100 Useful Links for eBook Lovers

Here are 100 useful links for ebook lovers.

Born Digital resources

As we continue reading Born Digital, here are a couple of links which might be of interest in our journey of understanding the first generation of digital natives: main website with information about the book and links to the project's resources; and a pbs-sponsored webinar featuring John Palfrey (scroll down to "Teaching and Learning with Digital Natives") with links to both audio and video versions.

Recent Reads

When seventeen-year-old Peter Houghton decides to get revenge on peers who have bullied him since his first days of school, he chooses to take a gun to school and kills ten people. Set in Sterling, New Hampshire, Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult investigates the impact a high school shooting has on the surrounding community. Picoult realistically portrays the detrimental effects social hierarchies may pose on students in public schools. At the end of this novel, Peter’s mother asks, "Everyone would remember Peter for nineteen minutes of his life, but what about the other nine million?" Complete with dynamic character relationships, this is a must read for those working in America’s schools.

Kindle vs. iPhone?

Take a look at the article published in today’s Christian Science Monitor entitled “What’s Hot on iPhone? Books, books, books!” The article claims the creation of book-related apps has exceeded the number of apps created for games for the fourth-straight month! With so many using iPhones and iPod touch devices, will the Kindle seize to exist?

Ideas from the YALSA blog

How can librarians act to embrace the idea that of the school library as a destination place – where it’s OK for teens go to hang out and spend time? What makes a library more than a supermarket where students grab things they need and run? Could these ideas shared on the YALSA blog work?

* Hours that go beyond the traditional 9 to 5 or 9 to 9 model? Do successful hangout places for teens open early and stay open late?
* Staff across library departments that is welcoming, interested, and willing to build relationships?
* Flexible furniture that is easy to move around and that promotes sitting and talking with friends and peers?
* Space that actually has space for moving around, standing and talking, and even sitting on the floor?
* More than a collection of books and what’s in the collection (books, media, technology, etc.) is of interest to teens 2009/2010 and not just favorites of current or past librarians, staff, parents, etc.?
* A place where teens know their ideas are welcome, supported, and even acted upon?

How Everything Changed

Watch the video promotion of a new book ordered at the New Trier Library.

From Kirkus:
"An enormously entertaining cultural and social history...Without preaching, Collins shows the sexism that women (and men) once accepted as the norm, and she backs up her often eye-opening stories with hard facts and solid statistics.... Collins can be deadly serious and great fun to read at the same time. A revelatory book for readers of both sexes, and sure to become required reading for any American women's-studies course."