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| Library 2.0 Library 2.0 is a loosely defined model for a modernized form of library service that reflects a transition within the library world in the way that services are delivered to users. Business 2.0 and Web 2.0 and follows some of the same underlying philosophies. This includes online services like the use of OPAC systems and an increased flow of information from the user back to the library. Library_2.0 | |
| Blubber (novel) Blubber is a novel by Judy Blume first published in 1974. The protagonist is Jill Brenner, a Pennsylvania fifth-grader who joins her classmates in ostracizing and bullying Linda, an awkward and slightly overweight girl. Linda gives an oral class report about whales and is hence nicknamed "Blubber" by her peers. Blubber_(novel) | |
| USA PATRIOT Act, Title II The USA PATRIOT Act was passed by the United States Congress in 2001 as a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks. It has ten titles, each containing numerous sections. Title II granted increased powers of surveillance to various government agencies and bodies. USA_PATRIOT_Act,_Title_II | |
| Judith Krug Judith Fingeret Krug (March 15, 1940 – April 11, 2009) was an American librarian and anti-censorship activist. She was appointed as the Director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom in 1967 and Executive Director of the Freedom to Read Foundation in 1969. Judith_Krug | |
| The Spider and the Fly (poem) The Spider and the Fly is a poem by Mary Howitt (1799-1888), published in 1829. The first line of the poem is "'Will you walk into my parlor?' said the Spider to the Fly." When Lewis Carroll was readying Alice's Adventures Under Ground for publication he replaced a parody he had made of a negro minstrel song with a parody of Howitt's poem. The_Spider_and_the_Fly_(poem) | |
| Saint Stanislaus College St. Stanislaus College (SSC) is an all-male Roman Catholic boarding school in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi. It is owned and operated by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart order. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Biloxi. The institution is named after Saint Stanislaus Kostka. Saint_Stanislaus_College | |
| Google Book Search Google Book Search is a tool from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans, converts to text using optical character recognition, and stores in its digital database. The service was formerly known as Google Print when it was introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004. Google_Book_Search | |
| Master of Library and Information Science Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) is the masters degree that is required for most professional librarian positions in the United States and Canada. The MLIS is a relatively recent degree; an older and still common degree designation for librarians to acquire is the Master of Library Science (MLS), or Master of Science in Library Science (MSLS) degree. Master_of_Library_and_Information_Science | |
| Deenie Deenie (1973) is a book written by Judy Blume. Deenie | |
| Booklist Booklist is a publication of the American Library Association that provides critical reviews of books and audiovisual materials for all ages. It is geared toward libraries and booksellers and is available in print (ISSN 0006-7386) or online. It is published twice monthly September through June and monthly in July and August. Booklist | |
| Tasha Tudor Tasha Tudor (August 28, 1915 June 18, 2008) was an American illustrator and author of children's books. Tasha_Tudor | |
| Let the Circle Be Unbroken Let The Circle be Unbroken is the 1981 sequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, written by Mildred D. Taylor. T.J.'s punishment is approaching, Stacey runs away to find work, and the Logan children's cousin, Suzella Rankin, tries to pass herself off as a white person, but fails which leads to embarrassing consequences. It won the Coretta Scott King Author Award in 1982. Let_the_Circle_Be_Unbroken | |
| May Hill Arbuthnot May Hill Arbuthnot (27 August 1884 – 2 October 1969), born May L. Hill, was an American educator, writer, editor, children's literature scholar, lecturer, and an associate professor of education at Western Reserve University. She was the author of a well-known text about children's literature, Children and Books, and of Time for Poetry, Arbuthnot Anthology, Time for Fairy Tales, Time for True Tales, Children's Books Too Good to Miss, Time for Stories Past and Present, Time for Old Magic, and Time for New Magic. May_Hill_Arbuthnot | |
| Gary T. Marx ]Gary T. Marx is Professor Emeritus from M.I.T.. He previously held professorships at Harvard University and the University of Colorado. He is the author of Protest and Prejudice, Undercover: Police Surveillance in America, Collective Behavior and Social Movements (with Douglas McAdam), and the editor of Racial Conflict, Muckraking Sociology, Undercover: Police Surveillance in Comparative Perspective (with C. Gary_T._Marx | |
| Monique Truong Monique T.D. Truong (born 1968 in Saigon, South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Truong left Vietnam for the United States in 1975 and graduated from high school in Houston, Texas. She served in the past as an associate fiction editor for the Asian Pacific American Journal, a literary publication of the Asian American Workshop based in New York City Monique_Truong | |
