Here are the links I shared on my Twitter and Pinterest accounts this week that you might find interesting:

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Book Doctor: do classic children’s books give us too rosy a view of childhood? | Children’s books http://buff.ly/11Bdn98 #kidlit

Gillian Cross’s top 10 books about being different | Books http://buff.ly/14SvvBs #kidlit

Mo Willems: Children’s book author shares his secrets http://buff.ly/11C6XaR #kidlit

New Video Throws Spotlight on Newbery Authors http://buff.ly/11H7EyD #kidlit

Remembering Elaine Konigsburg – The Horn Book http://buff.ly/11zwsd9 #authors #kidlit

Tacky the Penguin’s Creators Celebrate 25 Years – Publishers Weekly: Lester and Munsinger’s first-ever collabo… http://bit.ly/13XRt5a

EBOOKS

Looking for a good laugh about digital vs. paper? The Paperless Future – "Emma" http://buff.ly/YPCKBT

Patterson Sees Ads as a Wake Up Call http://buff.ly/15LaB6c #reading #ebooks

LIBRARIES

The Most Playful Libraries in the World – Flavorwire http://buff.ly/15Ck1Bq #libraries

Nice!! "A Quick Guide to Private Browsing" – iLibrarian http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2013/a-quick-guide-to-private-browsing/ …

READING

5 Ways to Become a Better Reader – Lifehack http://buff.ly/Zl95V5 #reading

30 things to tell a book snob | Booktrust http://buff.ly/11DFNiC

World Book Night: Ten writers’ reasons for reading | Books http://buff.ly/ZNe50g

TECHNOLOGY

Twitter Scares CNN President http://buff.ly/11GWycO #twitter

Who Are The Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers, 2013? – Forbes http://buff.ly/ZN2L46

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TEEN READS

Elizabeth Vail: Lovesick and Tired: Unnecessary Romance in YA http://buff.ly/11GXw98 #yalit

‘Tiger Eyes’: A Family Film http://buff.ly/15LaW9c #yalit

Here are the links I shared on my Twitter and Pinterest accounts this week that you might find interesting:

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Five Questions for Anna Dewdney – The Horn Book http://buff.ly/11aEQz6 #kidlit

Laura Powell’s top 10 heroes in disguise | Children’s books http://buff.ly/16XUrVe #kidlit

Top Ten Novels in Verse by Lauren Strohecker | Nerdy Book Club http://buff.ly/ZnXbG6

Writing a Wordless Book by Lizi Boyd | Nerdy Book Club http://buff.ly/11cF8pl #kidlit

EBOOKS

Simon & Schuster launches ebook lending pilot with New York City public libraries — paidContent http://buff.ly/12dDGEp #ebooks #libraries

LIBRARIES

Five Great Things Libraries Are Doing With Old Books | LJ Insider http://buff.ly/17vkCnF

Jo Knowles – What’s so important about your local library? http://buff.ly/ZuJbul #libraries

Why libraries are relevant in the Google age – Las Vegas Sun News http://buff.ly/ZkPaVx #libraries

PUBLISHING

Neil Gaiman urges publishers to ‘make mistakes’ in uncertain new era | Books http://buff.ly/119Gpeb

Self-Publishing Grabs Huge Market Share From Traditional Publishers | David Gaughran http://buff.ly/16S3Ldh

TECHNOLOGY

12 Types Of Social Media Users – infographic http://shrd.by/D5Rnf3 via @BerriePelser

Fujitsu Develops Technology That Turns Paper Into a Touchscreen – Wow! http://on.mash.to/11clpVD

Judge rules Union County blogger is protected by the state’s shield law | http://buff.ly/17AplEy #blogging #blogs

Kids read and write better on iPads: Swedish study – The Local http://buff.ly/15ptbB3

Teens and Social Media: http://pinterest.com/pin/193021534002126208/

TEEN LIT

The Spring Book Preview, Y.A. Edition – Jen Doll-The Atlantic Wire http://buff.ly/114ReRe

Watch New ‘Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Teaser Trailer [VIDEO] http://on.mash.to/17A9pSD #yalit

