RRCLibrary: Link of the Day Archives

The Digital Revolution in Children's Publishing

30-Jul-10 - Publishers of all stripes are struggling with that definition, including children's publishers. Picture books have used artwork as a core part of their storytelling as long as the art form as existed, yet they have always evolved, too. "The printed book hasn't stayed static—look how popular graphic novels are with kids."

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News sites reining in nasty user comments

29-Jul-10 - Online comments on news stories can be difficult to police. For years, many publications have tried to strike a balance between encouraging open communication among readers and maintaining civil discourse. But a few sites, fed up with rude or inflammatory comments, are taking bold new steps to raise the level of dialogue.

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Boys trail girls in reading; can fart jokes help?

28-Jul-10 - Can fart jokes save the reading souls of boys? You better hope so. Boys have lagged behind girls in reading achievement for more than 20 years, but the gender gap now exists in nearly every state and has widened to mammoth proportions — as much as 10 percentage points in some, according to the Center on Education Policy.

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E-Books Top Hardcovers at Amazon

27-Jul-10 - Amazon.com, one of the nation’s largest booksellers, announced Monday that for the last three months, sales of books for its e-reader, the Kindle, outnumbered sales of hardcover books. In that time, Amazon said, it sold 143 Kindle books for every 100 hardcover books, including hardcovers for which there is no Kindle edition.

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The good-bad books of summer

26-Jul-10 - (Gone With the Wind) was what George Orwell would have called a good-bad book – despised by literary critics, but beloved of the masses, who bought it by the millions. It was bloated, overwritten and had a rather sunny take on life in the Old South. But it was a great story, with a terrific heroine and a sweeping backdrop that taught me more than any work of history would have done about the U.S. South and the Civil War.

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Should your child be learning the art of slow reading?

23-Jul-10 - Like the slow-eating movement, the slow-reading movement is focused on enhancing the elements of pleasure and discovery. Among other techniques, Newkirk favors a return to practices like reading aloud and memorization to help students "taste" – rather than fly by – the words that they read.

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Computers at Home: Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality

22-Jul-10 - Middle School students are champion time-wasters. And the personal computer may be the ultimate time-wasting appliance. Put the two together at home, without hovering supervision, and logic suggests that you won’t witness a miraculous educational transformation. Still, wherever there is a low-income household unboxing the family’s very first personal computer, there is an automatic inclination to think of the machine in its most idealized form, as the Great Equalizer.

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On Facebook, Telling Teachers How Much They Meant

21-Jul-10 - Darci Hemleb Thompson had been on the lookout for Alice D’Addario for many years. From her home in Hampton, Va., Ms. Thompson, 49, who is married and has a 12-year-old daughter, was determined to find Ms. D’Addario on the Internet. She tried every search engine and networking site she could find. About 18 months ago she hit the jackpot.

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JFK Library archives will go digital

20-Jul-10 - The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is the first among American presidential libraries not 'born digital' to undertake the creation of a digital library. The digital archives will launch on January 20, 2011, the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s inauguration as the 35th President of the United States.

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Turning the Page on the Page Turn

19-Jul-10 - After a number of design experiments and mock-up concepts I found that the page turn served one purpose: to remind readers of the printed page while they use a digital screen. But it wasn’t necessarily the most efficient way to read long-form text. After a while, the digital page flip can seem annoying and inefficient.

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