Ray Oldenburg a établi une typologie présentant les caractéristiques du troisième lieu dans son livre. 1- Un espace neutre et vivant : propice à un échange informe entre tous les membres de la communauté. Ces espaces agissent comme niveleur social où les individus se positionnent sur un même pied d’égalité. Via David Gunn, Michelle Bourque 
"The Libraries Yes! campaign is one of the most innovative approaches I’ve encountered in place-based advocacy. Using a strategy that emphasized geosocial check-ins and recommendations on Facebook Places, Yelp, Foursquare, and Google Places, the Libraries Yes! campaign built a targeted list of engaged supporters for a library ballot measure in just seven weeks. What is more, the measure passed by over 4:1 on May 15, 2012. The secret behind their success: good old fashioned organizing combined with a geosocial online strategy." -- spotted by @nancyquinn Via Doug Mirams 
Download hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer. Via Luca Baptista 
But if everyone’s connected, how do the feds account for the million-plus hours booked at Nova Scotia’s 209 CAP sites last year? Librarians are experts. They don’t wile away their days reshelving books and reading Jane Austen. They help students with assignments, support literacy and bring working writers into schools. Public librarians “teach, blog, Tweet, collect materials and train staff," says Darlene Beck, branch manager at the Spring Garden Road Memorial Library in Halifax.
-Lezlie Lowe @ The Chronicle Herald 
A Tennessee school district has banned John Green's award-winning novel Looking for Alaska (Dutton, 2005) from the school curriculum.
-Lauren Barach @ SLJ 
Marketing toolkit for online resources - includes sample tweets and posts. (English only) 
The online retail giant is tapping its huge customer base and vast technical underpinnings to reshape the way books, movies, and television programs are made. Read this blog post by Jay Greene on Internet & Media. 
Public libraries are a major hub through which Americans gain access to e-books and other digital resources, but these institutions' role in the digital transition hasn't been made easy by the nation's recent economic troubles. Via Miguel Mimoso Correia The PEI Public Library Service presents a new and exciting selection for the 2012 One Book One Island Book Club. 
An Elsipogtog man is offering a free job-finding service to help people in the eastern New Brunswick community combat a high level of unemployment. Via Patricia_Kn The Ontario Library Association has revealed the winners of the 2012 Forest of Reading Awards. The winners in categories for school-age children were announced in front of more than 8,000 kids at the annual Festival of Trees, which took place May 15–16 at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre. 
obo is to join the ranks of physical and online booksellers licensed by Pottermore to sell Harry Potter e-books. The Canadian-based global retailer of e-books and e-readers announced this morning (17th May) that all seven of J K Rowling’s Harry Potter books are now on sale to Kobo customers through the Pottermore store.
-Lisa Campbell @ The Bookseller 
New Brunswick novelist Riel Nason, whose The Town That Drowned won the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, was one of nine East Coast authors to take home prizes at the Atlantic Book Awards in St. John’s on Thursday night. |
Fifteen-year-old Florida resident Lilli Leight wanted to help provide homeless kids in her community with access to books, so she created a "giving library" at a Miami homeless shelter. To staff the library, she formed a teen book club to encourage her classmates to volunteer. Her effort won her the National Book Foundation's Innovations in Reading prize, which recognizes individuals and institutions for developing ways of instilling a lifelong love of reading.
-Liz Dwyer @ Good Education Via Buffy J. Hamilton 
Have you noticed how guys are being portrayed in movies lately? Unless you've been living under a rock you've seen at least one of these: Knocked Up, Failure to Launch, Hall Pass, Old School, or the Jackass series. All the leading male characters are presented as expendable losers usually incapable of taking responsibility for themselves, often plotting intricate but seldom realized plans to get laid, and generally running the opposite direction of any kind of commitment. As entertaining as these movies can be, what are the effects these stereotypes of men have on the young guys growing up watching them?
-Dr. Philip Zimbardo and Nikita Duncan @ The Huffington Post 
Teachers and librarians may feel like they’re drowning in a sea of educational apps. Developers feel the same way, with smaller shops lacking big marketing budgets unable to get their products in front of targeted users. Enter the Education Evaluation Program from Happi Papi. The program, just launched, involves a consortium of developers who distribute apps to teachers and librarians free of charge.
-Lauren Barack @ The Digital Shift 
Create and take home a quirky musical instrument and amp! Blend everyday objects with the power of basic tech and walk away with a fully functioning sonic manipulator. Plug straight into a baby amp and produce some hot new individual and collaborative tunes. 
The Winnipeg Public Library is running a pretty cool contest called The Last Word on First Words with some pretty cool prizes. All you have to do to win is tell them why in 250 words or less which piece of Indigenous writing you recommend and why. Via Patricia_Kn 
...Plusieurs bibliothèques organisent des manifestations à l'instar de la BM de la Part-Dieu, à Lyon, par le biais de son centre de ressources sur le genre, le point G, qui proposait le mercredi 16 mai au soir la projection du film d'animation de Sébastien Watel, Le baiser de la lune, racontant les amours de deux poissons garçons pour un public d'enfants entre huit et dix ans (CM1, CM2). La séance, en présence du réalisateur, se poursuivait par un débat sur l'opportunité et les modalités de telles projections face à un public jeune. Via David Gunn 
Whether it was Buffy the Vampire Slayer's protector-cataloguer Rupert Giles or Noah Wyle's swashbuckling character in the The Librarian series, bibliothécaires have managed to make a name for themselves in pop culture. 
Les 1er et 2 juin prochain aura lieu le 5ème Forum des Enseignants Innovants et de l'Innovation Pédagogique (FEIIP) à Orléans. Parmi les participants, Nadya Benyounes, chargée de mission au CRDP de Rouen, présente le projet tablettes numériques mené avec Sophie Bocquet, professeur documentaliste du collège Matisse de Grand-Couronne. Leur projet mêle l'utilisation de tablettes tactiles, de Twitter et d'autres outils numériques et porte sur de nombreux domaines (réseaux sociaux, éducation aux médias, maîtrise de l'information, écriture collective...). Mais demandons plutôt à ces deux « geek », fondues de nouveauté et curieuses, ce qu'il en est vraiment... Via Mediamus 
Canada Post has cemented Franklin the Turtle's status as a Canadian kidlit icon by unveiling a series of stamps featuring the hero in a half-shell.
-Natalie Samson @ Quillblog 
Ellen DeGeneres, the popular comedian and talk show host who also portrayed the first prime-time TV character to come out as gay, has been named winner of the prestigious Mark Twain Prize. 
“We see amazing future opportunities with Kobo’s focus on social reading, Pinterest’s visual communication of things consumers love, and the e-commerce engine of Rakuten to one day create another avenue for consumers to engage online,” says Kobo spokesperson Cerys Goodall in a press release. |
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