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Once more with gusto! Free Access to OED all week- National Library Week 14 - 20th April

We are celebrating National Library Week 14 - 20th of April but you can start now.

 

 

 

 

 

Interesting to note that you can  "Celebrate National Library Week, 14-20 April 2013, with free access to two of Oxford’s most popular online products.

Starting 14 April and running through 20 April, everyone in North and South America will have free access to the OED and Oxford Reference. Free access will be through a username and password announced here on the OUPblog on 14 April. Everyone will have access through the same login, which will last until the end of the week.  Reported in the Oxford University Press Blog.

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DIY in your Library? Shakin' it up in Indianaoplis

Check this out and maybe join the discussion at ACRL 2013, Indianapolis today through Saturday @libraryleadpipe   #diylib  

 

"DIY projects are shiny and exciting (and time-consuming), but to what end? For academic librarians this DIY culture is closely tied with professional development and scholarship, but what does it say about the future of the academic library profession? This is a question we propose to answer in a panel session at the ACRL National Conference this month."

We have always changed to meet our readers and clients' needs, is this a fad or a shift?  Librarians are asking how shifts in our technology and shared media culture are effecting librarians and how they do their work.

 

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IMAGINE THAT!

Walkill Librarian and power source, Mary Lou Carolan MC'd the Walkill Public Library - IMAGINE THAT! Children's Theater Project on Sunday afternoon.

What a fantastic way to involved children in reading @ Their Library.  The acts in the hour long production were about books; being IN books; READING books; what books MEAN to the children who know them so well.

We danced in the audience and responded to their cues.  What fun!

Here are some of the photos I took.  See and learn more here at the Walkill Public Library website, it's a happenin' place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Northwest Children's Theater Presents "Seussical"

Need a hit of Shakespeare? Heard of the Folger Shakespeare Library?

Visiting DC this summer?

Check out this fascinating library dedicated to all things Shakespeare.

The Folger Shakespeare Library has masterfully curated on going exhibits, in house and on-line, a theatre, tours, conservation lab, a shop of course and lots more to interest all ages and of course the Collection...

"The Folger Shakespeare Library collection has both great depth and a broad range. In round numbers, the Folger houses more than 256,000 books; 60,000 manuscripts; 250,000 playbills; 200 oil paintings; some 50,000 drawings, watercolors, prints, and photographs; and a wealth of other materials, including musical instruments, costumes, and films.

 The collection's two great strengths are materials related to the early modern age in the West, from about 1450 to the mid-1700s, and materials related to William Shakespeare and the theater, up to the present day."

 Admission is FREE!  Get out of the heat and find out what was so HOT in Elizabethan England.

Seattle library hides 1,000 books around town for young people to find.

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This could be fun...http://boingboing.net/2012/05/11/seattle-library-hides-1000-bo.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

 

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Goldsworthy, your ideas have morphed to books

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Andy Goldsworthy started it, creative books lovers continue the trend...

Have any remainders around you want to make art with?

 

let's have a lot of fun today

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It is my belief that I create and learn and produce better things and ideas when I have fun.

Who doesn't love a Rube Goldberg machine? 

The fun is just for itself.  The ideas that result can be for others' benefit too.

Here are adults having fun.  Wish I was one of the team.

Melvin the Machine

Start with the first machine  

 

 

 

 

 

and go to the second and most recent... 

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Friday laugh...@your Library

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Not only is this VIDEO funny and well done, our man

in the library is an impressive specimen of hunkatude.

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more GEEK news

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This vid just in from Solano County on YouTube's MrDavidthelibrarian'schannel.

 

 

Wow, is this library incredibly active, getting the word out about their library every way possible. 

There is such energy out there. 

It's got to make you smile.

 

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Oscar Nominated...Animated Short...based on the BOOK....

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ALA and every associated organisation should adopt the rights to this Oscar nominated animated short and have it up on their website.  It is that good.

This website will only be open for a limited time.  If you ever wanted to show people how important are words and the spirit of the book - this is the way to do it.  The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.

 

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Babar says, "pay your book fine...or else."

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The New Yorker publishes their cartoons on line, as animations!

 

Watch this animation, while Babar provides backup as a librarian collects a little girl's book fine.

 

 

 

 

 

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