Before the written word, stories were passed down through the oral tradition of storytelling. For Liberian-American author Wayétu Moore, the stories of West Africa were her introduction to imaginative worlds and speculative fiction.
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Category: Libraries
Editorial: The Shark Tank marketing channel made in heaven
It goes unappreciated to many authors and publishers that libraries and librarians promote their product – reading and the books they produce – in thousands of high-traffic consumer locations in nearly every community.
A first-time novelist, Christina Dalcher is also a writer of flash fiction (short, short stories) and previously taught undergraduate and post-graduate courses in linguistics, phonetics and phonology as well as writing and rhetoric.
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Point of View: Nick Buron, Chief Librarian at the Queens Library
Steve Potash speaks with Queens Library Chief Librarian Nick Buron. Serving a diverse community of 2.3 million across 62 locations, the Queens Library has among the highest circulation rates in the country.
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A maturity or content-specific rating system hasn’t been developed on a national level and is needed to guide parents – and may be able to prevent censorship.
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No matter what academic activities children take part in at school and at the library, motivation to read comes from the way children perceive reading as a family value.
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There’s little denying that children and adults alike bond over video games, and some libraries are beginning to capitalize on this by incorporating them into their regular programming and materials.
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During every meeting at Virginia’s Galax Public Library, attendees connect with other writers of various ages and at different stages of their writer’s journey.
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In the last two years, audiobook usage through libraries has increased 46 percent, with an average of 220,000 audiobooks checked out daily so far in 2018.
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For half of our population, their literacy skills are so low they’re unable to read prescription drug labels, and 20 percent of Americans read below the level needed to earn a living wage.
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