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Taking down the book display on history-making women after the election.

#librarian #schoollibrarylife #election 2016

One of my favourite parts of cataloguing is opening up a book and seeing its secrets. For example, this book has different endpapers in the front and back of the book. At the front, we have ninjas, cowboys, superheros, and other "masculine" figures doing independent activities. In the back, they are all getting support and love from their fathers.

#undercovers #booklife #librarian #cataloguing

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Storytime.

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If I ever become a classroom teacher, this.

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OverDrive was sold to Rakuten, a Japanese company today for $410 million. It’s a cash deal and is scheduled to close next month (April 2015). Overdrive will be part of Rakuten USA. Rakuten is an e-commerce company headquartered in Japan. Here’s a list of Rakuten’s major businesses.

Big, big news for libraries.Rakuten also bought ebook reader company Kobo a few years ago.

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This could be good news or terrible news. Rakuten is a huge company with huge buying power – obviously, as they bought Overdrive in cash money! This could mean maybe more publishers on board and more innovations. I certainly hope this means better access to your library’s digital holdings for patrons with Kobos, since Rakuten will now own both. Better still, I would love to see Rakuten negotiate a better deal for Kindle owners to borrow Overdrive books – one that is less creepy and invasive.

The terrible news, I can’t fathom. Folding as a service is my guess.

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https://ca.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-aura-one?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Responsys_CRM&utm_campaign=00003

Better access to your library’s digital holdings for patrons with Kobos! I hope this isn’t just a this-device-exclusive, but it is a very big start.

#ereaders #kobo #atyourlibrary #librarylife

People may joke that others spend too much time on the internet, but this intricate series of tubes has become an important part of everyday life—so much so that it’s become a human rights violation to take it away.

So how will this effect libraries, who have made it something of a mission in the last twenty years to close the “digital divide.” Can we argue that defunding or underfunding libraries is an act designed to “intentionally prevent or disrupt access to our dissemination of information online”? For many people, especially in disenfranchised groups or small/remote communities, the library is their internet access point, beyond providing storytimes and the latest James Patterson.

#libraries #digital divide

Deaccessioning my childhood. But seriously, what child born in 2008 would even dream of picking up this book out of context? #librarylife #weeding

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In June, we weed. #schoollibrarylife #weeding

#weeding #schoollibrarylife

Like a lot of avid readers, I enjoyed Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up but bristled when it came to the section about books. The gist of her now-famous method is this: go through…

Or, “that part of Marie Kondo’s book that I skipped.”

#konmari #booklife

Further Adventures of School Librarian

"... And that website went viral in 1998." - one of my students describing her web sources at the end of her presentation.

(I didn't have the heart to correct her, I was too busy trying to keep a straight face.)

#atyourlibrary #viral #research skills

Numbers released by the Newfoundland and Labrador Public Libraries (NLPL) show local libraries used heavily in many rural areas are now set to close.

Stop using the library, guys. You’re getting in the way of our agenda.

Sincerely, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.

#atyourlibrary #library closed #newfoundland

Why did I wait so long to use a mechanical pencil? This one is amazing and worth every penny.

I woke up today feeling literally sick with exhaustion. So I decided to accessorise my outfit (essentially fancy pajamas) with this vintage bookworm pin. #killingit #librarylife

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