In a world where it seems at times that there is more tragedy than good, people sometimes turn to books for comfort and understanding. A recent article from Galleycat highlights books and online resources to help families explain tragedy to children. Another article from The Guardian’s Helen Humphreys lists her top ten books on grieving and how each book can relate to different types of grief experiences. Perhaps, having the right book at a very wrong time is just what is needed to make things a little bit easier.
Summer Reading in NY Libraries Resources
The 2013 summer reading season is only a month away. Please remember to check out the great resources on the www.summerreadingnys.org website. The librarian and educators section is filled with resources and over the next few weeks additional resources for parents, teens, and children are being added. Full details about the Teen Video Challenge winners has just been posted.
For the latest information all summer long please check out the Summer Reading News blog
A recent post includes an update from the CSLP Annual meeting with information about ordering, slogans, themes, etc.
Please send DLD any news about your summer programs and they will be happy to share on our their blogs.
OCLC’s New Program Spotlights Libraries
“Libraries can increase their visibility on the Web by registering basic local information with the OCLC Library Spotlight program—a free service that works with popular Web services to promote libraries. Yelp, the popular local directory service, has agreed to be one of the first to work with OCLC on this new program.
OCLC uses information from a variety of sources to prepopulate location and contact information for thousands of libraries. The OCLC Library Spotlight program takes this a step further, providing a single, easy-to-use interface in which any library can add, edit and update its own information once, in order to populate multiple Web destinations. Initial data was taken from the WorldCat Registry, but libraries can add a variety of information, including pictures and links to services, social content and collections. A custom, mobile-optimized link allows libraries to easily publish information to smartphones and other mobile devices.Continue reading