Latest Library Links, December 10, 2014

News from ALA and the profession

December 10, 2014

American Libraries Online

AL Live, December 11: Connecting patrons to quality information

ALA News

We can haz cats! ALA's newest Pinterest board features library cats

Workshop: Reinventing the library for online education

Workshop: New sources of revenue

Wisconsin Library Association was born 123 years ago

Midwinter Meeting News

ASCLA Institute on using comics to promote literacy

Division News

ACRL publishes Owning and Using Scholarship

Alternative teaching models and student info literacy development

Immersion application deadline extended

Awards & Grants

ALA awards deadline extended

2014 American Dream Starts @ your library grant recipients

2014 Ernest J. Gaines Award

Libraries in the News

New Birmingham (UK) library drastically cuts hours, staff

LC apologizes for "egregious lapse" in Twain book

Hanover County (Va.) makes teachers get permission for controversial books

Appoquinimink (Del.) makes students get parents' permission to read anything

Temple University unveils plans for new library

Burst pipe destroys thousands of school library books in Idaho

Issues

White House announces $1 billion in early-ed grants

Millions of student records sold in bankruptcy case

Clash in the stacks: The pace of academic library change

Tech Talk

Virtual Machines in a nutshell

Five ways to grow your digital fluency

The 10 best Chromebooks

When the computer mouse was new

E-Content

The rise of digital poster sessions

Capstone tests bundled kids' ebooks

The promise and problems of the visual ebook

Books & Reading

51 of the most beautiful sentences in literature

The best memoirs of 2014

Fantasy writers of color are on the rise

Binge-reading YA series

The difference between librarians and archaeologists

Tips & Ideas

Flipped Learning toolkit: Let's talk tech

Writers-in-residence at the public library

Follett Challenge deadline set for January 9

Middle school makes bookmarks for children in Mali, Peru, and Nepal

How to participate in the Students Rebuild Literacy Challenge

What we talk about when we talk about archives

 

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