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Rachel McAdams Poster
Item Number: 5010-0954

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Publisher: ALA Graphics
Price: $16.00

The Time Traveler’s Wife

Currently co-starring with Eric Bana as Clare Abshire in The Time Traveler’s Wife, based on the nationally bestselling book, Rachel McAdams is best known for her roles in Mean Girls, The Notebook, and Wedding Crashers. A native of St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, Ms. McAdams received a B.F.A. with honors in theater from York University in Toronto. Look for her this December, alongside Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, in Sherlock Holmes. Special thanks to Warner Bros. Pictures.

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Teacher Gives Soldiers Place to Rest Their Heads | NBC San Diego

Teacher Gives Soldiers Place to Rest Their Heads | NBC San Diego.

The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor | Ernest Hemingway Birthday

The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor | Ernest Hemingway Birthday.

July 21, 2009
The Writer's Almanac: Ernest Hemingway

It's the birthday of Ernest Hemingway, (books by this author) born in Oak Park, Illinois (1899), the Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such books as The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952).

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Reprint agreement will make U-M rare books widely available

Reprint agreement will make U-M rare books widely available.

July 21, 2009
Reprint agreement will make U-M rare books widely available

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The University of Michigan will make thousands of books that are no longer in copyright—including rare and one-of-a-kind titles—available as reprints on demand under a new agreement with BookSurge, part of the Amazon.com group of companies.

The agreement gives the public a unique opportunity to buy reprints of a wide range of titles in the U-M Library for as little as a few dollars. As individual copies are sold on Amazon.com, BookSurge will print and bind the books in soft-cover form.

ACRL | Talkin’ ‘bout my generation: Exploring age-related resources

ACRL | Talkin’ ‘bout my generation: Exploring age-related resources.

INTERNET RESOURCES
Talkin’ ‘bout my generation: Exploring age-related resources
C&RL News, July/August 2009, Vol. 70, No. 7
by Sidney Lowe and Susie Skarl

In the past few years, as technology has radically changed how we find and use information resources, library staff have begun to notice significant generational differences in the information-seeking behavior of library patrons. These frequent observations at the reference desk and in library instruction classes planted the first small seeds of our interest in this topic. Internet sites and online articles about generational differences are plentiful and focus on a wide range of subjects, such as learning styles, social behaviors, moral values, technological skills, marketing, communication, and workplace performance.

Generational categories are based on the time period in which a person was born, and there are variations in how they are labeled. For example, people who were born prior to World War II have been referred to as the “Silent Generation,” “Veterans,” “Radio Babies,” or “Traditionalists.” Some sources cite five separate generations, but most refer to only four. Depending upon which resource one is perusing, the generations are roughly represented as:
1) Traditionalists (born 1927–45),
2) Baby Boomers (1946–64),
3) Generation X, or Gen Xers (1965–80),
and 4) Generation Y, or Millennials (1981–2000).

Ernest Hemingway (American writer) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

Ernest Hemingway (American writer) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia.

Ernest Hemingway
American writer
in full Ernest Miller Hemingway

born July 21, 1899, Cicero [now in Oak Park], Illinois, U.S.
died July 2, 1961, Ketchum, Idaho

Ernest Hemingway reading from a work in progress, later posthumously published as Islands in the … [Credits : Material taken from Ernest Hemingway Reads. Used by arrangement with Caedmon Audio, an imprint of HarperAudio, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. Reproduced by courtesy of the literary estate of Ernest Hemingway]

American novelist and short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous and widely publicized life. His succinct and lucid prose style exerted a powerful influence on American and British fiction in the 20th century.

My Info Quest, Text Reference Service, Launches

My Info Quest, Text Reference Service, Launches.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Kitty Pope
Alliance Library System 309-694-9200 ext. 2101
Email: kpope@alliancelibrarysystem.com
DATE: July 20, 2009

My Info Quest TXT 4 ANSWERS: International Collaborative Text Reference Service Launches today
East Peoria, July 16, 2009

It's official! People are now sending more text messages than they are making cell phone calls. Librarians are aware of the popularity of texting and are ready to take their professional services to cell phones. Starting today, patrons of approximately 50 libraries from all over the US will be able to text a question to (309) 222-7740 and a real, live librarian will respond within minutes. The service is free of charge, but standard text messaging rates do apply.
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For more information about My Info Quest and for a list of participating libraries, check out http://www.myinfoquest.info/

Neil Gaiman's Journal: How to Play with Your Food

Neil Gaiman's Journal: How to Play with Your Food.

