St. Kate's ALA Student Chapter

Monday, September 26, 2011

Pre-Holidays Children's Book Drive: Your Suggestions Needed!

The St. Kate's ALA Student Chapter, Progressive Librarians Guild student group, and Special Libraries Association student group are joining forces to collect children's books during the first two weeks of December, and we need your input! We know we would like to focus on children's books for an underserved group (kids in poverty, in foster care, from immigrant families, those who have been adopted, anything else you can think of) but need to pick a group or groups to donate to ASAP in order to define our audience. That's where you come in! If you know of a deserving group with a structure in place to receive book donations, please email your suggestion to ala-students@stkate.edu. Suggestions from any and all students, staff, and faculty members are welcome. Thank you!

Friday, September 23, 2011

Weekly News Roundup

Internet Ruffles Pricey Scholarly Journals
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/world/europe/19iht-educLede19.html

Peace Corps volunteer from Dedham building a library in Togo
http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/dedham/2011/09/peace_corp_volunteer_from_dedh.html

Here are a few articles about borrowing Kindle books through the library:

Kindle Books Now Available at over 11,000 Local Libraries
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1608874&highlight=

Amazon Lifts Edge of Curtain on Kindle Library Lending; Beta Testing Under Way
http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/892109-264/amazon_lifts_edge_of_curtain.html.csp

OverDrive and Amazon launch Kindle® compatibility with Library eBooks
http://www.overdrive.com/News/OverDrive-and-Amazon-launch-Kindle-compatibility-with-Library-eBooks

And in further e-Book news:
One in 6 Americans Own an eReader
http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooknewser/one-in-6-americans-own-ereader_b15839

As always, please email me at naeierman@stkate.edu with any stories you would like included in next week's roundup!

Friday, September 16, 2011

The Snacktacular Snackluck is almost upon us!

New and returning members, please join us for our first official meeting of the semester:

Snacktackular Snackluck Snackstravaganza!
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
5:00-5:45pm
CDC 361

Papre plates, etc., will be provided, so bring a snack to share if you can, or just bring yourself. We will do some introductions and then get down to business.