They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children by Evergreen Award nominated author Roméo Dallaire: Video interview



Interview

Not all of the books in the Evergreen program are novels; some of them are non-fiction, tackling real-life situations.  If you're interested in reading and discussing this book, join the HDSB Evergreen book discussion!  Contact Paul Van Ravenstein vanravenstp@hdsb.ca

Bedtime Story by Evergreen Award nominated author Robert J. Wiersema: Video interview

Interview

If you're interested in reading and discussing this book, join the HDSB Evergreen book discussion!  Contact Paul Van Ravenstein vanravenstp@hdsb.ca

The Accident by Evergreen Award nominated author Linwood Barclay: Book Trailer and Video Interviews

The Accident trailer

Interview with Linwood Barclay about his book, The Accident

Linwood Barclay answers the public's questions about The Accident

If you're interested in reading and discussing this book, join the HDSB Evergreen book discussion!  Contact Paul Van Ravenstein vanravenstp@hdsb.ca

The Lorax is Missing!

The 300-pound bronze statue of the Lorax, a character from the Dr. Seuss book and hit movie of the same name, has been stolen from the late author’s San Diego estate.

Library Workers and Authors Join Forces at a Toronto Read-In

A crowd of more than 100 people including library workers, supportive members of the public and, most notably, a sizable contingent from the Writers’ Union of Canada, showed up to voice their support for their fellow word lovers during the ongoing labour disruption.

How Do You Know What You're Missing?

Students using the computers at Camdenton High School central Missouri have been able to access the Web sites for Exodus International, as well as People Can Change, antigay organizations that counsel men and women on how to become heterosexual. But the students have not been able to access the Web sites of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or the Gay-Straight Alliance Network.

The American Library Association notes, “These filters are a new version of book-banning or pulling books off the shelf,” said Pat Scales of the American Library Association. “The difference is, this is much more subtle and harder to identify.” 

More ideas for Creative Recycling

Feeling guilty about weeding your library? What else can you do with old, outdated items beside filling the dumpster? Check out these innovative ideas!


Turn those heavy, ancient encyclopedias into fun furniture for your library!
This example is from Audiobooker

What about all those old cassette tapes? How about some art?

Ghost in the Machine has this solution.

Feeling green fingered? Why not have a go at some creative ways to use books

With Earth Day and Earth Week approaching, this project makes use of both recycling and your green thumb! Check out the how-to video! Book Lovers, how do you feel about these books being cut out and ripped apart to make a new item?




Here are some other ideas for making use of those old dusty books and showing your love for books:

eBook Covers



Clocks

Hidden Book Safes

Unique Lamps



Handbags

Docking stations

Flash Mob Anyone?

Join the mob and share a book that inspired you!

Hamilton and Toronto both have Pay It Forward events on March 28, 2012!

Any Bookplate Collectors Out There?

The beautiful bookplate collection of Arthur W. Dorling, one of the foremost collectors of bookplate art, will be auctioned at Bonham's on March 27, 2012.

The Books of Nudes

Oh Dr. Seuss, my delicate sensibilities!

Among his many creative feats is a fairly unknown, but scandalous one: In 1939, when Geisel left Vanguard for Random House, he had one condition for his new publisher, Bennett Cerf — that he would let Geisel do an 'adult' book first.  The result was The Seven Lady Godivas: The True Facts Concerning History’s Barest Family, which tells the story of nudist sisters who, after their father’s death, pledge not to wed until each of them has “brought to the light of the world some new and worthy Horse Truth, of benefit to man.”

Priracy vs. Learning

Last week a website called "library.nu" disappeared.  

It virtually housed between 400,000 and a million digital scholarly books for free: textbooks, secondary treatises, obscure monographs, biographical analyses, technical manuals, collections of cutting-edge research in engineering, mathematics, biology, social science and humanities...and it's users were students and scholars...not really your average criminal.

Did anyone really win this battle?

Fantastic Flying Books

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, a 15-minute film about a man who cares for a library of lively books, won the Academy Award for animated short film on Sunday night.