Two weeks worth this time!
Here are the links I shared on my Twitter and Pinterest accounts these last two weeks that you might find interesting:
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
1st Welsh publisher dedicated to children’s books to help tackle literacy and tell great stories – Wales Online http://buff.ly/1730o64
BBC News – Authors back ‘malnutrition hits literacy’ study http://buff.ly/153zOq0
Book News: Kipling Admitted Plagiarizing ‘Promiscuously’ : The Two-Way : NPR http://buff.ly/12OL1IQ
The Book Smugglers | Progressive Publishers Doing Cool Things: Lee & Low Books (& Giveaway) http://buff.ly/112Ivfo #kidlit #publishers
Gwyneth Rees’s top 10 books about siblings | Children’s books http://buff.ly/12SuTX1 #kidlit
Hear the Classic Winnie-the-Pooh Read by Author A.A. Milne in 1929 | Open Culture http://cultr.me/17mLKHJ #kidlit
JK Rowling-Annotated Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone Sells At Record Price http://buff.ly/13KYCmY #kidlit
New Great Chapter Books for Kids and Summer Reading : PragmaticMom http://buff.ly/13KZDeL #kidlit
Picture books for children still popular – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://buff.ly/1730JG3 #kidlit
Read, Write, Reflect: Reflecting on Picture Books http://buff.ly/17OtxlE #kidlit
What books for toddlers can match the allure of Peppa Pig? | Children’s books http://buff.ly/1atOnng #kidlit
EBOOKS
HarperCollins makes it easier for authors to give away their ebooks — paidContent http://buff.ly/159lufC #ebooks
"OverDrive’s Big Library Read Boosts Checkouts, Sales" http://buff.ly/1azgKRe #books #libraries
‘Real Books From Real Trees for Real People’: Microsoft’s Fun eBook Predictions From 1999 – The Atlantic http://buff.ly/187BMcB #ebooks
LIBRARIES
‘Artists in the Archives,’ at Greenburgh Public Library in Elmsford – http://buff.ly/13HYPYj #art #libraries
BBC News – Paperless public libraries switch to digital http://buff.ly/10LSMMZ
Gun Violence, Videogames, and Libraries | American Libraries Magazine http://buff.ly/16OIMe4 #libraries
Librarians: Your Most Valuable MOOC Supporters – http://buff.ly/10G19tx
Libraries as Content Creators | American Libraries Magazine http://buff.ly/1138O56 #libraries
A library revolution, started in part by Jane McGonigal’s TED Talk | TED Blog http://buff.ly/168SJDP #libraries
Miniature Libraries http://buff.ly/10M3MxQ
Suspended Boxes Transform Trees Into A Free Library – PSFK http://buff.ly/13KZBnc #libraries
PRIVACY
Unprecedented e-mail privacy bill sent to Texas governor’s desk | Ars Technica http://buff.ly/16nXVDU #privacy
PUBLISHERS
Barefoot Books Stops Selling to Amazon http://buff.ly/10M5uvg #publishers
READING
10 Benefits of Reading: Why You Should Read Every Day – Lifehack http://buff.ly/12s0sX4
25 Signs You’re Addicted To Books http://buff.ly/118CoKF – I won’t tell you how many I exhibit…
Is He Reading? – Digital Book Today-Digital Book Today http://buff.ly/17OtXZe #reading
SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook crafts new policies to better combat hate speech – Computerworld http://buff.ly/112D4Nz
Online video will be more popular than Facebook and Twitter by 2017 — Tech News and Analysis http://buff.ly/1ayC7BZ
Teens are tired of Facebook ‘drama,’ find refuge on Twitter and elsewhere, says Pew | The Verge http://buff.ly/10LSGoK
Yahoo revamps Flickr and offers a terabyte of free storage – Computerworld http://buff.ly/12SumEm
TEEN READS
Novels for young adults are reaching more (adult) readers – http://buff.ly/17OtypO #yalit
TLT: Teen Librarian’s Toolbox: Relational Reading Revolution: How you can change the landscape of reading http://buff.ly/1atOkYK
Top 10 young adult books for summer http://buff.ly/10QWJzZ #yalit
Top Ten YA Road Trip Novels by Ben Kuhlman | Nerdy Book Club http://buff.ly/17P4E9z #yalit


