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Book Catalogue The World's First Social eReading Software | ReadCloud Osprey Publishing Handbook for Information Literacy Teaching Welcome to the Handbook for Information Literacy Teaching (HILT). This Handbook was written by a group of subject librarians at Cardiff University to support their colleagues in Information Services as they developed their information literacy teaching. Since the appearance of the first edition in 2005, we have received many expressions of interest from outside the University. Please would you let us know how you decide to use the resource. Nigel Morgan Chair of the HILT Group Digital Publication - 2009 (including 2011 updates) Word Version - 2009 (including 2011 updates) PDF Version - 2009 (including 2011 updates) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence.

Wake County Annual Booksale The Booksale & Festival of Reading is scheduled forDecember 11-15, 2014. The annual Booksale and Festival of Reading is held each year at the NC State Fairgrounds, Jim Graham Building. Information on prices, daily schedule and entertainment for children will be made available in the near future. Our 2013 event was one of our most successful sales to date drawing over 13,500 visitors over four days and offering over 400,000 books at discount prices. May 9-12, 2013 Highlights Revenue: $130,000 from the actual event and $30,000 collected from vendors throughout the year Most popular sales: science fiction, textbooks, children’s materials, cookbooks, crafts/ hobbies, audio books, large print and African-American Inventory: 405,000 books Volunteers: over 300 volunteers For more information, contact askwcpl@wakegov.com.

Author Uses Blog Comments to Peer Review Book Anyone who has scanned the comments at Perez Hilton would understandably be puzzled by the idea of relying on blog readers to peer review a book. The idea seems especially ludicrous if the book is being published by the MIT Press. But as we're well aware here at ReadWriteWeb, some blogs do have very intelligent readers (*wink, wink, nudge, nudge*). Author Noah Wardrip-Fruin, an assistant professor of communication at the University of California at San Diego, thinks so too, which is why he is calling on his blog's readers to peer review his new book. The book in question is the forthcoming Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies, which examines the study of video games, and the blog in question is Grand Text Auto, an academic blog founded in 2003 that deals with "digital narrative, poetry, games and art." "Blogging has already changed how I work as a scholar and creator of digital media.

Pages Past BOOK GLUTTON 11 of the Coolest Bookstores in the US You don’t have to be a bookworm to appreciate what this assortment of bookstores has to offer! They have anything from interesting architecture to niche reading materials to a unique attraction. You’ll want to start buying all your book-related goods from these shops—or at least plan a road trip to check them out. Here they are, in no particular order: The Coolest Bookstores in the US. 1. McNally Jackson Books McNally Jackson Books in New York City seems to have every book and magazine in print! 2. The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles started in owner Josh Spencer’s loft, but it was basically just an online store. 3. The Montague Bookmill in Montague, Massachusetts will pique your interest with its catchphrase alone: “Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.” 4. Quimby’s Bookstore isn’t your typical shop—you won’t find the latest on the bestseller list here! 5. Square Books calls Oxford, MS home. 6. 7. Bart’s Books in Ojai, California is—get this—an outdoor bookstore! 8. 9. 10. 11.

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