Some beautiful truths about the first five years of life put together by our local library system ...
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In March 1970, Marguerite Hart became the first children’s librarian at the Troy Library...
In early 1971, Hart wrote to dozens of actors, authors, artists, musicians, playwrights, librarians, and politicians of the day. She asked them to write a letter to the children of Troy about the importance of libraries, and their memories of reading and of books.
Hart received 97 letters addressed to Troy’s young people from individuals who spanned the arts, sciences, and politics across the 50 states, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, the Mariana Islands, and American Samoa.
In collecting these letters, Marguerite Hart created a snapshot of the cultural and political landscape of the early 1970s. She accumulated a diverse anthology of letters that enriches the Troy Public Library’s remarkable history, and one that is a lasting tribute to the children of Troy – past, present, and future.
One thing is for certain: If Hermione Granger was real and living in New York City, she’d be at this library reading every single book in it (again). The Conjuring Arts Resource Center in midtown Manhattan holds 11,000 books about the history of magic “and its allied arts” (which includes psychic phenomena, hypnosis, and slight-of-hand techniques) and functions primarily as a research library. Don’t you love it when things like Hogwarts and Ray’s Occult Books join imaginary forces to form something real? => http://bit.ly/iR9obD
Welcome to the 2011 Read It Reading Challenge.
This a monthly reading group that encourages Australian library users to read and tweet about what they are reading.
Check the monthly themes at the blog to decide what you will read each month and how to tweet your reading experiences.
Run by the NSW Readers Advisory Working Group
Project Outcomes and Conclusions – Culture, museums, libraries and young people
This project in the North West of England aimed to give young people a voice on what culture means to them, and what Museums and Libraries should provide for young people. The project used youth work and youth participation techniques. The centre piece of the project was an event attended by 43 young people from a variety of areas across the North West and a small number of key adult decision makers. This event was entirely designed, planned and implemented by a Steering Group of young people working in partnership with youth workers.
=> http://bit.ly/bhlQH6
A 10-Year-Old’s Marching Orders for the Upcoming School Year
" ... kids function best when they're real clear about exactly what's expected of them ..."