| Drummer Hoff Drummer Hoff is the title and main character of a children's book by Barbara and Ed Emberley. Ed Emberley won the 1968 Caldecott Medal for the book's illustrations. Written by Barbara Emberley, it tells a tale of seven soldiers who build a cannon and Drummer Hoff, who fires it off, then the book exploding into a blast of colors.Parents of young children often refer to this book as "peace themed" because after the cannon is shot, there is an image of a cannon with birds nesting in the barrel, flowers growing around the base and a spider's web on the fuse. Drummer_Hoff | |
| Gray literature Gray literature is a term used variably by the intelligence community, librarians, and medical and research professionals to refer to a body of materials that cannot be found easily through conventional channels such as publishers, "but which is frequently original and usually recent" in the words of M.C. Gray_literature | |
| Serials crisis The term serials crisis has become a common shorthand to describe the chronic subscription cost increases of many scholarly journals . The prices of these institutional or library subscriptions have been rising much faster than the Consumer Price Index for several decades, while the funds available to the libraries have remained static or have declined in real terms. Serials_crisis | |
| Brave Story is a Japanese novel written by Miyuki Miyabe. The novel is available in the English language by Viz Media. The story follows high-school student Wataru Mitani as he stumbles upon "Vision", a fantasy world, after his mother's horrific traffic accident.Brave Story has spawned into a substantial media franchise. The novel was adapted into a manga by Yoichiro Ono. It was serialised in Shinchosha's Weekly Comic Bunch. Shincosha released the manga's twenty bound volumes between April 9, 2004 and May 9, 2008. Brave_Story | |
| Crobichaud User:Crobichaud | |
| Newsarama Newsarama is an American website that publishes news, interviews and essays about the American comic book industry. In addition, the site hosts an Internet forum for comic-book fans. Newsarama | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Archive 2 Talk:Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology/Archive_2 | |
| National Union Catalog National Union Catalog (NUC) is a printed catalog of books catalogued by the Library of Congress and other American and Canadian libraries, issued serially beginning in the 1950s. It also includes specialty catalogs such as the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC). National_Union_Catalog | |
| Montgomery County Memorial Library System Montgomery County Memorial Library System is a public library system in Montgomery County, Texas, United States.The system operates libraries in several Montgomery County cities and areas. Montgomery_County_Memorial_Library_System | |
| USA PATRIOT Act, Title III Talk:USA_PATRIOT_Act,_Title_III | |
| The Midwife's Apprentice The Midwife's Apprentice is a children's novel written by Karen Cushman. It tells of how a homeless waif becomes a midwife's apprentice--and establishes a name and a place in the world, and learns to hope and overcome failure. It won the John Newbery Medal in 1996. The_Midwife's_Apprentice | |
| Source text source text is a text (sometimes oral) from which information or ideas are derived. In translation, a source text is the original text that is to be translated into another language. Source_text | |
| Children's literature periodicals Children's_literature_periodicals | |
| Columbus Metropolitan Library The Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML), located in the capital city of Ohio, opened its doors in 1873 in the New City Hall in downtown Columbus.. Today CML is one of the most used libraries in the country. CML is ranked #1 in the United States for the third time by Hennen's American Public Library Rating Index for 1999, 2005 and 2008.The ranking is based on such categories as circulation of materials, patron visits per hour and number of volumes owned per capita. Columbus_Metropolitan_Library | |
| Scott Westerfeld Scott Westerfeld (born May 5 1963) is an American-born author of science fiction. He was born in the U.S. state of Texas and now lives in Sydney, Australia and New York City. His book Evolution's Darling was a New York Times Notable Book (2000), and won a Special Citation for the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award. The Risen Empire and The Killing of Worlds are parts one and two of the same book, originally titled Succession. In 2005 it was published in the UK as one book under the title The Risen Empire. Scott_Westerfeld | |
| Alice series Alice Series is a book series written by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. There are three prequels to this series. The first one, Starting with Alice, describes Alice in third grade. Alice in Blunderland is Alice in fourth grade. The final prequel, Lovingly Alice, follows Alice through the troubles of fifth grade. Alice_series | |
| Mem Fox Merrion Frances Partridge, who prefers Mem Fox, AM (born March 5, 1946) is an Australian writer of children's books and an educationalist specialising in literacy. Fox is semi-retired and lives in Adelaide with her husband and dog. Mem_Fox | |
| A Northern Light A Northern Light (2003) is a multiple award-winning American historical novel by Jennifer Donnelly. In the UK it was published under the alternative title A Gathering Light. It is based the Big Moose Lake murder case of 1906, a real event, but unlike Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, also based on the murder, Donnelly's book is concerned more with the life of a young girl who gets caught up in it. A_Northern_Light | |
