Daily Archives Friday, July 2006

A Few Things

I've posted a couple interesting links over at Librarian Activist so go check them out if you have a chance. I did my “Book Talk” presentation today in Children's Lit.  A book talk is where you present a book to a classroom of children to encourage them to read it.  My presentation was pretty well […]

Friday Fun Link – July 14, 2006 (The Fifteeners: The Earliest Printed Books)

“Incunabula or incunables are the very first examples of books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed with moveable type in Western Europe. They range from the very first examples of the two-column Latin Bible produced by Johann Gutenberg in the 1450s to works printed through the end of the year 1500. The term “incunable” derives from the […]

Library School Bondage

Don't you love misleading titles for blog posts?  “Bonding With Your Classmates in Library School” would've probably been more accurate (but what fun would that be?) I wanted to record some of the things that our cohort has done (and things I've heard of other cohorts doing) that helped us bond and become a fairly […]