Here's some randomness...apologies if you were the person who sent me one or more of these links. I've lost track of where I got them.
"The Mother's Milk of Literacy: How Breastfeeding May Improve Literacy"
- to which I say, "no duh!"
The Science of Early Brain Development
- you'll have to click on the first search result to see the PowerPoint presentation
Neat New Stuff on the Internet
- by librarian, Marylaine Block. "The sites I include are usually free sites of substantial reference value, authoritative, browsable, searchable, and packed with information, whether educational or aimed at answering everday questions."
"It Takes A Village of Librarians To Raise A Teen"
"Schools should continue to require library research so kids can learn how old folks used to Google stuff."
"The Times (UK) Makes 200 Years of Newspapers Available Online for Free"
"Reading The Future: Planning To Meet Canada's Future Literacy Challenges"
- a new study has lots of stats and info from the Canadian Council on Learning
"Dealing With Book Clutter"
- includes a list of questions that could be used with slight modification during weeding at your library
PaperbackSwap.com
- a site that the previous linked article led to which allows you to swap books (and CD's and DVD's) with others. It appears to only be for US-based people right now (or people with access to a US mailing address) but still worth taking note of in case they expand to Canada in the future.
"Who Says Librarians and Teachers Don't Like Tags?"
And for a big, non-library-related finish, "What skills would be most useful if you could time travel back to 1000 A.D."
(Man, it always feels good to get this accumulated kludge off the books!
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