Here are the links I shared on my Twitter and Pinterest accounts this week that you might find interesting:

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

The 25 Books Every Kid Should Have on Their Bookshelf – Flavorwire http://buff.ly/16KGPMZ

Amazon backs down over Cornish-language children’s book | Books http://buff.ly/11IwiRa

The children’s books you can never part with | The Poop http://buff.ly/16C1Vx8

The Duck Who Shared Her Eggs: How Children’s Books Approach Modern Reproduction – Jennifer Bleyer-The Atlantic http://buff.ly/10QQZJt

Five questions for Marilyn Singer – The Horn Book http://buff.ly/16CietP

May Kids’ Book Club Pick: ‘Lunch Lady And The Cyborg Substitute’ : NPR http://buff.ly/16PyHe6

Reading with Babies and Board Books for Babies – Mama Smiles-Joyful Parenting http://buff.ly/XYELQd

EBOOKS

The Reading Brain in The Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens: Scientific American http://buff.ly/ZjydYA

Thin Reads Wants to Be Like ‘Publishers Weekly’ for Ebook Singles http://buff.ly/16KsYq6

Why Do We Keep Making Ebooks Like Paper Books? http://buff.ly/YY1NFX #ebooks

LIBRARIES

All Your Data Are Belong To You | Librarian in Black Blog http://buff.ly/YTJ3r5 – also known as why librarians kick ass #rights #librarians

BBC News – Libraries to store all UK web content http://bbc.in/10Ab4Cd #libraries

Ithaka Survey: Humanities Faculty Love the Library; Scientists Less Enthusiastic http://buff.ly/Ya05m5

Librarians and community involvement as a professional competence | Library as Incubator Project http://buff.ly/XYcGZj

Libraries and Authors – ALA’s response to Scott Turow – http://buff.ly/10YSF3y

The Slow Death of the American Author – Scott Turow bemoans library e-lending among other things – http://buff.ly/16KrHPL

Toronto Public Library Enters Alternate Reality (Gaming) http://buff.ly/ZbQ7PO

PUBLISHING

Ten ways self-publishing has changed the books world | Books http://buff.ly/Y9mTCf

What’s the Problem with Self-Publishing? – Library Journal http://buff.ly/16PECQB

READING

Love this poem – Personal by Tony Hoagland : Poetry Magazine http://buff.ly/YaBiy4

TECHNOLOGY

Pls Rt- Next week: Join Internet Defense League action to fix the #CFAA. Justice for #aaronswartz http://act.demandprogress.org/act/cosponsor_aarons_law_idl/?referring_akid=.194196.pE4I30&source=typ-tw …

Still under the impression that video games are strictly for kids? Meet an 85 year old gamer- Psychedelic Catnip – http://buff.ly/Yf0Bis

TEEN READS

The evolution of LGBTQ characters in Y.A. lit | Bill Konigsberg Online http://buff.ly/16BB4RS

How a Graphic Novel is Born (And Raised) by Raina Telgemeier | Inside A Dog http://buff.ly/16Ku4SF

New Imprint to Reissue Forgotten YA Literature http://buff.ly/Y0HHr9 #yalit

Here are the links I shared on my Twitter and Pinterest accounts this week that you might find interesting:

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Encouraging Lifelong Reading with Great Children’s Books | NEA Today http://buff.ly/16w0Ma8

Fathers, read aloud to your kids http://buff.ly/Yr78WE

Librarian Nancy Pearl records first children’s audio book http://buff.ly/YqArJ1

Sarah Moore Fitzgerald’s top 10 books featuring grandparents | Children’s books http://buff.ly/XRWSqY

w00t! 30 Poets/30 Days is off and running, leading off this year with @MaryLeeHahn – http://bit.ly/YXBK4u #poetry #kidlit

EBOOKS

Ebooks are actually not books—schools among first to realizing this fact | Digital Book World http://buff.ly/ZD9GyL

LIBRARIES

6 Bookless Libraries – iLibrarian http://buff.ly/YtwSBQ

The 12 Technologies Forever Changing School Libraries | Edudemic http://bit.ly/YXCXSB

