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Greenpoint Poetry Sites (GPS) Public Art Project Goes Live
This is a screenshot from the mobile website for the first release of the Greenpoint Poetry Sites (GPS) project, something I’ve been working with a wonderful group of librarians, eduactors, designers and writers. I blogged about a fun site-specific project involving QR codes a while back, and I’m absolutely thrilled to show it off now [...]
More Monsters
The YA Buzz Panel during Book Expo detailed some of the hot new books for young adults (most out in the fall), no surprise that many of the titles focus on vampires, monsters, scary fantasy worlds and the like. Here’s the list: Lips Touch: Three Times – Laini Taylor (Arthur A. Levine Books) The Devil’s [...]
eBooks Coming To Your Smart Phone?
The Librarians as Digital Divas panel during BookExpo tackled the best way to provide service to customers using digital devices. In opening comments, a speaker noted that digital devices are becoming less expensive and opined that people will become more accustomed to using their smartphones for everything, including reading, the next step in the evolution [...]
A Quieter BEA
This year’s BookExpo reflected the ongoing national economic issues as well as those within the publishing industry, smaller booths, less advance reading copies, fewer giveaways, and lighter traffic. While I heard ALOT about the newest books, I wasn’t able to find even one advance reading copy (ARC). It seems they were gone almost as soon [...]
New Voices Telling New Scary Stories
Hearing a lot about Monster Lit/Urban Fantasy at this year’s BEA. Apparently Stefanie Meyers and the Twilight series has opened the door back up and reawakened tremendous interest in the subject. At yesterday’s day of dialog, a panel discussed this hot genre. Panelists included authors Cassandra Clare (City of Bones), Anton Strout (Dead to Me), [...]
BookExpo! NYC
Day One – Well actually day two, as I was here yesterday and was actually able to catch some programs despite LaGuardia Airport delays. Anyway, with its new(ish) emphasis on helping librarians feel at home here, there are many, many events and programs for librarians at BookExpo America (BEA). Yesterday, I caught the second half [...]
Leave Libraries Alone
Great pro-library piece by Kenneth C. Davis From May 8, Huffington Post. Davis is the author of America’s Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation. He is also the author of the “Don’t Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About…” series.
Information Commons 2.0, Hyde Park NY
Last Thursday I attended the day-long SENYLRC symposium: “Information Commons 2.0- Lessons Learned and Moving Forward” at the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park, NY. Here’s a link to the pdf of the program. Here’s the wiki. I went to this conference with Brooklyn Public Library colleagues Richard Reyes-Gavilan (Central Library Director) and Jesse Montero [...]
A Day at the Massachusetts Library Association Conference
This morning, I took a trek over to Springfield, MA for the Massachusetts Library Association Conference where I spoke for a little while about some of the programs I did back when I worked at the Bushwick Branch of Brooklyn Public Library. I spoke about focusing the collective expertise of your community, user-generated collections, and [...]
Helping High School Students Become ‘College Ready’
Received info about this ALA Annual Meeting event from Mitchel Fontenot: On Sunday, July 12, immediately following the LIRT Conference Program, “Preparing Yourself to Teach: Touching All the Bases,” there will be an informal brownbag discussion from 12-1:00 sponsored by the LIRT Transitions to College Committee. Discussion will focus on issues, ideas and opportunities for [...]