| J. Yellowlees Douglas Jane Yellowlees Douglas is an Associate Professor of Management Communication at the University of Florida. She has spent much of the past decade researching hypertext fiction and interactive fiction. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan and received her PhD from New York University. Her works with electronic literature have resulted in over two dozen articles about hypertext and narrative. J._Yellowlees_Douglas | |
| University of California, Berkeley Library System The University of California, Berkeley's 32 constituent and affiliated libraries together make it the fourth largest academic library in the United States, surpassed only by the Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale. As of 2006, Berkeley’s library system contains over 10 million volumes and maintains over 70,000 serial titles.The libraries together cover over of land and compose one of the largest library complexes in the world. University_of_California,_Berkeley_Library_System | |
| Osprey Publishing Talk:Osprey_Publishing | |
| Kathleen Ann Goonan Kathleen Ann Goonan (born 14 May 1952) is an American science fiction writer. Several of her books have been nominated for the Nebula Award. Her debut novel Queen City Jazz was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and her most recent novel In War Times was chosen by the American Library Association as Best Science Fiction Novel for their 2008 reading list. In July of 2008, In War Times won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Kathleen_Ann_Goonan | |
| Many Moons Many Moons is a children's picture book written by James Thurber and illustrated by Louis Slobodkin. It was published by Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1943 and won the Caldecott Medal in 1944. Princess Lenore becomes ill, and only one thing will make her betterThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty and his fables, this story shows a crisis between males and females that ends happily for all. Many_Moons | |
| Harvard University/Archive 1 Talk:Harvard_University/Archive_1 | |
| Stardust (novel) Talk:Stardust_(novel) | |
| Fade (novel) Fade is a young adult novel by Robert Cormier. Fade_(novel) | |
| Censorship/archive03-2006 Wikipedia_talk:Censorship/archive03-2006 | |
| Maggie Brooks Maggie A. Brooks (born 1955) is a broadcasting personality and politician most notable for having served as the first female county executive of Monroe County, New York.Brooks graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in Political Science in 1977. Her first job out of college was as a general assignment reporter for WHAM (AM) in Rochester, New York. Maggie_Brooks | |
| School library A school library (or a school library media center) is a library within a school where students, staff, and often, parents of a public (state) or private (fee paying) school have access to a variety of resources. The goal of the school library media center is to ensure that all members of the school community have equitable access "to books and reading, to information, and to information technology." pes of media...is automated, and utilizes the Internet School_library | |
| Catherine, Called Birdy Catherine, Called Birdy is the first children's novel written by Karen Cushman. It was published in 1994, and it won the Newbery Honor in 1995. PlOtMedieval England in 1290, Catherine, the spirited daughter of Sir Rollo and Lady Aislinn, has been asked by her brother Edward, the monk, to keep a journal; she begins writing it when she's 13 and ends at 14. "Catherine, called Birdy" is her journal, and describes all her travels, thoughts, and activities. Catherine,_Called_Birdy | |
| Recorded history Recorded history (sometimes called record history) can be defined as human history that has been written down or recorded by the use of language. It starts in the 4th millennium BC, with the invention of writing. The period before this is known as prehistory. Recorded_history | |
| Articles for creation/2006-04-27 Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/2006-04-27 | |
| Brother Odd Brother Odd is a novel by Dean Koontz, published in 2006. The novel is the third book in Koontz's series focusing on a man named Odd Thomas. Brother_Odd | |
| Daddy's Roommate Daddy's Roommate is a children's book written by Michael Willhoite and published by Alyson Books in 1991 (ISBN 1555831184). The book, about a young boy whose divorced father now lives with his gay partner, deals with the controversial subject of homosexual parents.Daddy's Roommate was one of the first children's books to portray homosexuality in a positive light; the two men do the same things heterosexual couples dochallenged books in recent years with the American Library Association listing it at number 2 in their list of the 100 most challenged books from 1990-2000. Daddy's_Roommate | |
| And Tango Makes Three And Tango Makes Three is a 2005 children's book written by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson and illustrated by Henry Cole. The book is based on the true story of Roy and Silo, two male Chinstrap Penguins in New York's Central Park Zoo who for six years formed a couple. And_Tango_Makes_Three |
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