Civic Art Cleveland – Abandoning Our Historic Character and the South Euclid-Lyndhurst Library – http://buff.ly/160YeyO

Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, Susan Sontag, Harper Lee, and Other Literary Greats on Censorship | Brain Pickings http://buff.ly/PKQZob

Libraries in Lock-Up » Public Libraries Online http://buff.ly/YkFoTB

Library helps local youth learn to design video games | TechSoup for Libraries http://buff.ly/YqLpOG

Philly Free Library Debuts Virtual Collection at Suburban Station http://buff.ly/YqLK3S

Will Librarians Still Use Goodreads? http://buff.ly/16wGP3a

PRIVACY

California Wants Companies to Disclose Everything They Know About You http://on.mash.to/XYgjKm

PUBLISHING

Arthur Frommer reacquires travel book brand from Google | Internet & Media|CNET News http://buff.ly/16yI16f

Michael Wolff: Why Paywalls Won’t Solve Newspapers’ Larger Issues – PSFK-PSFK http://buff.ly/16kdk2v

TECHNOLOGY

Amazon snaps up book recommendation site Goodreads | Digital Trends http://buff.ly/YjXaGD

The Best Applications For Creating Free Email Newsletters | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… http://buff.ly/164sY1N

Blogs still more influential than Twitter, says study | The Wall Blog http://buff.ly/YPCTrV (Chart below)

Delicious Becomes A Bit More Social Again, Adds Twitter And Facebook Logins | TechCrunch http://buff.ly/163LyY4

Free Technology for Teachers: Create Your Own iPad Magazine on Flipboard http://buff.ly/16iS5y3

Google’s Secrets Of Innovation: Empowering Its Employees – Forbes http://buff.ly/YPSeFU

In South Korea, wifi movie posters offer the connectivity to access extra content | Springwise http://buff.ly/Yf8Av6

I’ve Been Using Evernote All Wrong. Here’s Why It’s Actually Amazing http://buff.ly/Yt4Shs

Music Fans Aren’t Owners? Court Finds Redigi Music Resale Service Infringes Copyright | EFF http://buff.ly/16isJQX

The Simple Reason Why Goodreads Is So Valuable to Amazon – Jordan Weissmann-The Atlantic http://buff.ly/YXlsm4

Stop Reacting to Robots: A Path to Mindful Work – 99U http://buff.ly/11PC2Hq – How distracted are you by your own digital habits?

TEEN READS

The Guardian – My transgender novel is too personal to be propaganda | Books http://buff.ly/16iSTTG

Michael Grant’s top tips for writing YA | Children’s books http://buff.ly/16w0eBl

The tide swings toward #middlegrade at #Bologna13: via @publisherswkly http://ow.ly/jxH9C

Here are the links I shared on my Twitter and Pinterest accounts this week that you might find interesting:

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

5 Tips For Getting Children Excited About Reading | Edudemic http://bit.ly/X1BMWT

Abrams Announces Wimpy Kid #8 http://buff.ly/10FRoz4

BBC News – Children should be allowed to get bored, expert says http://buff.ly/11rFaZI

Creating a Common Language for Cross-Cultural Kid’s Book Collaboration | Publishing Perspectives http://buff.ly/15OwZYc

"Identifying exactly why a particular book is successful is hard but some of it is about the universality of a theme."http://buff.ly/11DwVdf

The It-Doesn’t-Matter Suit: Sylvia Plath’s Lovely, Little-Known Vintage Children’s Book | Brain Pickings http://buff.ly/11MhmA5

Tony Ross: My favourite children’s books – Telegraph http://buff.ly/10F8DR8

EBOOKS

Accidental Discovery by Ursula Le Guin – on one important way print is different than digital | Book View Cafe Blog http://buff.ly/11DxTWW

Penguin Lifts Library Ebook Purchase Embargo – The Digital Shift http://buff.ly/YhKEay

LIBRARIES

"Do you see why I love teachers and librarians so much?" Post at #nerdybookclub will make your day. http://nerdybookclub.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/the-great-inbe-tween-by-lindsey-leavitt/ …

Gray owl adopts library – The Bozeman Daily Chronicle: Dailyfeatures http://buff.ly/10n5rti

