Latest Library Links, October 3, 2014

News from ALA and the profession

October 3, 2014

American Libraries Online

Tracking Ebola in Liberia

ALA News

2014 revision of RDA

Division News

New resource for school library conversations

Awards & Grants

Apply for a Will Eisner Grant

College of New Rochelle receives $4 million ED grant

Libraries in the News

Texas State Library wins funding battle

Library of Congress staff reductions

LC discovers newsreel of 1924 World Series

San Francisco branch renamed for Linda Brooks-Burton

Architecture, ornament meet in Norfolk’s new library

Issues

Librarians won’t stay quiet about government surveillance

Making college affordable

10 things you should know about scholarly communication

Tech Talk

Find the perfect laptop

Welcome to Windows 10

Designing web accessibility

From mixtape to iPod to … what now?

E-Content

Harlequin signs exclusive deal with Scribd

The mess of ebooks

LC wants you, and your file format ideas

The POWRR of digital preservation

Books & Reading

Five books to build a movement for education justice

Book Riot launches a new comics website

Hispanic Heritage Month: A YA reading list

Find a new female comic or graphic novel artist

Six novels that will destroy your good mood

How to get over a fictional death

23 quotes from books that hit the big screen

Tips & Ideas

The Library Freedom Project

Free webinar: Wikipedia and libraries

Color coding in the library

New OCLC report on electronic content discovery

School librarians open their wallets

Hugging a medieval book

Left Behind: The medieval version

Book bugs and their traces

All about the books, no trouble: Nashville PL (video)

 

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