Collection Reflection

Happy Thursday!  And now the news.... Keira Knightly to star in big screen adaptation of  The Other Typist   Tim Burton to direct big screen adaptation of M iss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children More news on the Outlander  series coming to cable . The top 10 embarrassing moments in children's books (as chronicled by Mark Lowery. Hilarious.) 10 great multicultural children's books Coming in 2016.....modern writers translating Shakespeare to prose . Arthur C. Clarke's DNA to join mission into deep space .  (awesome!) Why Big Publishing thinks genre fiction is the future of E-books.  A Brief history of the dystopian novel . Create custom cookbooks with Random House's TasteBook Tim O'Brien wins $100k Pritzker Military Library Literature Award The list of most pirated tv shows  June is wedding month, right?   Wedding Photos of 16 Famous Authors in Love. Just for fun: Difficult men: tortured souls who make terrifi...

It's Thursday! It's Thursday! (There is a dance that goes along with this.) "Sex should not be forbidden in books for young people" Philip Pullman (He's all over the news lately.) Bestselling author Vince Flynn dies of cancer . Fifty Shades of Grey  movie gets its director . A post from @rachel_nk: " Collection Development: Power to the People " Zola Books, social retailer and publisher, to launch in September . Alice Munro talks about her decision to retire from writing . " Why is modern poetry so bad? " Is it? Michael Sheen has signed to read the audio version of Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane . LeVar Burton talks favorite children's books . Did you know: that old book smell is a mix of grass and vanilla.  (Really?!) Barnes & Noble has a summer reading program! 50 Essential LGBT Films Just for Fun: New City of Bones  trailer . Infographic:  Superman history . (LOVE!) 10 "Sciencey...

Happy Tuesday! Really, this qualifies as news?  Stephen King's Joyland  pirated . Apple took away RH's app until they agreed to play by the iRules. (I had no idea each publisher had their own app? Does anyone  buy books from iBookstore?) Brad Ricca's Super Boys  tells the story of Superman's creators Infographic : Ray Bradbury's predictions fulfilled. First Book confronts lack of diversity in children's books . Just for fun: The Joy of Books  video .  (super cute) Jon Snow's 80s training montage. I thought nothing could be better than the title. Then I saw the video.

The Friday links are short and sweet! New CIA Deputy Director used to be a bookseller that, gasp, held "Erotica Nights" at the store .  (yay!) Why Judy Blume's "Forever" is.....for ever . James Joyce's last undiscovered collection to be published The Al Michaels autobiography is a GO!  (I immediately heard the MNF music....not the Sunday night football music...) 20 awesome street art inspired book covers

Good Morning, Collection Reflection-ers!  Finally, after many conferences and illnesses, I'm back!   Happy Thursday.  Let's have some links! Zadie Smith fights the good fight against the false choice of career vs. family . DBW explains the recent spike in bestseller ebooks prices . In the UK, self published books are 20% of the genre fic market . Werewolf erotica is NOT  pornography (according to a California appeals court) Read the decision here . The complete book list from NPR's backseat bookclub . Philip Pullman ventures to the dark side on ebook loans . (UK model vs. US model and PLR) Fascinating article about the library at Guantanamo Bay prison . The changing face of high school reading lists . Help save a Timbuktu library BBC America announces a 4 part documentary series on Science Fiction .  (just when I was contemplating getting rid of cable again....) E-readers don't cut down on reading comprehension  Expanding the audio...

Happy Monday! A look at collection development over in the UK : "The main weeding criteria for well-conditioned stock is usage. Any fiction or non-fiction book that has not been borrowed in a year is either transferred to a different library or deleted. We automatically delete children’s non-fiction over ten years old although non-fiction relating to subjects like geography, computing and science are often weeded earlier (similarly for adult non-fiction in these subject areas)." From The Atlantic , Every Library and Museum in the US, Mapped . Pretty damn cool. From NPR, Five Books to Look Forward to This Summer . Neil Gaiman remembers Iain Banks . From the LA Times ,  Beyond Game of Thrones : Exploring Diversity in Speculative Fiction . According to Bowker, self-published ebooks represent 12% of ebook sales . Winners from the Lambda Literary Awards. Why do we read novelizations ? Evidence mounting that Pablo Neruda was murdered  (in 1973). 30 of the mos...