Presenters: Yadira V. Payne, Hallie Pritchett, Maureen Morgan, Lori Lester

Date: 8 October, 2009

Description: In the era of ever tightening budgets acquiring new resources is a dirty word, however, not if you are a federal depository. Come learn about some resources that are freely available through your federal depository. If you are already a depository, get new and creative ideas on promoting your collection.

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I will be liveblogging and video streaming "On the Horizon: Collaboration, Communication, the Cloud and
the Media Specialist" on Thursday at 9:30. Join in the backchannel at http://theunquietlibrarian.wikispaces.com/Georgia+COMO+2009+Backchannel .

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I have added some new posts tonight to my library blog, http://theunquietlibrary.wordpress.com, to promote some wonderful YA Lit 2.0 resources available to teen readers! Book publishers, authors, and organizations dedicated to promoting YA lit now have blogs, Twitter accounts, My Space pages, Facebook pages, and You Tube channels that provide interviews, book updates, podcasts, and videos to help teens communicate one on one with their favorite authors. Please take a peek at some of my favorite… Continue

Warning: this is a fluff post!

Reading and books have been a passion for most of my life. I buy them! I read them! I horde them! I check them out! I remember being so proud of my first library card.... five years old and clutching that little blue card with the metal plate as I selected books with my dad each Saturday. Heh. That was a long time ago. Books have stayed with me (Literally! Last time I moved I had half a UHaul full.)

I was thrilled to work as the Special Orders clerk for Borders f… Continue