Latest Library Links, October 27, 2014

News from ALA and the profession

October 27, 2014

ALA News

Early Bird Midwinter rates end at noon Central time, October 31

Policy Revolution! and COSLA in Wyoming

International Mentoring Pilot Program, 2014–2015

Division News

LLAMA webinar: A new model for academic interviews

LLAMA webinar: Core competencies for assessment

Awards & Grants

2014 Edinburgh International Book Festival’s First Book Award

2014 Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards

Libraries in the News

Bullets scar, dent Canadian Library of Parliament

Queens Library to hire 50 new employees

Four designs for an Obama Presidential Library

Issues

The top 40 free speech defenders of 2014

How Facebook is changing the way people get news

Tech Talk

Are you an iPad or a laptop?

3D printing as a library service

The dark side of 3D printing

Searching by 3D shapes

E-Content

ALA welcomes privacy fix for Adobe Digital Editions

You can be a scout for Kindle Press

Ebook access for all (video)

Books & Reading

To Kill a Mockingbird read-alikes

How to create readers

Battle of the genres (infographic)

Tips & Ideas

Four ways academic libraries are adapting for the future

Brooklyn's librarian-based book-recommendation service

The impact of library games on information confidence

Inside the brain of a curious child

America after 3 p.m.: Where do libraries fit in?

State-specific online database services

So you want to be a medical librarian?

Wikipedia a good source on Ebola information

 

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