The Reader's Shelf, collection development features, collection management articles, and roundups of subjects on the verge.
Heartland Horticulture By Bonnie L. Poquette - 11/01/2009
Midwestern gardeners are legendary for enduring and outwitting winter, with its heavy snowpack and recurring freezes and thaws. Most of them also reckon with a relatively short growing period. All of them find their horticultural plans complicated by hot, humid summers. In fact, the Midwest deals with four seasons dictating special considerations for plants, pests, and chores! This article use... More
35 Going on 13: The Best YA for Adults 2009 By Angelina Benedetti, King Cty. Lib. Syst., WA - 11/19/2009
Here are 12 books, engagingly paired, that represent the very best YA for adults in 2009. The best nonfiction? The best character-driven studies? It’s all here for anyone who’s 35 going on 13.
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Top Twenty Holds from Hennepin County Library By Anna Katterjohn - 11/19/2009
Behind every best seller you're likely to find a library hold. See what patrons are lining up to read at the Hennepin County (MN) Library, where local mystery author William Kent Krueger is among popular authors Patricia Cornwell, Nicholas Sparks, and Malcolm Gladwell.
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Parenting Short Takes: Ethics & "Endless Adolescence" By Julianne J. Smith, Ypsilanti Dist. Lib., MI - 11/19/2009
From feeding the youngest eaters to getting your college grad to enter the real world, this month’s Short Takes offers something for parents at every stage of the journey. The diversity of materials required for a strong parenting collection is on my mind right now as I weed my library’s.
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Flying the Friendly Skies! Edited by Neal Wyatt - 11/15/2009
Humans have always had a desire to fly. From Leonardo da Vinci and his studies and drawings of flight to Orville and Wilbur Wright's flying machine to Amelia Earhart and her famous disappearance, the world has always craved learning about those daring individuals who have risked life and limb to soar.
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ShelfRenewal Rebecca Vnuk, Adult Services Director, Glen Ellyn (IL) Public Library November 8, 2009 Gleeful Reading
*Note to our Loyal Readers: This was originally posted on our site last month, ... More
ShelfRenewal Rebecca Vnuk, Adult Services Director, Glen Ellyn (IL) Public Library October 29, 2009 Web Crush of the Week: Bookgasm
In honor of the Halloween weekend, we decided this week's Web Crush of the Week will ... More
In the Bookroom Wilda Williams, , Library Journal August 14, 2009 Happy Birthday, Julia Child!
August 15 marks what would have been Julia Child's 97th birthday. And what better gif... More
Design Institute 2007 December 11, 2007 at Chicago's Harold Washington Library Center:Design Institute 2007
Learning Gardens New York's GreenBranches program links the library to the street.
Green Picks: LBD May 2007 Want to reduce your library's carbon footprint? Join the Cradle-to-Cradle revolution. Helen Milling shares the green products her firm is using.
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