Latest Library Links, October 20, 2014

News from ALA and the profession

October 20, 2014

American Libraries Online

Michigan supports school libraries

Another Story: Just curious

ALA News

Hangout with the ALA presidents: Get involved with ALA (video)

Alice Hoffman to speak at Midwinter

Midwinter marketing tips with Ben Bizzle

Sign up to present an Ignite Session at Midwinter

ALA webinar on workforce funding

Hope Operas support FTRF

Division News

2014 Teens' Top Ten titles announced

Sari Feldman to kick off LLAMA webinar series on leadership

Awards & Grants

Dollar General renews its support for Beyond Words grants

Apply for a Carnegie-Whitney grant

Philippines National Children's Book Awards

Libraries in the News

Omaha mayor wants library's privacy policy changed

Chattanooga's weeding plan irks some users

River Forest offers book deliveries by bicycle

Boy Scout builds cellphone booths for Fairbanks library

Toni Morrison papers go to Princeton

Issues

The Georgia State e-reserves reversal

Vendor agreements are not always privacy-friendly

Appreciating Open Access advocates

A state-by-state map of the minimum wage

Tech Talk

Never download a driver-updating utility

E-Content

Amazon's new Kindle Voyage

Winthrop University ebook survey

E-learning in the library

The Stanford ePADD project: Archiving emails

Books & Reading

UK names its first comics laureate

The Book of Secrets and other nonexistent books

If Shakespeare wrote in JavaScript

Tips & Ideas

Concept-mapping tools for visual learners

The Parent-Child Home Program

 

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