CheckItOut - Taylor Swift Parody Video for National Library Week

The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library's parody of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off." In homage to Taylor Swift and her outspoken support of public libraries and literacy and in celebration of National Library Week. April 2015.

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13 Amazingly Stunning Public Libraries From Around the World

It's National Library Week! Have you visited your local library recently? Is it as beautiful as these?

Rochester libraries celebrate National Library Week

2010 “GREAT AREA LIBRARIES” WINNERS ANNOUNCED: Celebrating National Library Week

The Rochester Regional Library Council (RRLC) has announced the winners of the 2010 RRLC Library of the Year Award, which is offered this year for the first time.
Please visit the RRLC homepage to find the list of our winners, www.rrlc.org and be sure to stop by each day this week to take a photo tour and watch a video of the day -- each day this week will feature one RRLC “Library of the Year”.

Celebrate National Library Week!

The NYLA Public Awareness Committee would like to remind everyone that National Library Week is April 11-17. ALA has prepared a toolkit with press releases, PSA messages, website buttons and activity suggestions. Please use this opportunity to share how "Communities Thrive @ your library."

Don't delay! Check out National Library Week suggestions on the ALA website and build awareness for all that your library has to offer.

100 Awesome YouTube Vids for Librarians

Librarians should no longer be thought of as fuddy duddy types with long dusty cardigans or pince-nez dangling around their necks. These days, public librarians and academic librarians are on the cutting edge, dedicated to bringing their resources and their patrons into the 21st century with technology. Librarians are also bloggers, IT professionals, database managers, technology mavens; and these YouTube videos and tutorials are just for them. Watch these vodcasts and recordings to learn about new library tools, interesting literacy campaigns and outreach programs, and even hysterical videos about library stereotypes that are circulating on the Internet.

Proud Husband

"If I may brag, Amy just won a first place award in COMMENT AND CRITICISM for 2007 from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors association. (This is for her movie reviews for the Houston Chronicle. You can find her stuff easily on Web, notably the site Rotten Tomatoes, which compiles reviews. She writes as Amy Biancolli.)

Christopher D. Ringwald"
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See Chris and Amy at the National Library week event, Thursday, April 19, at 7 pm at the main branch of the APL.