Libraries remain popular, but the American Library Association's State of American Libraries report also features a sobering message: school libraries have been devastated by budget cuts nationwide. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital Content Working Group co-chair Carolyn Anthony told members that ALA officials were "continuing to dialogue" with the Big Five publishers over ebook prices. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The two new awards, coupled with significant earlier support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Humanities, will help to establish the growth of DPLA’s "service hubs." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At the end of 2014, after a groundswell of media attention and public protests, New York Public Library officials abandoned a controversial renovation dubbed the Central Library Plan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In their modern public form, libraries continue to fill an essential role: to inform, engage, and delight people by making knowledge freely accessible. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Classroom Library Company has been awarded a nearly $9 million contract with the New York City Department of Education’s Core Curriculum program for its 2015-2016 Classroom Libraries. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Patterson originally announced that he would be donating $1.25 million to school libraries but now he's increasing the amount to $1.5 million. 'I’m blown away by the number of parents and teachers who have shared the urgent needs of their community’s school library,” the author said in a... Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The author also recently donated funds for British and Irish schools as well as independent bookstores. 'I hope we’re able to increase awareness about the vital role that school libraries and librarians play in transforming lives and fostering a love for learning,' Patterson said of his new... Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The author also recently donated funds for British and Irish schools as well as independent bookstores. 'I hope we’re able to increase awareness about the vital role that school libraries and librarians play in transforming lives and fostering a love for learning,' Patterson said of his new... Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After funding school libraries in the UK via a World Book Day award, author James Patterson is launching a similar scheme in the US. The author is donating $250,000 (£165,527) to American school libraries through a grant programme administered by Scholastic Reading Club, a division of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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CILIP Scotland will later this month launch an advocacy strategy for school libraries, pledging to campaign for libraries at national level. In the document, CILIP Scotland pledges to commission research on the impact of school libraries and librarians, provide advice and support to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author James Patterson is donating £50,000 to a new prize that will fund school libraries. The World Book Day Award, launched today (9th January), offers schools in the UK and Ireland the chance to win money to buy books from local bookshops to stock their libraries. Six lump sums are on up for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scotland's Falkirk council is consulting on cuts to its school library service (SLS) which managers say would wipe out the service. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Russell Brand described schools without a library as a "disgrace", and said public libraries closures were driven by a "fundamentalist philosophy of profit", in an entertaining and enthusiastically received Reading Agency Lecture last night (Tuesday 25th November). The comedian and author told... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Library Campaign has termed the new report from the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee into the activities of Arts Council England a "damp squib". In the report, released yesterday (5th November), the CMS Committee criticised ACE for its bias in funding projects in the capital, but... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a novel take on the dangers of book burning, up to four libraries in Hertfordshire could be relocated into the area’s part-time fire stations. Hertfordshire County Council has received £700,000 of government funding for the scheme, which it called “pioneering”. The funding will see up to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wales should seek to develop a nationally coordinated library service as a longterm goal, according to a new report into Welsh libraries. The Welsh Public Libraries Review was commissioned at the end of last year by the culture minister John Griffiths and carried out over the first half of 2014... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new report from the Aspen Institute looks at the importance of U.S. public libraries, and how they can change and improve to meet new roles in the 21st Century. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trajectory and Diamond Comics Distributors announced an initiative at New York Comic Con to provide an expanded catalogue of digital comics and graphic novels to schools and libraries. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Glasgow School of Art replaces 22% of its most popular books that were lost in a fire at its Mackintosh building in June. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2014-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new report from the Pew Research Center Internet Project offers mixed news for public libraries. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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