Latest Library Links, December 16, 2014

News from ALA and the profession

December 16, 2014

American Libraries Online

Referenda Roundup 2014

ALA News

ALA receives NEH grant for Latino Americans: 500 Years of History

Ben Bizzle: Start a revolution

Preservation from antiquity to the Digital Age

Midwinter Meeting News

Think Fit @ ALA

Division News

2015 Teens' Top Ten book groups

Webinar: Making difficult conversations effective

Awards & Grants

Nominate someone for the Immroth Award

Deadline extended for some RUSA awards

Libraries in the News

Kentucky Appeals Court considers library funding lawsuits

Yale to launch a Digital Humanities Laboratory

St. Paul mayor vetoes city council effort to expand library hours

Council Bluffs library will get a makerspace through a Google grant

Winchester Cathedral's search for eight missing Bible pages

Iran's National Library concerned about manuscripts in collections abroad

Issues

Support the E-rate program

Nine traits of good digital citizenship

ARL's key accomplishments in 2014

Tech Talk

How to create bulk emails in Outlook 2013

Top 10 desktops under $500

Six technologies that will change PCs in 2015

The quickest way to install Windows software

How to see a list of all installed Windows drivers

E-Content

Ebook price-fixing appeal went well for Apple

Apple wins class-action iPod lawsuit

Workflow dynamics of digital media preservation

Books & Reading

Sometimes the best book is an app

Counting down to Into the Woods

Brown women of comics

The A.V. Club's favorite books of 2014

15 bookish tree ornaments

Budapest's book stations

Tips & Ideas

Freer and Sackler galleries to release Asian art digital collection

Family and Work Institute seeks library input

Catching up on current YA research

10 school librarians to follow on Twitter

200 more librarians to follow on Twitter

Everything you need to know about Wikipedia

Google News Archive returns under "search tools"

How to identify a Facebook scam

Four ways to use Canva in your library

The academic librarian as interpreter

Archival rehousing projects

A new library for Bellows Falls, 1908

 

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