Just Links!
Links!
- Libraries, Books, & Authors
- Have a reluctant reader that likes space adventures? Enter the giveaway for one of 10 copies of Galaxy's Most Wanted by John Kloepfer! Graphic novels are a great way to hook reluctant readers.
- Librarians love infographics. It's true.
- Which Famous Librarian Are You? I'm Lewis Carroll, apparently.
- Check out the Department of Labor's Books That Shaped Work in America list! It's really neat.
- Listen to 15 Literary Icons Reading Their Own Work
- If Literary Classics Were Episodes of Jerry Springer: A Quiz I think this would be a great way to get YA readers interested in the classics. I mean, there's a lot more drama than you expect.
- Three Previously Out-of-Print J.D. Salinger Stories Published
- Jul 28, 1814: Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin elope to France
- 10 Things to Do in College (Probably) More Important Than Going to Class "1. Learn to use the library." I second that, with an addendum: learn to use your librarians, too! They'll make every paper you're assigned so much easier to write and much better researched, as well!
- Start a Book Club for Kids
- Graphic Novels Reading Lists for grades K-8. Related: Great Graphic Novels for ages 12-18.
- Net & Tech
- What a new law about cellphone unlocking has to do with coffee, cars and consumer freedom
- A very interesting TED Talk - Stanley McChrystal: The military case for sharing knowledge
- White House Website Includes Unique Non-Cookie Tracker, Conflicts With Privacy Policy More information on canvas fingerprinting - and how the government is using it to invade your privacy
- As Congress Tackles Copyright Remedies, EFF Publishes New Whitepaper on the Broken Penalty System
- Google can't compete with a skilled librarian steeped in information technology
- Science
- Second American infected with Ebola Related: Liberia closes its borders to stop Ebola
- Simple Blood Test Could Detect All Types Of Cancer
- The Anti-Vaccination Movement Has Become an Anti-Vitamin Movement, and Babies Are Suffering
- Health risks of e-cigarettes emerge
- The Oldest Known Living Organisms In The World
- Dinosaurs Could Have Survived The Asteroid, Study Finds Dinosaurs went extinct due to really bad luck, apparently.
- In good news, Earth Narrowly Missed A Potentially Devastating Solar Superstorm In 2012. I suppose we have better luck than the dinosaurs.
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