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New Tumblr blogs from the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) and the Digital Public Library of America are now online. The DPLA Tumblr blog is currently online (subscribe now) but the first post will not go live until next Tuesday (Feb. 11, 2013). The BPL blog has been online for the past couple of weeks and feature “treasures” […]
From a Joint News Release: LightSail Education, a provider of K-12 digital literacy solutions, today announced an exclusive partnership with Baker & Taylor. Now schools using LightSail adaptive literacy platform will have access to Baker & Taylor’s KnowledgePoint content management solutions and their portfolio of hundreds of thousands of digital books. In addition, Baker & […]
Excellent Choice! Judy Blume Named Honorary Chairman of National Library Week 2014
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, National Libraries, News
|From ALA: Judy Blume has been named the 2014 Honorary Chair of National Library Week (April 13-19, 2014). This year, National Library Week will be celebrated with the theme Lives change @ your library. As Honorary Chair, Blume will appear in print public service announcements (PSAs) promoting National Library Week. The PSAs, developed by the […]
Calumet City, IL is a southern suburb of Chicago located on the Illinois/Indiana border. The proposed change to the school policy follows a new Illinois state law involving student use of social media. We also have info about the law in this post. From NWI.com: Students of the Thornton Fractional Township District 215 high schools […]
As you’ll read, Recorded Books owns other companies well-known to the library community including OneClick Digital, and is the distributor of Zinio to libraries. From the Announcement: Wasserstein & Co., LP on behalf of its private equity fund Wasserstein Partners III, has acquired all of the assets of Recorded Books LLC one of the leading […]
Here’s a new report released today by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center. From the JGCC: What do parents really think about the educational value of their children’s screen media use? A national survey of more than 1500 parents of children ages 2-10 by The Joan Ganz Cooney Center finds that more than half of parents […]
From LC: A new interactive game, called “Readers to the Rescue,” is now available on the Library of Congress’s reading-promotion website,www.Read.gov. Its interactive nature interests anyone keen about online games. They can choose more online games at https://sickodds.com/lol as well. The game, developed by students at the Laycock Center for Creativity & Collaboration at Brigham […]
Simon & Schuster Expanding Library Ebook Pilot, Full Catalog of S&S eBook Titles Now Available to Select Libraries Through OverDrive
Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
|UPDATE: 10am (Jan. 16, 2014): We’ve updated this post with some additional facts. You’ll find them at the bottom of this post. From OverDrive and Simon & Schuster: Simon & Schuster and OverDrive today announced a pilot launch of the Simon & Schuster eBook catalog for select OverDrive partner public libraries in the United States. Simon & Schuster’s full catalog of eBook titles are available for […]
Texas Legislature Restores $7.5 Million in Public Library Funding
Archives and Special Collections, Funding, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
|The $7.5 million restores about 1/4 of the approx. $30 million in funding that was cut by the legislature during 2011. the From an Op-Ed in the Alice Echo News-Journal by State Representative, J.M. Lozano: One outcome of the 83rd Legislature was to restore $7.5 million in critical funding for libraries in the areas of digital content, […]
Smithsonian Libraries Launches Three Courses on iTunes U, More Courses Coming Soon
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, School Libraries
|From the Smithsonian Institution: The Smithsonian Libraries today launched three courses of selected content on iTunes U that focus on topics in early aviation and space history. This release increases exposure of Libraries material and is an innovative way to reach new audiences. Three of the Libraries’ courses are available now: The Great Moon Hoax […]