Here are the links I shared on my Twitter and Pinterest accounts this week that you might find interesting:
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Children’s Book Recommendations To Celebrate Spring http://buff.ly/YIaIty
First Book Gives 2 Awards in Stories for All Multicultural Project – http://buff.ly/pFWKdl http://nyti.ms/12GdhSn
Kidlit Celebrates Women’s History Month http://buff.ly/YiFKbG
Three lives saved by a children’s book – http://buff.ly/YDdTmg
E-BOOKS
Top novelists look to ebooks to challenge the rules of fiction | Books|The Observer http://bit.ly/YTrcfs
LIBRARIES
24 hour library people: all work, no play? | Education http://buff.ly/Y8gmmC
Cory Doctorow on Libraries, Hackspaces & E-Waste – Raincoast Books http://buff.ly/13kRT4r
"Ever since the creation of the Internet, the use of public libraries has been on the decline." – So not true! http://buff.ly/YbkZQ5
"Filament Mind is the brilliant installation that graces the new Teton County Library in Wyoming." http://buff.ly/YitqIv
A Librarian’s Guide to Makerspaces: 16 Resources – iLibrarian http://buff.ly/Y8tH1B
Library as Publisher: A Massachusetts Public Library Will Soon Begin Publishing eBooks | LJ INFOdocket http://buff.ly/Yphcea
PUBLISHERS
Publishers are reshaping themselves – The Shatzkin Files http://buff.ly/Y7flhT
READING
"Books show us what is possible, what is good and noble and what is to be avoided." http://buff.ly/YdEerk
Douglas Adams’s life celebrated by Google doodle | Books http://buff.ly/YmogrV
Download 14 Great Sci-Fi Stories by Philip K. Dick as Free Audio Books and Free eBooks | Open Culture http://buff.ly/Y4b6Ui
More states requiring third-graders to pass reading test to advance – The Washington Post http://buff.ly/ZzLRto
SOCIAL MEDIA
Oh, How Pinteresting!, Introducing Pinterest Web Analytics http://bit.ly/W5wTvr
Twitter and the (not so) subtle art of literary self-promotion | Nesrine Malik|Comment is free http://bit.ly/Yp8ht1
Twitter Now Supports Line Breaks in Tweets http://on.mash.to/YbqsGK