News & Views March 30, 2007

News March 30, 2007 (mp3 file; 4:50 minutes)




Links from today's podcast:

• Support Teen Literature Day
• Earth Day
• SWILSA Youth Services (watch for Earth Day ideas!)
• National TV Turnoff Week
• Dia de Los Nino/Dia de Los Libros

Reviewed by Marcia on today's podcast:

Your Public Library: Keeping Your Community Connected, DVD produced by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; 7:50 minutes.

News & Views

News March 23, 2007 (mp3 file: 6.48 MB, 6:55 min.)
Library buildings/spaces; The bedtime story



Book reviewed by Marcia this week:
The CREW method: expanded guidelines for collection evalution and weeding for small and medium-sized public libraries. Texas State Library and Archives Commission, 1995.

Note: SWILSA purchased a copy of this manual for every library in SW; if you do not have one please let Karen know.

News & Views

News March 16, 2007 (mp3 file: 4.87 MB, 5:10 min.)
Seeing through someone else's eyes



Books reviewed by Marcia this week:

• Close to home: library based family literacy [videorecording]
• Community collaborations for family literacy handbook, by Shelley Quezada and Ruth S. Nickse
• Family literacy programs, by Debra Wilcox Johnson
• Serving families and children through parterneships, by Sandra Feinberg and Sari Feldman
  

News & Views

News March 9, 2007 (mp3 file: 4.13 MB, 4:30 min.)




Books reviewed by Marcia this week:

• Spiders in the hairdo: modern urban legends, collected and retold by David Holt and Bill Mooney
• The celestial river: creation tales of the Milky Way, by Andrea Stenn Stryer

News & Views

News March 2, 2007 (mp3 file: 3.16 MB, 3:26 3min.)



Book reviewed by Marcia this week:
Summer reading program fun: 10 thrilling, inspiring, wacky board games for kids