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Having my own daughter enjoy reading, writing and sharing her experiences with me and her dad is extremely important to me. Every night I read with her and we sing all the time! Reading has to be made fun, books are fabulous for the imagination and to help little personalities grow. Every parent should join the library, or just buy one book and share the joy of literature with their children.
Actor Natalie Cassidy on the importance of reading and the Words For Life campaign (http://www.wordsforlife.co.uk).
Source: CILIP Update magazine, April 2012. http://www.cilip.org.uk
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If parents had an extra 30 minutes to spend with their children, one in seven would spend it reading them a story, according to a new survey. Reading was the third most popular choice, with playing a board game second. They survey was conducted for children’s food range Junior’s Pantry and found that outdoor activities was what most parents would do, with more than half of respondents choosing it.
Playing a board game beat reading a story with your child? Oh dear. Find those 30 minutes (or even 15) parents!
Source:
News Briefs, CILIP Update magazine, April 2012. http://www.cilip.org.uk
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Bookslinger:: Library Fact #77
Librarians cannot tell if the books in your hands are overdue.
We don’t even know if they’re checked out.
We can’t smell an overdue book and there is not special sixth library sense.
It’s up to you, the patron, to be on top of your game and know when your ish is due. We see too many people every day to stop and think, “You know, I haven’t seen Tom here in weeks! His book must be overdue. Tisk.”
Nope. Heck, we won’t even get mad at you if you come up and say, “Hey, I’ve got some late fees.” We appreciate it when you are honest and pay them. It’s when you argue with us that we have a problem.
In fact, librarians are pretty cool people after all.
This is true. However we wonder if we haven’t seen our regulars for a while, but we wonder if they are okay, not if their books are overdue. We don’t have a sixth sense about late books, but I do seem to have a sixth sense if a book is on a shelf and shouldn’t be there due to it belonging to another borough’s library service!
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I heart the library
Us too.
Posted on April 18, 2012 via JYHS Library with 18 notes
Source: jyhslibrary
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Neil deGrasse Tyson on the importance of NASA, of ambitions and for the improvement of the world.
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Librarian by knitted fresh daily on Flickr.
While working at my library I’ll try to know each book.
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A home printed and laminated bookmark with the word ‘Mother’ on it. It was printed off from the website http://www.activityvillage.co.uk, which is an online resource for printable children’s activities such as colouring pages, crafts and puzzles, etc.
I am guessing that a child gave this to his/her mother, maybe for Mother’s day (it is from the Mothering Sunday printable bookmarks section of the website). I’m curious to know why it wasn’t coloured in before being laminated and presented.
There are lots of free bookmarks and bookplates that can be printed off from the site (http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/free_printable_bookmarks.htm). My favourites are the dinosaur bookmarks, complete with facts about the dinosaurs featured (http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/pdfs/dinosaur—bookmarks-factfile.pdf).
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For a long time I have been promising an encyclopaedia of Harry’s world, and I have started work on this – some of it forms the new content in Pottermore. It is likely to be a time-consuming job, but when finished I shall donate all royalties to charity.
JK Rowling, on the forthcoming Harry Potter Encyclopedia (via thelifeguardlibrarian)(via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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Posted on April 16, 2012 via Libraryland with 242 notes
Source: libraryland
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I want people without access to the internet at home to be able to use the computers. I want community information direct from the community. I want professional librarians to be able to offer professional advice, face-to-face, human to human. I like the storytime; the make-and-do; the exhibitions… and all those other things libraries have to offer. I want to keep the heart of the community at the heart of the community.
Original: Author Phillip Ardagh, Telegraph (British newspaper), 13th March 2012.
Where I saw it: LIS Talk article, CILIPUpdate magazine, April 2012.
The adventures of a Library Assistant working in a public library. This is a place for the odd things that sometimes occur at work, and a collection of bookmarks and objects found by myself and my colleagues within books in our library service. I also post other library and book related things.
