The ALA-Children’s Book Council (CBC) Joint Committee, with cooperation from the ALSC’s Quicklists Consulting Committee, has created the four bibliographies below, "Building a Home Library," to provide guidance to parents, grandparents, and others interested in assembling a high-quality library for their children at home.
At a packed session for academic librarians attending the annual meeting of the American Library Association, in Washington, the topic was how to help students who have learned many of their information gathering and analysis skills from video games apply that knowledge in the library. Speakers said that gaming skills are in many ways representative of a broader cultural divide between today’s col
American Library Association's copyright resources page. This page contains an array of resources describing copyright law and practical compliance instructions.
This tutorial was created to help library users uncover the mysteries of call number reading.
H.R. 1120: Deleting Online Predators Act of 2007:
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require recipients of universal service support for schools and libraries to protect minors from commercial social networking websites and chat rooms.
Read about CIPA, Patriot Act, Copyright regulations and more...
The opposition of the American Library Association to H.R. 5319, the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA) apparently made little impression on those in the House of Representatives, as they voted 410-15 yesterday to endorse the bill. "This unnecessary and overly broad legislation will hinder students' ability to engage in distance learning and block library computer users from accessing a wide array of essential Internet applications including instant messaging, email, wikis and blogs," said ALA president Leslie Burger.
Most new items coming into the Duke libraries are now classified according to the Library of Congress ("LC" ) system. (We used to use Dewey Decimal, but are phasing it out.) LC assigns call numbers, which we use to shelve the books, by subjects. We use LC Subject Headings in our online catalog. Learning to use them can help you save time and find books you might not get using only keyword searches.
Collection of ready-to-use tools to conduct an advocacy campaign--large or small--for school library media programs.