Archive for June 3, 2007

2007 Quill Award Nominees

June 3, 2007 in Books and reading

At BookExpo America, they announced this year’s Quill nominees. It’s the third year for these consumer-driven awards. The last two lists helped me plan my summer reading and helped me to discover new authors and titles to include on our high school shelves. Scroll down to the bottom of the list for youth titles.

End-year reflections

June 3, 2007 in 2.0, About learning, About libraries

We have two weeks left. As I complete the annual report, I find myself reflecting and worrying a bit too. It’s been an amazing year. We survived a community tragedy. We focused heavily on safety and recovery. But we moved ahead too. This year we piloted many Web 2.0 applications with a core group of [...]