Library of Congress digs into 170 billion tweets – http://buff.ly/10BhZ0m

Putting Libraries on the National Stage | District Dispatch http://buff.ly/10tUSVs

Ten Easy Pieces on the Profession of Librarianship | Peer to Peer Review http://buff.ly/XvuTsP

Toronto gets its first ever tool library http://buff.ly/YdErwe

What could a library do with a gigabit Internet connection? – Boing Boing http://buff.ly/11OaS3G

PUBLISHERS

Chronicle Books Named Best Children’s Publisher of the Year – GalleyCat http://buff.ly/160Ur4A

Does Piracy Impact Sales? Not How You Might Think! | American Libraries Magazine http://buff.ly/11qZ8DY

TECHNOLOGY

BBC News – Privacy ‘impossible’ with Google Glass warn campaigners http://buff.ly/14shHwh

Google’s Google problem | The Economist http://buff.ly/Zgut8U

Internet Access for All: A New Program Targets Low-Income Students | MindShift http://buff.ly/10n7lu4

Is Pheed the next big social media "thing"? – http://buff.ly/11qhzJ7

Presefy Lets You Control Presentations With Your Phone, No Software Required | TechCrunch http://bit.ly/16SBhkJ

Thanks Google Keep! EverNote sees uptick in downloads, usage — Tech News and Analysis http://buff.ly/15Jwj6i

Tumblr Now Hosts Over 100 Million Blogs http://on.mash.to/YevTVQ

TEEN READS

Ally Condie Lands Deal for Two New Novels – GalleyCat http://buff.ly/11DwO1a

First Theatrical Poster for Ender’s Game Revealed! | http://buff.ly/Ydfl0s

I wish I had teachers like @yaloveblog in high school. Check out this awesome idea for literacy lockers she had http://bit.ly/YpBxGV

Kate Winslet joins upcoming young adult film Divergent | Reuters http://buff.ly/10F8WeN

Neil Gaiman & Marvel Back Together; Bounty Hunter Angela Returns For ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ http://buff.ly/11qofH7

What Makes a Good YA Coming-Out Novel? – The Horn Book http://buff.ly/YiadIp

Here are the links I shared on my Twitter and Pinterest accounts this week that you might find interesting:

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

8 Ways Parents Discourage Their Kids From Reading http://bit.ly/10VtYIh

Children’s & YA Revenues Up Nearly 18% http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/childrens-ya-sales-up-nearly-18-in-november_b67238 … via @galleycat

Love!-> Cleveland project to turn vacant lots into literary spaces inspired by children’s books. http://bit.ly/Yr2MOG via @pageturner

Michael Morpurgo: my favourite children’s books – Telegraph http://buff.ly/ZKor2T

Robert Louis Stevenson: ‘Treasure Island’ author’s long-lost essay | Shelf Life http://buff.ly/143yl5c

E-BOOKS

The Bestselling E-books of 2012 http://buff.ly/ZDWsle

WHSmith Breaking Trust Putting DRM in eBooks without permission from the authors | http://buff.ly/10nlvLG

LIBRARIES

Congressman Already Claims That He Needs To Overturn Supreme Court Ruling In Kirtsaeng | Techdirt http://buff.ly/ZL2oZF

Library Journal Movers & Shakers 2013 http://buff.ly/YdEasp

Oooh – love the furniture! RT @ucsf_library: Come to the party in the Library’s new Living Room, today at 3 pm! http://bit.ly/16He052

Oxford librarian dismissed over Harlem Shake video – that she wasn’t in–Books http://buff.ly/13bIjSn

Play Boxes: Mini Playspaces in Your Library | http://buff.ly/13bIlK4

RT @hubbell Iraqi librarian saved 30,000 books during 2003 invasion /ht @elleryhubbell #librarians

RT @vpl: Have you ever wanted to be a librarian? Here are the skills you’ll need to become a 21st century librarian: http://ow.ly/jighN

Stephen and Tabitha King offer to cover one-third of $9 million Bangor library renovation — Bangor Daily News http://buff.ly/13bIq0g

