Steampunk Gypsy

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No worries! I have a big project I need to be working on for the next little bit - there's no exact deadline, so I can't tell you when exactly I'll be back. I might drop a few lines now and then, especially if something happens with CISA/CISPA or net neutrality, or book banning, or...well, all that stuff I care about a lot. I will also be writing some for Banned Books Week, for sure, so there's that!

Links! Libraries, Books, Writers, & Suchlike Bodleian Library Launches New Digital.Bodleian Site   Indianapolis launches literacy-promoting "Big Free Libraries"   Read before you speak  "I have a suggestion: If you want to complain about curriculum, you need to read the books. Twice in the last week, undergraduates in North Carolina — first at Duke University and then at the University of North Carolina — have objected to assigned books they haven’t read." Sound advice. Making Maps for Books: Two Cartographers Tell Us How It’s Done   Learning to Read: A Survival Guide for Parents   Dear Mom, Dad, and Teacher: This Is Why I Read  "On the last day of our ten-week Bookopolis Book Club session, I asked a group of fourth and fifth graders a simple question: Why do you read? Here are some of their sincere and unprompted answers..." ‘Dune’ at 50: Why the Groundbreaking Eco-Conscious Novel Is More Relevant Than Ever   Health, Science, Net, ...

Google has a new logo ! The celebratory Google Doodle  is cute: Google's made a lot of changes over the last 17 years or so: I like the new logo. Links! Libraries, Books, Writers, & Suchlike AIA/ALA Library Building Awards  So pretty... The digital debate is done, and the reading public are the winners   A College Curriculum on Your Bookshelf: 50 Books for 50 Classes   Hayao Miyazaki to build children’s nature retreat   A Day for Robots (and Humans)  Little Robot is out today!!  Neil Gaiman: 'my parents didn’t have any kind of rules about what I couldn’t read'   Neil Gaiman: “Freedom of speech is a hugely important thing.”   Literature of 9/11 college class accused of being 'sympathetic towards terrorism'  "Alec Dent, a freshman journalism major at UNC, hasn't taken the class or read any of the books on the syllabus, but said he's concerned that the class isn't 'fair and balanced,' reports WRAL-TV. 'The mo...

Links! Libraries, Books, Writers, & Suchlike The “Landmark Undertaking” of the Tulane Libraries Recovery Center   Librarian's lifeline offer for suicidal children spreads on Twitter   Freedom Ride images transport Indigenous librarian to a different era   Kullervo: Tolkien's fascination with Finland   Health, Science, Net, & Tech U.S. Appeals Court Overturns Decision That NSA Metadata Collection Was Illegal   Twitter just made it harder to hold politicians accountable.   Google to kill single most annoying thing about browsing the Web  "In a soon-to-be-released update to the Chrome browser, Google will no longer allow sounds and videos to load in background tabs. You will have to click on a tab to load a video or streaming media file -- even if it is set to auto-play." What was fake on the Internet this week: Selfie lice, Joey Fatone and James Earl Jones RIPs   Education Put the “Ph” Back in PhD   Roelofs: Berea Co...

Links! Libraries, Books, Writers, & Suchlike The heartbreaking farewell: the world's greatest sports library checks out   Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Program Donates Books To Children To Promote Literacy   As Islamic State group threatens its history, Iraq moves to digitize its national library   Japanese school board bans acclaimed anti-war manga   Children's Books Set in Libraries   Associated Press sues FBI over fake news story   Health, Science, Net, & Tech Facebook Goes Nuclear On The Messaging War With Its M Assistant   Father accused of robbing South Lyon Vibe Credit Union to pay for daughter's cancer treatments   NASA: Sea level rise could be worse than we thought  Related:  Your life on earth  "How you and the world have changed since you were born." Tesla's New Car Is So Good, It Literally Broke the Consumer Reports Scale   Education Star Scholar Resigns From Northwestern, Saying It...

Links! Libraries, Books, Writers, & Suchlike This Scholar’s Library In The Middle Of A Forest Is The Perfect Secluded Getaway   Calais migrant camp gets makeshift library – and it needs more books   Purcell police puzzled by woman's odd library theft  "She walked away with 21 DVDs of seasons 1-9 of 'The Waltons' television series."  Health, Science, Net, & Tech Digital surveillance 'worse than Orwell', says new UN privacy chief    Hawaii’s Governor Dumps Oil and Gas in Favor of 100 Percent Renewables   Education CFPB Considers Suing Student Loan Giant Navient For Cheating Borrowers   International Report: 50 North Korean Submarines Vanish From Radar  That can't be good... Islamic State photos show devastation at Palmyra temple   Politics Progressives pressure Hillary Clinton on Wall Street bonuses  "Eight groups representing the U.S. Democratic Party's progressive wing planned to call on Hillary Clin...