Families prepare for the annual night of witches and goblins during “Halloween in the Grove: The Haunted Library” October 27 at Dallas Public Library’s Pleasant Grove branch—all coordinated by Teen Center members who
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Kennedy Decosta, age 8, decorates her trick-or-treating bag at Newport News (Va.) Public Library System’s Grissom branch during Halloween Family Fun Night. More than 70 children and families, most dressed in costumes, participated in
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Mango Languages offers a variety of courses and products designed to teach practical conversation skills in a fast, easy, and effective manner. Each lesson combines real life situations and audio from native speakers with simple, clear in
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B&N launching Nook Tablet for $249 on November 16th:
B&N isn’t taking the Amazon Kindle Fire sitting down. Not only are they announcing a new Nook Tablet, but they are cutting the price on both the Nook Color and the Touch. They are also adding
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A lot of library and ebook pundits (all five of us?) have been talking about it, but Amazon finally launched their Kindle Owner’s Lending Library. Well, really it’s more of the “Amazon Prime members ($79/year) who have an
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While libraries are learning the value of gaming, there is not currently a great deal of information available discussing standards for videogame collection development, and few libraries with game collections have published their policies. To help librarians
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By Erik Bobilin and Nicole Pagowsky
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As video games gain influence in our culture, the need to preserve them for future study gains importance as well.
“The computer game industry has had a major impact on the film industry,” said Richard Pugh of the Library of Congress
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By Greg Landgraf
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Like many libraries, Canton (Mich.) Public Library has traditionally operated a summer reading program to encourage children to keep reading through the summer months when they aren’t facing regular class assignments. But the librar
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By Greg Landgraf
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ST Imaging has announced STI ViewScan, technology to access and view microfilm libraries from anywhere in the world with internet availability. Users can access and view microform remotely, and selected images can also be scanned and emaile
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Amazon Launching E-Book Lending Library - WSJ.com:
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Kindle is set to launch its own lending library this Thursday, without the support of any of the Big 6 Publishers (Hachette, Harper-Collins, McMillan, Penguin, Random
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