Supreme Court sides with bookseller in major copyright ruling, says resale is ok — paidContent http://buff.ly/ZHa1k2

Why I Love Our Public Libraries | Open Book: Toronto http://buff.ly/ZKl101

Wisconsin man banned from all libraries on earth | News|Home http://buff.ly/159S6DV

Would More People Use the Public Library If It Had a Water Slide? – John Metcalfe-The Atlantic Cities http://bit.ly/YEK0zs

PUBLISHING

Intriguing-> Book Publishers Scramble to Rewrite Their Future | http://Wired.com http://bit.ly/ZGFh2y

My Amazon bestseller made me nothing – http://bit.ly/ZmB8kY

Newsroom Cutbacks Are Hurting Journalism, Study Shows http://buff.ly/ZCvomo

Simon & Schuster will give authors direct access to piracy data for their books — paidContent http://buff.ly/10n8Nwi

This Is the Scariest Statistic About the Newspaper Business Today – Derek Thompson-The Atlantic http://buff.ly/108L9DS

TECHNOLOGY

Danny Hillis: The Internet could crash. We need a Plan B | http://buff.ly/107pprL

Feedly picks up 500,000 new users following Google’s decision to can its Reader service – The Next Web http://buff.ly/YiUHZ3

Google Reader Shutdown a Sobering Reminder That ‘Our’ Technology Isn’t Ours – Forbes http://onforb.es/WdH0ya

How to Backup Your Social Media Accounts – Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Instagram http://buff.ly/Y9uxry

How to use Twitter lists to replace Google Reader | http://buff.ly/ZKrJ6b

Pinterest rolls out a new look – http://buff.ly/YjGkqs

Social media life: What privacy? | The Great Debate http://buff.ly/YL0qcx

Why are one third of Americans turning their backs on high-speed Internet? | Digital Trends http://buff.ly/135td0R

TEEN READS

Reading, Writing and Video Games – http://buff.ly/135p0u8

Sex, Violence, and Radical Islam: Why ‘Persepolis’ Belongs in Public Schools – Noah Berlatsky-The Atlantic http://buff.ly/Yp9vW3

Stacked: So You Want to Read YA?: Guest Post by Rae Carson (author of Girl of Fire and Thorns) http://buff.ly/YLsDQB

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

Here are the links I shared on my Twitter and Pinterest accounts this week that you might find interesting:

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

An Interview with Marcus Sedgwick | Federation of Children’s Book Groups http://buff.ly/Z1jlRf

Jarrett J. Krosoczka: How a boy became an artist | http://buff.ly/VPyZvd

LIBRARIES

At A Pakistani Mobile Library, Kids Can Check Out Books, And Hope : NPR http://buff.ly/YLn3hH

Free book boxes keep fiction afloat outside waterlogged libraries • Brooklyn Daily http://buff.ly/WwHUBH

The Future of Libraries Infographic | Fluency21 http://buff.ly/Zcq4ry

Latest Study: A full-time school librarian makes a critical difference in boosting student achievement | SLJ http://buff.ly/ZhghAA

Libraries offer weird things to draw new borrowers – loving the seed library idea which La Crosse is also doing – http://buff.ly/Zdf6SL

New ‘Subway Libraries’ Encourages Commuters To Read On-The-Go – http://j.mp/Z70016

Required Reading: 6 Indispensable Library Technology Blogs | StateTech Magazine http://buff.ly/ZhfK1u

PUBLISHERS

Disney’s Hyperion will reportedly sell off most of its titles, focus on TV-related books — paidContent http://buff.ly/Zhg5Bn

READING

LitWorld – World Read Aloud Day http://buff.ly/Wst6Eh

Pass / Fail : How often do you read to your child? New study says: Step it up! | 89.3 KPCC http://buff.ly/YutTqL

Repetitive reading helps kids learn – NZ Herald News http://buff.ly/YxsKPk

World Book Day: Philip Reeve on why we treasure reading – Telegraph http://buff.ly/ZhgbsP

TECHNOLOGY

Google Glass: is it a threat to our privacy? | Technology|The Guardian http://buff.ly/Zch2L7