How to play with your food
Saturday, July 11, 2009, Posted by Neil at 1:30 AM

I'm in Chicago right now, for ALA: the annual meeting of the American Library Association. I've been to a couple of them before and have always had a marvellous time -- once, with people like Art Spiegelman and Scott McCloud and Colleen Doran explaining to curious librarians what graphic novels were and why they should have them in their libraries, another time getting to visit New Orleans for the first time Post-Katrina, when I went to two dinners with Poppy Z Brite, and one of them was the first time Poppy's husband, chef Chris DeBarr, ever cooked for me*.

When I was in Melbourne, five years ago, Poppy was a guest of honour with me, and somewhere back then it was decided that we would be going to Alinea, a Chicago restaurant of remarkable coolness. The years went by and I was never in Chicago for long, and Katrina happened, and once Poppy went back to New Orleans she did not want to leave, but we knew one day it would happen.

And tonight it did. Poppy flew up from Chicago and took me to dinner. It was expensive, and, I only discovered at the end of the meal, Poppy was paying. (This is a big public thank you.)

NPR: As A Matter Of Fact: Fourth Annual World eBook Fair

NPR: As A Matter Of Fact: Fourth Annual World eBook Fair

eBook Fair | Fourth Annual World eBook Fair
By Barbara Van Woerkom, Jul 9, 2009

The Fourth Annual World eBook Fair is giving free access to over 2,250,000 books until August 4, 2009. Project Gutenberg, the World Public Library, Internet Archive and others have joined together to bring a variety of publications on one searchable page. Heading on vacation and don't have time to buy a book? Take a few minutes and download The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle by Beatrix Potter for the kids, some Jane Austen, or the treatise On Corporate Social Responsibility by the World Bank.

3:55 PM ET | 07-09-2009 | permalink

Newspaper Nostalgia « Collections 2.0

Newspaper Nostalgia « Collections 2.0.

Newspaper Nostalgia
Posted by: Steven Harris | June 26, 2009

When I was a kid we had a Sunday morning family ritual. After breakfast we would all take coffee or tea and adjourn to our favorite spot, 2 adults and 4 kids lounging around the livingroom and kitchen with sections of our Sunday newspaper and a hot beverage. (Yes, we drank coffee and tea from a young age.

I’m sure it stunted my growth. I’m only 6 feet tall.) My brother was usually on his belly on the livingroom floor. I was lounged on the couch with my legs draped over the arm. Mom and dad in chairs. Sisters here and there. Sometimes the dogs would have a lick or two of coffee from a cup sitting on the floor. It was a good time. And we learned about the world, as reflected in our local paper, which wasn’t all that good, mind you.

Museyon Guides Match Travel with Film, Music and Art - 7/9/2009 1:49:00 PM - Publishers Weekly

Museyon Guides Match Travel with Film, Music and Art.

Museyon Guides Match Travel with Film, Music and Art
New travel series emulates Japanese guidebooks
By Lynn Andriani -- Publishers Weekly, 7/9/2009 1:49:00 PM

Museyon Guides, a new series of travel books, frame tourist traps and hidden neighborhoods alike through the lens of movies, art and music. West Berlin’s Zoologischer Garten train station is the setting for a scene in The Bourne Supremacy; a sequence in Traffic captures Mexico City’s Zócalo. The travel publishing field may be jam-packed with expert guides, but Museyon is attempting to differentiate itself by emulating Japanese guidebooks, which editor-in-chief Anne Ishii says are “more delicate, more tactile and cover more range” than American guidebooks. The books, $15.95 paperbacks, feature full-color photography throughout, and are written by local experts who also have extensive artistic knowledge.

Online catalogue of books is the library that never closes | Technology | The Guardian

Online catalogue of books is the library that never closes | Technology | The Guardian.

The library that never closes
The Open Library hopes to unite the net and the printed word by creating a web page for every book.

by Bobbie Johnson, guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 1 July 2009 18.15 BST, Article history

The internet's relationship with books, it is fair to say, has been a tumultuous one. Ever since the digital revolution started changing our relationship with information, the printed word – one of the most successful technologies in history – has been on the back foot.

Amazon has altered the face of the industry twice – first in the 1990s by changing the way books are sold and then, more recently, the way they are consumed, with its Kindle electronic book reader. Google has caused its own earthquake in the print world with its Book Search scheme – a plan to suck the text of millions of books into its search engine that has raised the hackles of publishers and authors alike.

Talk to workers at either of these technology companies and there is a feeling of technological inevitability: that the printed book is a stepping stone in the evolution of information, and now lies ready to be devoured by its hi-tech successors. Not everybody thinks that way, however, including the Open Library – a project with an audacious goal that it hopes can bring the web and books closer together.