January 2010
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Links I Love Friday
“J.D. Salinger, American Literary Icon, Dies at 91” from PBS’s NewsHour:
Am I the only person who graduated from high school in the United States without reading ”Catcher in the Rye”? This story from last night’s NewsHour really makes me want to read it and J.D. Salinger’s other writings.
The comments towards the end of the piece on fame and notoriety...
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Nonfiction
The other day I had a question from a library customer who likes to read mostly nonfiction books for pleasure. She wondered if I had suggestions for new places to look for recommendations. As luck would have it, I also prefer to read nonfiction so I directed her to some of the sites I use:
The American Library Association’s Reference and User Services section publishes a list of...
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Links I Love Friday
Felt bead tutorials- Felted Beads from Knitty and How to Make Felted Beads Tutorial on Today I Made:
I’ve never made felt before—unless you count those wool sweaters I washed in hot water by mistake—but felt beads have recently caught my attention. They look quite easy to make and see how interesting they look: www.flickr.com/search/?q=felt+beads.
What else can you do with...
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In the News: Haiti
We just posted a short list of books (fiction and nonfiction) about Haiti in SUNCAT, the library catalog. Find the link on SUNCAT’s front page or just click here.
My SCLibs E-Gov colleague also just posted some government links related to the earthquakes in Haiti.
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Typography....again?
Yes, again! I take any excuse to post something about typography. (I’m more than a little obsessed with fonts, as you may remember.)
“Gorgeous Typography Examples in Advertising Design” on noupe.com showed up in my blog reader a few days ago, and I thought you’d want to see, too. ”Gorgeous” is right!
Every time I read something about typography or fonts, I...
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Links I Love Friday
“100 Skills Everyone Should Master” on MightyGirl.com:*
I just learned how to do 41 last week. I have my father to thank for 33, 43, 44, and 59. My mother deserves all the credit for 49, 54, 66, 71, and what I think are the two most useful skills ever—21 and 23. I still have many things to work on—hello there, 38.
How do your skills compare to the list?
You can find...
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"Another tax post already?" from SCLibs E-Gov
Did you see my colleague’s post yesterday about tax forms at the library?
She’s right about library school not teaching tax law…..My husband has banned me from doing our taxes…but that’s a story for another day….
If you are looking for tax preparation help, volunteers from AARP will be using some library locations to host their yearly, free tax preparation...
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"No Reservations" on a Cold Day
What did you do during the cold, cold weekend?
I spent most of yesterday afternoon in front of my television set watching “Anthony Bourdain, No Reservations” on the Travel Channel. Watching Anthony Bourdain eating all sorts of unusual, delicious foods around the world made me want to join him. The most exotic thing I had on hand was chips and salsa, but I wasn’t going out to get...
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Links I Love Friday
America’s Most Literate Cities, 2009: “Drawing from a variety of available data resources, the America’s Most Literate Cities study ranks the largest cities … . on six key indicators of literacy: newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment, and Internet resources.”
I don’t think the overall...
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This Emotional Life
Have you been watching “This Emotional Life” this week on PBS? The third episode premieres tonight (Wednesday night).
In the first episode, I heard a lot that related to habits: our habits of thinking, feeling, and reacting. That could be because I’m still formulating my resolutions for the new year, and resolutions so often entail breaking old habits and forming new ones.
Have...
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In the News
We’ve been hearing so much about Yemen lately, but what do we all know about that country?*
A SUNCAT search doesn’t offer many scholarly or historical studies of Yemen, but there are interesting books just the same. These caught my eye:
______________________________ *In seventh or eighth grade, my social studies teacher had his classes memorize geographic and demographic data...
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Links I Love Friday
This is the 53rd Links I Love Friday. I started this weekly series on Jan. 9, 2009. I’ve gone back and tagged all the issues so you can find them with one click: sclibshighlights.tumblr.com/tagged/lilfriday.* (Aren’t I a good librarian, assigning subject headings like that?)
Now I’m cleaning up my saved links in honor of the new year. This past year, I found many links I planned...