Showing posts with label Newbery Medal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newbery Medal. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Dinkytown Changes, A Library Burns, and Other Newsy News

Hershey Library turns 100.  Chocolate joke.  Possibly with dark...

Caroline Kennedy in Seattle told libraries they are special.  Our hearts grew 10 times.

Curious what happens when a book is overdue.  This Maine investigative report finds out.  Hint: Librarians won't be surprised.

Area librarian retires so the newspaper breaks out the "closing the book" line.

Dinkytown Library is planning some remodeling.  Let's all pretend I'm not sharing this because it's called "Dinkytown."

Islamist Rebels Burn Timbuktu Library.  Historic manuscripts are burned.  This hurts my heart.

San Francisco library gets into puppy shit business because of lack of training paper. I am so not kidding.

Newark school librarian to be retried in decade old sex scandal case.

The New York Public Library is set to archive menus back to 1840.  Com'on.  This is just a bunch of librarians cleaning out the drawer in the office with the take-out menus.

Some awards were put out there.  You know'em.

Library of Congress has power over cell phones.  Taking time archiving twitter, but can lock down your cell phone.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Newbery Announced, Video Games Could Care Less

Moon Over Manifest
Video Games not Pwn'd by your Newbery

When Clare Vanderpool's Moon Over Manifest was selected Monday as the 2011 Newbery Medal winner, video games gave less of a crap.  The billion dollar industry has not given a full statement as of yet, but did let slip that "[video games] did not care how many new berries those punk books have, [video games] have fire flowers, magic mushrooms, and medipaks for days, bitch pwn, lolz" during a 6 hour patch update of World of Warcraft.  Video games went on to describe how it would crouch over a dead book if the book were ever man enough to "get up itz ballz and log in."  When told that books were not able to log in and required no power, video games stared at this reporter as if he just crapped in his hand and put a birthday candle in it.  Video games then proceeded to log into Wikipedia to search for this "book" thing, possibly to slay it as one would a dragon with witch powers.

More news about new berries here