Here are the links I shared on my Twitter and Pinterest accounts this week that you might find interesting:
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
13 Children’s Book Quotes That Are Still Relevant to Your Adult Life http://buff.ly/141RFAT #kidlit
Bedtime stories fading as 2/3 of busy parents claim they read to their kids less than once a week http://buff.ly/1dLfwqq #kidlit #reading
Books About Starting School http://buff.ly/13QaJSC #kidlit
Mitali’s Fire Escape: Children’s Books in Iran: A Chat with Ali Seidabadi http://buff.ly/14YG68w #kidlit
Wonderful visualizations of choose-your-own-adventure books http://buff.ly/1431grj #kidlit
E-BOOKS
Google calls book scanning “transformative” in latest push for fair use ruling — Tech News and Analysis http://buff.ly/1dLIXsm
How to get children to read? Embrace the e-book http://buff.ly/14I4ZVO #reading #ebooks
LIBRARIES
Chicago’s New Public/School Library Hybrid Opens Doors | School Library Journal http://buff.ly/12Lqzev
The future of libraries – The Next Web http://buff.ly/16Ck8v5 #libraries
PRIVACY
Facebook publishes first Transparency Report: exceeds Google with 11,000 US govt requests -Tech News and Analysis http://buff.ly/13WyeJI
TECHNOLOGY
10 Golden Rules To Take Your Library’s Twitter Account to the Next Level http://buff.ly/13WMBhh
Authors, Readers Band Together to Stop Goodreads “Bullying” http://buff.ly/16L3RUJ
Four lessons for news sites from National Public Radio’s redesign | IJNet http://buff.ly/192I3UM – Libraries should use these too!
New tech words added to the Oxford Dictionaries Online: BYOD, hackerspace, MOOC http://bit.ly/1a2IuTt as tech informs culture informs tech
TEEN READS
Amnesty teen takeover: Rita Williams-Garcia on writing about FGM for teens | Children’s books http://buff.ly/13Jkpyb #yalit
Check out @hollyblack chatting about vampires on the radio with Bill Newman at @whmp! http://whmp.com/podcasts/the-bill-newman-show-8-29-13/ …
Interview: David Levithan – Cool Hunting http://buff.ly/193hQp5 #yalit
It’s “Twilight”: YA movies are totally over! http://buff.ly/14bKtNz #yalit
New Adult literature: Teen reading for grown-ups Metro.us http://buff.ly/14I4T0v #yalit