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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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Ingram Launches On-Demand Journals Program
Ingram Content Group will provide publishers with the tools to manage their print journals “from file set-up to print on demand to delivery.”
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Toronto Libraries Go to the Ball
Booklovers Ball expected to raise more than C$500,000 for Toronto Public Libraries.
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Building Momentum for Little Free Libraries
It’s been four years since international business consultant Todd Bol constructed a wooden replica of a one-room schoolhouse, filled it with books, and mounted it on a post in his front yard in a suburb of metropolitan Minneapolis, Hudson, Wis., in tribute to his late mother.
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Should Booksellers Enter the School Library Business?
At last fall's regional trade shows, Mrs. Nelson's Toy and Book Shop and Turtleback Books each made the case that indies could and should offer a broader range of educational services aimed directly at school librarians, and subsequently took steps to make it happen.
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For Libraries, the Common Core Presents Extraordinary Opportunity
The Common Core was a hot topic at the ALA midwinter meeting in Seattle, specifically at a standing-room only "discussion group" where more than 80 librarians gathered to learn more about the new state standards, and to share their own experiences thus far.
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Why Do Dragons Look Like That?
Marie Brennan's A Natural History of Dragons is a novel with some fine art from Todd Lockwood to boot. Brennan talked about the book's illustrations and how they fit into the book's narrative.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of February 4, 2013
This week, Maurice Sendak's final book, body snatchers, and two books of poetry. Plus: a Woody Guthrie novel edited by Johnny Depp.
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The 7 Weirdest Sex Stories of the Ancient World
How depraved were the people of the ancient world? Let's just say that "erotic salads" were involved.
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