Here's a helpful Web site to help with the pronunciation of author's names:
http://www.teachingbooks.net/pronunciations.cgi The authors and illustrators pronounce their own names and tell stories about their names. The featured authors are children's and YA authors. Helpful Hint: When I am unsure of the pronunciation of an author, a character, or a place name and I know I might need it in a book discussion, I check out the audio version and fast-forward to the parts I need.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
OverDrive
(Cleveland, OH) - March 19, 2008 - OverDrive® (www.overdrive.com), the leading digital book distributor to online retailers, libraries, and schools, announced today that it will expand its catalog of download audiobooks to include titles in MP3 format without DRM. Borders, Inc. (NYSE: BGP) will be the first bookseller to offer OverDrive MP3 Audiobooks without DRM at http://audiobooks.borders.com/and at Digital Centers inside select Borders store locations. OverDrive MP3 Audiobooks will be compatible with nearly every MP3 player and mobile phone on the market including iPod, Zune, iPhone, and Creative Labs products.OverDrive to Distribute MP3 Audiobooks to Booksellers and Libraries
OverDrive MP3 Audiobooks will go on sale in May at Borders.com with thousands of best-selling titles from Random House Audio, Blackstone Audiobooks, Hachette Book Group, Books In Motion, plus dozens of other publishers. The new catalog of MP3 titles for retail will be added to OverDrive’s catalog of approximately 20,000 DRM-protected digital audiobooks and over 100,000 eBooks in popular formats.
"OverDrive MP3 Audiobooks will dramatically increase the market for download spoken word titles through our global retail network," said Erica Lazzaro, OverDrive Senior Licensing Counsel. "Publishers, authors, and customers will benefit from MP3 compatibility of audiobooks with millions of mobile phones and MP3 players including the iPod."
OverDrive MP3 Audiobooks are engineered for ease-of-use, convenient navigation, and simple transfer to portable players. Long unabridged audiobooks are divided into parts for easy access by both dial-up and broadband users, simple point-and-click transfer to portable players, and easy burning to CD. OverDrive Media Console, a free software program installed on more than 2 million PCs, is specifically designed for audiobooks and includes advanced listening features such as bookmarking and play speed control. OverDrive also plans to release OverDrive Media
Console for Mac in conjunction with the launch of OverDrive MP3 Audiobooks.
Following the Borders.com retail launch in May, a limited selection of OverDrive MP3 Audiobooks will be added to OverDrive’s extensive library network. OverDrive MP3 Audiobooks for library lending will include thousands of award-winning titles from Blackstone Audio, Books In Motion, CSA Word, and Audio Evolution, among others.
About OverDrive, Inc.
OverDrive is a leading full-service digital distributor and supplier of eBooks, audio books, music, and video. We deliver secure management, DRM protection, and download fulfillment services for hundreds of publishers and institutions (rights holders) and thousands of libraries, schools, retailers, and aggregators serving millions of end users. Founded in 1986, OverDrive is based in Cleveland, OH. www.overdrive.com
Media Contact:David BurleighDirector of MarketingOverDrive, Inc.dburleigh@overdrive.com216-573-6886 Ext 218
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
New Books
- Helping Homeschoolers in the Library by Adrienne Furness
- Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by Göran Husman
- Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Unleashed by Michael Noel and Colin Spence
- Essential SharePoint 2007: Delivering High-Impact Collaboration by Scott Jamison and Mauro Cardarelli, with Susan Hanley
From:
DISPATCHES FROM
A PUBLIC LIBRARIAN
By SCOTT DOUGLAS
Dispatch 28 (3/3/08)
U.S. News & World Report recently selected librarian as one of the best careers for 2008. Were they right? I suppose it depends on whom you ask, but to help you decide I have compiled an objective list of the top reasons to be (or not to be) a librarian.
Ten reasons to be a librarian
You totally get to classify things.
Where else are you going to ruin a person's day over a 20-cent fine?
The funky glasses make you easily mistaken for a hipster.
You can make up whatever you want and people will believe you just because you're a librarian.
You get first dibs on unclaimed items in the lost-and-found box.
You get to be in charge of buying furniture that is least likely to show a piss stain.
Playing Scrabble on the Internet can be considered "professional development."
The most stressful thing that happens is arguing with people over why they cannot view their favorite pornography website.
Get to spend two hours designing a sign that says the library will be closed for the holidays.
No one says anything when you fall asleep during a meeting.
Who wants to go to grad school for two years to learn theory you will never use?
Those little punk teenagers on skateboards.
People kind of expect you to know things.
If you know enough about how to find information to be a good librarian, you can definitely make more money doing something else.
People automatically assume that you have some weird fetish for cats.
People expect you to help them find things when you are not working just because you know how.
Some people think you are weird because you classify things in your house—like clothes and dishes.
Writing library policy can be about as fun as watching paint dry.
Every great idea you have is likely to get shot down as soon as someone says, "Let's form a committee to decide things."
At some point in your career, someone will, or will try to, physically assault you over something incredibly lame (like not giving him or her more time on the Internet).
DISPATCHES FROM
A PUBLIC LIBRARIAN
By SCOTT DOUGLAS
Dispatch 28 (3/3/08)
U.S. News & World Report recently selected librarian as one of the best careers for 2008. Were they right? I suppose it depends on whom you ask, but to help you decide I have compiled an objective list of the top reasons to be (or not to be) a librarian.
Ten reasons to be a librarian
You totally get to classify things.
Where else are you going to ruin a person's day over a 20-cent fine?
The funky glasses make you easily mistaken for a hipster.
You can make up whatever you want and people will believe you just because you're a librarian.
You get first dibs on unclaimed items in the lost-and-found box.
You get to be in charge of buying furniture that is least likely to show a piss stain.
Playing Scrabble on the Internet can be considered "professional development."
The most stressful thing that happens is arguing with people over why they cannot view their favorite pornography website.
Get to spend two hours designing a sign that says the library will be closed for the holidays.
No one says anything when you fall asleep during a meeting.
Ten reasons not to be a librarian
Who wants to go to grad school for two years to learn theory you will never use?
Those little punk teenagers on skateboards.
People kind of expect you to know things.
If you know enough about how to find information to be a good librarian, you can definitely make more money doing something else.
People automatically assume that you have some weird fetish for cats.
People expect you to help them find things when you are not working just because you know how.
Some people think you are weird because you classify things in your house—like clothes and dishes.
Writing library policy can be about as fun as watching paint dry.
Every great idea you have is likely to get shot down as soon as someone says, "Let's form a committee to decide things."
At some point in your career, someone will, or will try to, physically assault you over something incredibly lame (like not giving him or her more time on the Internet).
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
New Materials
- Sudden Selector's Guide to Business Resources by Robin Bergart and Vivian Lewis
FYI : ALCTS/CMDS Sudden Selector's Series, #1
- Go Green! The Future of Libraries & Sustainable Communities - delivered 12/12/07 (Urban Libraries Council)
Monday, March 3, 2008
New Materials
- Fundamentals of Technical Services Management by Sheila S. Intner with Peggy Johnson
- Making Library Web Sites Usable: A LITA Guide by Tom Lehman and Terry Nikkel
- School Library Management (6th ed.) edited by Judi Repman and Gail Dickinson
- Libraries Prosper with Passion, Purpose and Persuasion!: A PLA Toolkit for Success by the Metropolitan Group in Collaboration with the PLA @ your library Task Force
FYI: Libraries Prosper with Passion, Purpose and Persuasion! will be presented at the 2008 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim on June 28 (1:30-3:30) by several of the members of the task force/authors.
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