Posts tagged books
The catch phrase “Book ‘em, Danno” will take on a new meaning as the city bolsters its child literacy efforts by stocking police substations and cruisers with reading materials for children and families.
How is your library building community in your cities and towns?
Book ban request fails — again
Steve McQueen became a box office star when he drove a 1968 Ford Mustang GT to its limits while portraying a police detective in the movie “Bullitt.”
In his personal life, the popular movie star moved even faster — he was married three times, professionally raced cars, drank and smoked heavily and reportedly the police once found a hit list with his name on it.
But not everyone thinks his biography — “Steve McQueen, King of Cool: Tales of a Lurid Life” — should be on the shelves of the Flagstaff City-Coconino County Public Library.
The book was one of a handful that have been “challenged” by library patrons over the last few years in an attempt to have them removed or placed in a specific section of the building, explains Heidi Holland, the director for the local library district.
We’re trying something new on our Pinterest page this week! I’ve asked library staff to post book recommendations they’re making in real-time as they have particularly great readers’ advisory interactions. This way, we can go beyond recommending great books to the general Internet, and try to match our recommendations to particular people and reading situations more specifically. Book peeping with a purpose. Thoughts?
(As a side note, one of the reasons we are trying this is because our catalog has Pin It buttons, so it’s pretty easy to do from anywhere in the bulding. If you want to pin book covers for yourself, note that our catalog has a Pin It button under each book cover. You don’t need to be in the library or even have a Darien Library account to use it, either.)
If you aren’t following Darien Library on Pinterest? Then what are you doing on Pinterest? (Wasting your time, that’s what.)
Pagebending
via ~Enacragus
As Bolin might say, ‘rock solid.’
Here’s an ingenious idea. Now that the internet is available almost anywhere, people are able to do “instant research” to learn about anything on their smart devices. For a fictional project, Miami Ad School students Max Pilwat, Keri Tan and Ferdi Rodriguez developed subway campaign that allows people to grab the first ten pages of a book while riding the subway using near field communications. Once finished they will be informed of the closest libraries so they could finish their story.
The campaign is admirable in the sense that it’s aim is to get people to the library but what’s to stop the person from simply downloading the book from Amazon or somewhere else on the internet once they leave the subway instead of going to the library.
In any event, getting people to read is the key whether they do it with a book from the library or on their digital device.
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