Author Ken Auletta‘s New Yorker article Publish or Perish: Can the iPad Topple the Kindle, and Save the Book Business? looks at publishers’ hopes for the iPad and other potential platforms for electronic books.
In this interview Auletta talks about the impact e-books might have on retailers and publishers.
You may have noticed the construction noise on the original side of the library. Half of the first floor is undergoing a renovation and this week the construction noise is a lot louder than usual. The louder than usual construction work is unavoidable, but it should be over late next week.
There are still many quiet areas to study in the library. The further you move away from the front stairwell, the less you hear the noise.
April 24th is the 12th Annual National Day of Puppetry.
We have hand puppets to die for, available to check out from Odum, including many realistic-looking animal puppets from Folkmanis. Ask at the front Circulation Desk if you’d like to see the puppets.
This summer the Port City Puppet Festival, July 15th-18th in Wilmington, NC, will offer a Professional Day for the Teaching Artist & Therapist with presentations by puppeteers, educators and therapists.
Or, this summer you could visit Atlanta’s Center for Puppetry Arts. The Center has many historic puppets on exhibit, and presents unforgettable performances.
Donkey Hand Puppet from Folkmanis
Legendary Civil Rights leader Dr. Dorothy Height died Tuesday at 98.
Her memoir Open Wide the Freedom Gates can be checked out from Odum Library.
Read, hear and see video of Dr. Height at the University of Virginia Library Institute for Public History’s Explorations in Black Leadership.
You can also read about Height, see archival photos and listen to a retrospective here at NPR.
Read Alouds
Read Alouds
Hula Hoops
Celebrity Appearance by the Chick-fil-A Cow
Music
Face Painting
Coloring
Jump Rope
Slate.com and Magnum Photos post these wonderful photographs of libraries and people reading, from around the 1940’s to the present.
#13 is a photo of Marilyn Monroe hanging out at a playground, reading a book, in a bathing suit.
#20 is James Dean reciting James Whitcomb Riley‘s poetry.
Here’s a snapshot of the reading room in the old Valdosta State College Library, when the library was in Powell Hall:
Photo courtesy of VSU Archives
