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ALSC recommends more Great Websites for Kids The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, has added more sites to Great Websites for Kids, its online resource containing hundreds of links to exceptional websites for children. The newly added sites are: Creative Kids Central - http://classicalkusc.org/kids/ Frontiers for Young Minds - http://kids.frontiersin.org/  Harry Potter Alliance - http://thehpalliance.org/ Latinos in Kid Lit - http://latinosinkidlit.com/about/  Ocean Portal - http://ocean.si.edu/  Optics for Kids - www.optics4kids.org/  Paka Paka - www.pakapaka.gob.ar/ Periodic Table of Elements - http://pt.kle.cz/en_US/index.html Planet D - www.diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes/parents-and-kids/everyday-life/  Plaza Sésamo - www.plazasesamo.com/  Quarked! Adventures in the Subatomic Universe! - www.quarked.org/ Semillitas de aprendizaje - www.rif.org/kids/leadingtoreading/...

Five Tips to Starting Your Own Online Book Club by APRYL FLYNN GILLISS 1. Do your research. Sacramento (Calif.) Public Library’s Amy Calhoun advises those who want to start an online book club to research what other library groups and popular non-library groups are already doing online and implement the features that generate the most interaction. “Offering an online option allows us to cater to people who prefer the convenience of participating from home without a set schedule or who simply feel more comfortable interacting online than face to face,” she says. 2. Add an online component to an existing book club. Consider existing structures, groups, and opportunities in which you might add an online component, suggests Lauren Lampasone, a digital producer for New York Public Library. “If you have a solid community on Facebook that is interested, use that rather than Google+ (or vice versa),” she says. “If you have patrons who complain about not being able to attend your ...

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Library Bill of Rights The American Library Association affirms that all libraries are forums for information and ideas, and that the following basic policies should guide their services. I. Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation. II. Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval. III. Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment. IV. Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas. V. A person’s right to use a library should no...

UpClose: Designing 21st-Century Libraries | Library by Design By Peter Gisolfi Public libraries are busier and more popular with patrons than ever. Today’s library is a place for social interaction as well as quiet reading. It is a community cultural center, not simply a repository for books. It is a welcoming building with a design focus on transparency, not a series of isolated spaces. ELEVEN EMERGING TRENDS It is often difficult to recognize changing trends while they are still in flux. That said, consider the typical characteristics of today’s 21st-century library. While the library remains an inspiring public building with an important civic presence, many other aspects are different: An informal community cultural center Transparency among spaces so patrons can be seen and more easily served Reading spaces interspersed within the various collections Larger and more varied spaces for children and teens Community, meeting, and activity rooms of varied sizes Dayligh...

U.S. Navy Launches NeRD, a Security Enhanced E-Reader By  Matt Enis The U.S. Navy General Library Program (NGLP) last month announced the release of its new Navy e-Reader Device (NeRD), which comes preloaded with 300 titles including popular fiction, recent bestsellers, and content from the Chief of Naval Operations Professional Reading Program. The new e-ink readers were designed by preloaded digital content provider Findaway World (perhaps best known in the library world for its Playaway) and are the first devices to feature Findaway’s new “Lock” ereader security solution.

Transmedia and Education: How Transmedia Is Changing the Way We Learn by Carolyn Sun Transmedia, a broad descriptive word that literally translated means “across media” and encompasses many strategies that transverse industries, is generally regarded as the use of multiple media platforms to tell a story or story experience. Though the word “transmedia” is thought to have entertainment franchise origins, its adaptation for education purposes is both valuable and becoming more and more common. While teachers like Sansing are using coding and programming in their language arts instruction, others are taking advantage of increasingly sophisticated apps and interactive media for classroom use. http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2014/06/featured/many-ways-tell-story-transmedia-transforming-education-classrooms/