Latest Library Links, February 11, 2015

News from ALA and the profession

February 11, 2015

Using graphic novels in education: March: Book Two
Using graphic novels in education: March: Book Two

American Libraries Online

Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service in D.C.

ALA News

Revised Standards for Accreditation approved

Webinar on E-Rate application process

Social media for creative libraries

Midwinter Meeting News

Read the Midwinter highlights issue of Cognotes

Reflections of a first-timer

Division News

ALSC launches advocacy button campaign

ALSC to host Online Day of Diversity Forum

Awards & Grants

2015 In the Margins Book Award list

2015 Ezra Jack Keats Book Awards

Wikipedia cofounder wins 2015 Dan David Prize

Upcoming NEH grant opportunities

Libraries in the News

How Chicago Public School officials decided to ban Persepolis in 2013

Yale Law Library loans out sleds and shovels

Dallas Public Library helps teens find prom gowns

Cal State to install a shared management system for all 23 campus libraries

Germany returns rare books stolen from Italian libraries (more here, in German)

Syrian “monuments men” race to protect antiquities

Issues

Wi-Fi Innovation Act reintroduced in Senate

Comics creator Dylan Horrocks visits the Charlie Hebdo site

The case for internet access in prisons

Prison librarian brings education to Nassau County correctional facility

Tech Talk

College of San Mateo Library Makespace

How to hold a successful conference call on your iPhone

E-Content

The case of the disappearing academic ebook subscription package

OverDrive adds popular magazines and Disney videos

Koha and EBSCO partner

Video game archiving and preservation

Books & Reading

Harrowing YA climate fiction

Booklist‘s #bookvalentines

25 painfully unrequited love stories

Using graphic novels in education: March: Book Two

Ruby is latest Oprah’s Book Club selection

Tips & Ideas

NMC Horizon Report: 2015 Higher Education edition (video summary)

Student work practices studied at a community college

LC receives papers of composer Marvin Hamlisch

Cold Storage: A glimpse inside the Harvard Depository

An introduction to the NYPL Digital Collections platform

Correspondence in the Veterans History Project collections

Webinar: How to promote your financial education program, February 18

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