News & Views January 26, 2007

News January 26, 2007 (mp3 file; 7:17 min.)




Links from Today's Podcast:

• THE Pathfinder Project
• Dreama's Computer Help Sheets
• Puppets available for loan from SWILSA

Books Reviewed by Marcia in Today's Podcast:

• Amazingly Easy Puppet Plays: 42 New Scripts for One-Person Puppetry by Dee Anderson
• One-Person Puppet Plays by Denise Anton Wright
• How to Do "The Three Bears" with Two Hands: Performing with Puppets by Walter Minkel
• Puppet Tales by Valerie Marsh
• Leading Kids to Books Through Puppets by Caroline Feller Bauer
• Worlds of Shadow: Teaching with Shadow Puppetry by David Wisniewski

News & Views January 19, 2007

News January 19, 2007 (mp3 file; 7:33 min.)



Books and videos reviewed by Sue on today's podcast:

• The Shelf Elf by Jackie Mims Hopkins
• What Happened to Marion's Book? by Brook Berg
• Library Celebrations by Cindy Dingwall
• More Than Just Books: An Introduction to the Library for Adults; VHS; 11:15 min.
• Find It All at the Library: An Introduction to the Library for Children; VHS; 10 min.

Books reviewed by Marcia on today's podcast:

• Bare Bones Young Adult Services: Tips for Public Library Generalists by Renee J. Vaillancourt
• Connecting Young Adults and Libraries: How-To-Do It Manual by Patrick Jones; 2nd edition

News & Views

News January 12, 2007
(mp3 file: 9.28 MB, 9:54 min)



Links from Today's podcast:

Continuing Education Survey (SW Iowa Librarians only, please)
CE Catalog, State Library of Iowa website
Reader's Theater Editions
Lisa Blau's "Readers Theatre Scripts of the Month"

Books reviewed by Marcia on today's podcast:

• Celebrations, by Caroline Feller Bauer
• Libary celebrations, by Cindy Dingwall
• Storybook birthday parties, by Cindy Dingwall
• Holiday activity ideas, by Ivan Kearns and Curt Shreiner
  

News & Views 1-5-07

News January 5, 2007
(mp3 file: 5.1 MB, 5:25 min)




Links from Today's podcast:

National Library Week, ALA website
ALA's Recommended Reading
SWILSA's Current Announcements

Books reviewed by Marcia on today's podcast:

• Podcasting for dummies
• Web 2.0 and libraries: best practices for social software, by Michael Stephens (Library Technology Reports)
• Blogging and RSS: a librarian's guide, by Michael P.Sauers