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Six weeks after cautioning it could shutter 22 public libraries, Miami-Dade County has found a way to keep all 49 facilities open at least some of the time, offering stripped-down services. In all, 169 librarians would lose their jobs by Oct. 1, and libraries would operate about three-quarters of the hours they do now, according to The Miami Herald.
Fair use is the broad, flexible doctrine that will allow libraries to meet mission in the digital age. A new embeddable infographic, developed by the Association of Research Libraries and American University’s College of Law and School of Communication, with funding from the Mellon Foundation, illustrates how librarians navigate in a sea of copyrighted material, [...]
On the same day that Ohio released its school report card data, the Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) announced it would hire a director to work with area schools. The library also will be reallocating a member of senior staff to focus entirely on advancing pre-K literacy.
The Queens Library branch in Cambria Heights, NY, celebrated the start of work on its new 4,000-square-foot Teen Center with a ceremonial wall-breaking last week. The library hopes to open the space—which will include a Cyber Center, a lounge and gaming area, a sound recording booth, a meeting room, and a reading room—by next spring.
Thirty-two titles from the “DC Super-Pets,” “DC Super Heroes: The Man of Steel,” “Superman,” and “Batman” series are now available as interactive ebooks from Capstone. Educators, student teams, gamers, or programmers can submit entries of games, math videos, infographics, or manipulatives to the WGBH Educational Foundation’s Innovation Math Challenge for prizes of $1,000.
A group of librarians and parents held a rally Wednesday morning in New York City to protest the city’s request for a waiver from state librarian staffing requirements. Standing on the steps of Tweed Courthouse, librarians said they couldn’t just be replaced by a computer in a classroom.
Do you know an innovative teen/youth services library professional making a real difference? Then Library Journal needs to hear from you to help identify emerging leaders in the library world.
Fans of Gina Damico's titles Croak and Scorch don't have much longer to wait for the final title in the series, Rogue, due on shelves soon. To keep readers' baited, Damico has just announced her 2013 Rogue Blog Tour. You'll need strong powers of observation to keep up with her on this tour, and you'll need to know all the letters of the English alphabet, too.
Wearing stilts and a trench coat, Raccoon absconds with a stolen pizza.
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