Latest Library Links, February 17, 2015

News from ALA and the profession

February 17, 2015

Princeton receives bequest of rare books worth $300 million.
Princeton receives bequest of rare books worth $300 million.

American Libraries Online

Digital books take flight in airports

ALA News

Apply to host a Latino Americans: 500 Years of History program

The newbie’s guide to hosting a Día program

Workshop: How to respond to a security incident

Annual Conference News

Sarah Vowell to be an Auditorium Speaker

Division News

Public libraries: Participate in the annual PLDS survey

ASCLA course: The reader-friendly library

Free webinars on smart investing

ALCTS seeks a monograph editor

Awards & Grants

Brian Schottlaender wins Hugh C. Atkinson Award

Diversity Research Grant proposals now accepted

Deadline extended to April 3 for Sara Jaffarian Program Award

Academic Friend Conference Grant deadline extended to March 20

Libraries in the News

Princeton receives bequest of rare books worth $300 million

A new mobile library for San Francisco’s Panhandle

Kentucky public libraries saw unprecedented use in 2014

The learning commons model at the International School at Dundee

CU-Boulder libraries tread water in the face of journal price increases

Employee arrested for stealing from Russia’s Hermitage Museum library

Issues

Update on the Email Privacy Act

New book on why people challenge reading materials

Information literacy in the wild

Is Google making the web stupid?

Worldwide threats to political cartoonists

What is a librarian?

US teens getting less sleep

Net neutral?

Tech Talk

Understanding browser security warnings

Five best budget computer monitors

How to automatically upload photos from your digital camera

E-Content

The Fifty Shades of Grey paradox

A Library for All in Haiti

Digitization at the Bodleian Library

British Library expands its Endangered Archives

Books & Reading

The hottest and coldest children’s book categories in 2014

10 books that changed the face of black history

For Mardi Gras: YA books set in New Orleans

Genre guide: Graphic memoirs

Nontraditional superheroes

Defining the end of the world

65 popular romance novels

National Book Foundation’s BookUp (infographic)

Tips & Ideas

Make the bulletin board your patrons’ first stop

How to get the most out of Pinterest search

Children’s lit and tech blogs to love

10 good Google Docs, Sheets, and Forms add-ons for teachers

Create diagrams with LucidChart

Canadian Freedom to Read Week, February 22–28

A wooden library postcard, Redlands, California, 1905

When Jesus was Judas: Famous historical bible typos

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