The New York Times has expanded its librarian awards to add a category for academic librarians. Public librarian nominations are due from the public by September 15, 2006. Twenty-one (21) public librarians will be honored this year.
Academic librarians can be nominated for The New York Times Academic Librarian Awards, which will honor […]
Check out what the Jesse M. Smith Memorial Library in Harrisville is doing with their Summer Reading Program. All the fun of Paws, Claws, Scales and Tales! is recorded online for everyone to see in their new Summer Reading 2006 blog. I believe this is the first Summer Reading Program blog in the state, though […]
The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation awards mini-grants of up to $350 to
public libraries and public school libraries to support programming that
encourages literacy and creativity in children.
* Potential applicants should read the “Ideas for Minigrants” page
first.
* Applications are only available online, and will not be mailed or
emailed.
* Deadline for submission of applications is September 15 annually.
For […]
Chaichin wrote last week about Stephen Hawking’s question on the survival of the human race. So how does one look at all these answers and make sense of them, especially when the answers number around 23,000 as of today? Well, if you’re a celebrity like Stephen Hawking, the employees at Yahoo! will sit […]
Karen Coyle, writings on the digital age, has posted a write-up of her visit to New Orleans, which included a tour of the devastated areas with a New Orleans local. Proud to Swim Home: NOLA after Katrina is a powerful account of the devastation that is New Orleans today. Karen ends the […]
Stephen Hawking, the most respected theoretical physicist and the Lucasian Professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge posted the following question in Yahoo Answers:
“How can the human race survive the next hundred years?”
At this moment, which is two days after the question was first published, 15,927 comments were received and it is still accepting […]
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