Library Lovers Month

February is Library Lover's Month. For ideas on how to celebrate go to: http://www.librarysupport.net/librarylovers/ I liked the one that said "take a librarian to lunch".

E-Readers

A press release from Amazon said "On Christmas Day, for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books" http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1369429&highlight= What does this mean for libraries? Should we have books to download to the kindle or other e-reader? Is something else going to pop up this year that will even create more changes for libraries? Lots of questions and no answers, but exciting times for sure.

Give a book

I'm giving my Grandkids books for Christmas. I actually have a big stack, but they aren't in yet. What books are you giving?

National Novel Writing Month

November is National Novel Writing Month and Nebraska Center for the Book is having a festival with two writing workshops on November 14th. Now is the time to write that novel that has been floating around in your mind!

National Reading Group Month

October is National Reading Group month. To find great reads for your reading group, check out the National Reading Group website. http://www.nationalreadinggroupmonth.org/ Links to book groups and book choices are numerous. Another interesting and really fun book group idea is the Pulpwood Queen's Book Group http://www.beautyandthebook.com/ Tiara required!

The Usual Mistakes is one of the books RVLS has available for BookGroups. See http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/system/republican/Booksets%20available.pdf for the whole list or http://nebookclub.pbworks.com/ for sets available state-wide.

Banned Books Week

Read Banned Books.
Speak Your Mind.
Know the First Admendment.
Celebrate Banned Books Week. September 26-October 3, 2009

Trustee CE

If you weren't able to come to Hastings for the Trustee workshop, you can watch it at your leisure and receive the same number of CE. You just don't get the yummy bread and jam! Here is the link: http://nlc.blip.tv/ Each board member or librarian will get 2.5 CE credits for watching this on-line. Here is the link to submit your CEU's http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/libdev/trustees/PLBrdCertCEU.asp