and academic libraries.
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EveryLibrary Works to Help Libraries Raise Funding
EveryLibrary.org is a library political action committee founded by former ALA membership director John Chrastka that focuses on helping local libraries win local elections that have critical library funding issues on the ballot.
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Pew Survey Shows Power of Print
Despite their comfort with technology, most young Americans still read and borrow printed books, and value libraries and library services.
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New AcademicPub Service Adds Library Content Deals
AcademicPub Custom College Plus, an automated legal coursepack service, is now offering Off The Shelf, a service that allows schools to integrate standing content licensing agreements into the AcademicPub service.
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2013 Library of the Year Award Goes to Howard County Library System
Maryland's Howard County Library System has been named 2013 Library of the Year by Gale and Library Journal.
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Checking Out Romance: Focus on Romance 2013
It's a love match between librarians and romance publishers.
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Small Towns, Broad Tastes: Focus on Romance 2013
Smalltown cozy romances often portray quiet communities where a chaste kiss is looked on as something shocking, but readers in actual small towns are considerably more open-minded, picking up everything from Amish romance to kinky erotica.
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How Graphic Novels Became the Hottest Section in the Library
According to old stereotypes, it shouldn’t work—serious librarians should want nothing to do with the raucous, pulp world of comics—and for a long time it didn’t.
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So You Think You Want to Be a Librarian?
Most people’s knowledge of librarianship is a mash-up of Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in Desk Set, some warm and fuzzy memories from an elementary school class visit, Rupert Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, even fuzzier memories of all-nighters in their college libraries, and maybe a high-minded article or two about the Digital Public Library of America.
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Pew Report: Parents Depend on Libraries to Nurture Reading Habits
The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project reports, in its latest study, that "fully 94% of parents say libraries are important for their children, with access to books at the the top of library services." The report continues: “Libraries," parents say, “help inculcate their children’s love of reading and books.”
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S&S Offers E-Book Lending, Purchase Via New York City Libraries
The one-year pilot program with the city's three library systems will make the complete Simon & Schuster e-book catalogue available for unlimited checkout during that period.
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Meet Your Makers
When the Boston Public Library—the first free municipal library—opened its doors in 1854, its mission was to create an “informed citizenry”—think the works of John Stuart Mill, or Cicero in translation.
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Give ’em What They Want?
In his last column, Brian Kenney did a good and fair job of outlining the Douglas County Libraries e-book model, in which we host and manage our own digital content. Yet, his conclusion was a little puzzling.
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Conference Report: Beyond PDF 2
Academic results have been bundled into journals to facilitate their sharing since 1665, noted attendees at the recent Beyond PDF 2, conference, in Amsterdam. But the Web has brought with it an opportunity to blow up and remake academic publishing.
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Giving Them What They Should Want
Judging by the crowded sessions at the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting last January in Seattle, e-books remain the most contested topic among public librarians.
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Promoting Literacy and Opening Libraries in Africa
The African Library Project – a nonprofit organization that coordinates book drives to build libraries in African nations – celebrated a significant milestone in January by sending its millionth children's picture book to Africa.
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Columbia University Acquires Complete ‘Elfquest’ Comics Archive
Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired the archives of Wendy and Richard Pini’s Elfquest, a popular fantasy comic book and graphic novel series first created in 1978.
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