The Street of the Lifted Lorax
This summer at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure, I especially enjoyed Seussville, and there I especially enjoyed The Street of the Lifted Lorax. The Lorax was one of Josh’s favorite…
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Booktalking Tornadoes
I booktalked at three local elementary schools this week. A lot of fun, but tremendously exhausting! For the first and third schools, I had my co-worker Sue along, which does…
Librarianship as a Calling
Having finished Our Singular Strengths: Meditations for Librarians, by Michael Gorman, today I’ve begun reading Our Own Selves: More Meditations for Librarians, by the same author. In the first meditation,…
Shelves made from Books! Too Delightful!
Okay, from a Library list, I just discovered the website www.thisintothat.com. Click on “Gallery” and then go to “Funniest Shelves.” Or use this link: http://www.thisintothat.com/gallery/funniest.html This artist makes bookshelves–from books! …
The Golden Compass
I went to see The Golden Compass movie last night. I enjoyed the book, and there has been some controversy about the movie, particularly on library lists. I did have…
Thing #14
The 14th “Thing” in our library’s program to do 23 Web 2.0 activities is to explore www.technorati.com. It’s a site where you can search blogs. I had some fun with…
Better than LibraryThing?
I just found another site for cataloging your books–www.goodreads.com. It is positioned as social networking for readers. It seems very similar to LibraryThing.com. However–and this is a big however–it doesn’t…