The Interrogation of School Librarians

What an insult!  From the Los Angeles Times -- an article about the interrogation of school librarians requiring them to prove they are teachers!

"If state education cuts are drastic, the librarians' only chance of keeping a paycheck is to prove they're qualified to be switched to classroom teaching. So LAUSD attorneys grill them."

Pew report on electronic devices

The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project published these results:
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Anatomy of a Librarian

Anatomy of a Librarian

Disguise your Kindle

Do you have a Kindle, but miss holding a physical book?  Do you want to hide your Kindle so others won't know you are reading it?  The solution may be an ebook safe.  Coming soon to the ereader market....

Next Generation Digital Book

Next Generation Digital Book presented by Mike Matas at TED.

 'Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad -- with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is "Our Choice," Al Gore's sequel to "An Inconvenient Truth." '


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Miss Marple redone

Hmmmmm.   Have really mixed feelings about this one.  Disney is going to "reboot" the Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in a new film series with Jennifer Garner as Ms. Marple (assuming the title will change with the new youthful Miss Marple).   I like the actress (the Alias series was great), but I am so used to seeing Margaret Rutherford, Angela Lansbury or Joan Hixson playing the eldering Miss Marple, I'm not sure how I will like this new young, svelte detective.
Also, a nosy, busy-body old woman is a little more accepting than a young, interfering know-it-all.  We'll see....

Mary Higgins Clark WSJ interview

I've been reading Mary Higgins Clark forever.  Though I love Michael Connelly, Jeffrey Deaver, Patricia Cornwell, Karin Slaughter and John Sandford, sometimes I like a break from gritty reality and will read a novel by Mary Higgins Clark.
According to the Wall Street Journal, there "are some things you'll never find in a Mary Higgins Clark novel: an unmarried couple living together, a curse word, a body hacked to pieces. By today's standards, Ms. Clark's thrillers are quaint throwbacks, more in the Agatha Christie mold than the blood-curdling, titillating fare produced by best-selling writers such as James Patterson and Stieg Larsson."
The WSJ article has lots of interesting tidbits about the author.  I wonder when she will be signing books at my local Wegmans?