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Filming Flipped: An Interview with Director Rob Reiner

Rob Reiner with stars Madeline Carroll and Callan McAuliffe on the set of Flippe
Official poster for Flipped.

The feature film Flipped, directed by Rob Reiner and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, opens in six cities (New York, Toronto, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, and Indianapolis) August 27. Based on the 2001 YA novel by Wendelin Van Draanen, the film flips back and forth in showing the thoughts and feelings of two protagonists, 8th-graders Bryce and Juli (played by Callan McAuliffe and Madeline Carroll) as they develop crushes on each other, though not exactly at the same time.

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IFLA in Gothenburg, Day 6: The Mechanics of Making an International Organization Tick

ALA delegates Molly Raphael, Keith Michael Fiels, James Neal, Roberta Stevens.

Everyone knows that the real IFLA action is in the divisions, sections, and committees; for that reason, the August 14 General Assembly of the 76th World Library and Information Congress in Gothenburg, Sweden, was short and sweet. The assembly made a swift hour’s work out of a series of reports and resolutions that concern the inner workings of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.

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IFLA in Gothenburg, Day 5: Exhibits, Programs, Networking Are All about Language

The exhibit hall at IFLA in Sweden.
IFLA translators in their isolation booths.
Attached to the Gothenburg Public Library, the IFLA Night Spot was sponsored by

During one of the IFLA sessions here in Gothenburg, Sweden, I took a seat in what turned out to be a lousy place for the acoustics. Major programs during this year's World Library and Information Congress were largely in English, which is a second language to most Swedes, but listening to speakers of other languages communicate in English is like listening to a stunning variety of dialects, each with its own quirky set of accents and grammatical gymnastics.

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IFLA in Gothenburg, Day 4: Haitian Librarians Describe Destruction, Acknowledge Assistance

Françoise Beaulieu-Thybulle (left) and Elizabeth Pierre-Louis

On January 12, 2010, a devastating earthquake turned an ordinary day into a day of horror and destruction for Haiti. On the fourth day of the 76th General Conference and Assembly of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions August 13, in Gothenburg, Sweden, two Haitian librarians came forward to tell their stories and communicate face-to-face with various international organizations and individuals who want to help with the recovery.

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IFLA in Gothenburg, Day 3: Partnerships, Awards Include Gates $1 Million to Greece

IFLA President Ellen Tise (center)  looks on as Ismail Serageldin and Jennefer N
Deborah Jacobs of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with Ioannis Trohopoulo

Day three of the World Library and Information Congress of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) was a day of awards, honors, and the announcement of new partnerships.

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IFLA in Gothenburg, Day 2: Opening Event, Swedish Style, with Jan Eliasson

Jan Eliasson

It began with the guitar stylings of Thomas Andersson, crested with a keynote address by Jan Eliasson, former president of the 60th session of the United Nations General Assembly, and ended with a get-up-and-dance happening to the music of Sweden’s most famous pop singers Abba. In between, the opening ceremony of the 76th General Conference and Assembly of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions also featured warm welcomes from the leaders and organizers who made the conference happen.

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If You Google Net Neutrality, What Do You Get?

There’s been no dearth of opining in the past few days about the implications of Google and Verizon banding together to “find ways to protect the future openness of the internet and encourage the rapid deployment of broadband,” which is how a joint policy statement between the two firms is being framed by Alan Davidson, Google director of public policy and Tom Tauke, Verizon executive vice president of public affairs, policy, and communications.

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Librarians Urged to Get Back to Basics

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Roland S. Martin

Librarians and libraries should join with parents and other family members in “going back to the basics,” Roland S. Martin told the audience during the August 8 closing session of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s seventh National Conference of African American Librarians in Birmingham, Alabama. “When I look at the breakdown of black life, I fundamentally believe that it is because we have gotten away from the basics.”

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