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Teen Read Week

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How is your library engaging teen readers?

For the past 15 years, Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) has sponsored Teen Read Week (TRW). It is a national adolescent literary initiative to sponsor continued readership. This year TRW will be held on October 13th-19th. The theme strives to encourage teens to discover the unknown and continue to explores mysteries, “Seek the Unknown @ Your Library.”

Click here for additional information about Teen Read Week from ALA. 
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Struggling With Multitasking?

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Regardless of what type of library you work in, fall can be an extremely busy time of the year both professionally and personally. Also, as work environments become more collaborative, it introduces the possibility of additional interruptions. Ultimately, this has implications faculty/staff’s ability to focus on a singular task from start to finish.

If you are one of those can-do multitaskers, consider reading the following posts by Edudemic.

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Virtual Town Hall on Ebooks

Are you interested in the possibility of eBook lending?

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On October 23rd, American Library Association (ALA) President Barbara Stripling will be hosting an interactive, online session from 11:00-12:00 pm (CT) to enter an eBook library lending discussion.

Panelists include:

  • Barbara Stripling, ALA president;
  • Maureen Sullivan, ALA immediate past president;
  • Keith Michael Fiels, ALA executive director;
  • Sari Feldman, executive director of the Cuyahoga County Public Library and DCWG co-chair;
  • Robert Wolven, associate university librarian of Columbia University and DCWG co-chair;
  • Alan S. Inouye, director of ALA’s Office for Information Technology Policy.

To learn more about this discussion and for registration materials click here.

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Sinclair Lewis Writer’s Conference

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On Saturday, October 12th the Sinclair Lewis Foundation of Sauk Centre will be hosting the 2013 Writer’s Conference. This full day conference will feature keynote speaker Jim Klobuchar; poet Joyce Sutphen; story teller Anthony Bukoski; along with author and literary agent Kim Connor.

Registration costs will cover attendance at the keynote address, a catered lunch and the reception held at the historic Palmer House in Sauk Centre, MN.

Register online before October 9th.

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Minnesota Remembers…

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This post is for our readers born and raised in the land of 10,000 (+) lakes and others that have merely migrated here from somewhere warmer. This week we look back at highlights from Minnesota’s eclectic and somewhat eccentric past.

Click here, just for fun, to see a list of the top 21 Things Minnesotans Are Too Nice To Brag About compiled by Buzzfeed.