Latest Library Links, December 3, 2014

News from ALA and the profession

December 3, 2014

ALA News

Take the Digital Inclusion Survey by December 12

40 students chosen for 2015 Student to Staff program

Midwinter Meeting News

ALCTS symposium on collection development strategies

Three LITA workshops

Awards & Grants

How the Newbery Medal came to be

Apply for a Talk Story grant

2014 Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives grants

2014 Tower Hamlets Book Award

Libraries in the News

Maine man returns book overdue for 65 years to Spokane high school

Unpublished Raymond Chandler work discovered at LC

Guardian readers' love letters to libraries

Issues

Censorware and spyware at Wayzata High School

What happens when facts challenge our beliefs

Tech Talk

High school girls build kick-ass robots

Xbox One and PlayStation 4 compared

Agile development: Pros and cons

Image search and analysis emerge as powerful tools, threats

Someday you could touch a hologram

E-Content

Apple defends raising ebook prices

Comparing formats for video digitization

What's next for e-textbooks?

Books & Reading

New York Times Notable Children's Books of 2014

10 best books by academic publishers in 2014

Big books for a long winter's night

12 pop culture cookbooks

Tips for adults on buying books for teens

Book-buying habits of Canadians

Teaching Syrian stories

Middle Eastern comics battle extremism

Tips & Ideas

TNT's The Librarians premieres December 7

TNT asked ALA for adventurous librarians: We gave them six

Think like a librarian: It might save your life (video)

How the librarians saved Christmas (video poem from Hoopla)

Five useful tools for YouTube enthusiasts

Survey report: Teacher librarians and digital games

Critical and indigenous research methodologies

Integrating the Academic Libraries Survey into IPEDS

Networking for introverts

World's oldest doodle discovered

Lego version of UC San Diego's Geisel Library (video)

 

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