Latest Library Links, January 30, 2015

News from ALA and the profession

January 30, 2015

Paper books will never die
Paper books will never die

Midwinter Meeting News

And so it begins

Top tweets for Thursday

Snowed in at Chicago’s 1978 Midwinter Meeting

Librarian lost in McCormick Place since last ALA conference (satire)

Division News

ALSC kicks off advocacy button campaign

Awards & Grants

22 ideas win the Knight News Challenge: Libraries

All about the Pura Belpré Awards

Children’s Choice Book Awards adds three new categories

2015 Paddy Power Political Books Awards

2015 Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation

Libraries in the News

Chicago needs more school librarians

Issues

Trust in academic publishing

What’s the matter with threshold concepts?

Tech Talk

Confessions of a systems librarian

The best free password managers

The new pleasures of photo printing

Healthy alternatives to your office chair

10 things Android had before iOS

E-Content

FCC extends waiver of e-reader accessibility requirement

ProQuest Ebook Central will combine ebrary and EBL

Trajectory aims to improve book discovery

Use your ebook reader to read more deeply

Books & Reading

Paper books will never die

10 YA retellings of Beauty and the Beast

36 stunning book tattoos

Tips & Ideas

Riding the British Library’s newspaper robot (video)

English grammar apps

A new kid-friendly Vine

Take a survey on LIS professionals’ acceptance of MOOCs

Where did the @ symbol come from?

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