reading

Does your library pwn? Would that be a good thing if it did? Though you might be worried about being labeled with a fail sticker, should you be equally concerned if a student says “Librarian FTW”?
Part of embracing gaming in libraries is learning the lingo that accompanies online gaming and the less academic side of [...]

Cory Doctorow – best-selling author and blogger at BoingBoing – is providing 200 review copies of his upcoming YA novel to high school newspapers. Little Brother sounds like a very interesting novel that explores the problems of police states. It already has some impressive reviews from Neil Gaimon (American Gods) and Scott Westerfield (Uglies).
This [...]

One of the Leadership Retreat participants brought up a question in response to Doug Johnson’s statement that “libraries = economy.” Despite what we know are the benefits of economy of scale that come from buying resources for common use in the library, more and more programs are turning towards classroom libraries.
Here is the problem. [...]

Are your students reading? Not turning pages and vaguely processing some text, but rather really truly engaged in devouring stories? This is the story of how one small, rural school in Western NY re-discovered reading…and how you can implement the same successful program in your library.
Alexander Central Schools is a district like many in this [...]

Have you ever run a sentence through computer translation and then back again? Or, should I say:
“You have always worked an oration with the translation by computer and then behind again?” As you probably guessed, interesting things happen when we look at the reverse of a reverse when we are working with language instead of [...]