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Pelosi's Library Quarantine

The CPSC is left cleaning up the House Speaker’s messy child-safety law. Now, confusion over how the rules affect children’s books has led some libraries to rope off kids’ sections.

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VLA Region V Committee Youtube Channel Updated

Surf over to VLA Region V Committee’s Youtube Channel to see updates from the past year.

Brownbag on Music Librarianship with Steven Gerber, George Mason University Libraries. Brownbag on Gaming in Libraries with Chuck Gray, Central Rappahannock Library. Welcome to VLA presentation from the 2008 VLA Annual Conference. VLA Region V developed this session in [...]

VLA Mailing Lists Have Moved to Google Groups

VLA Exective Committee endorsed the proposal to migrate VLA’s lists to Google Groups since it offers all the benefits of our previous lists, at no cost to VLA.

The old VLA listserv was deactivated today, Feb. 22, 2009.

If you don’t have a Google account you will need to create one before joining the new [...]

Gaming in Libraries: VLA Region V Brownbag

Join Chuck Gray of Central Rappahannock Regional Library for a talk about gaming culture and how it can be incorporated into library programs. More than simply playing video games, how do lilbrary staff use gaming and its narratives, characters, ideas, and concepts to inspire creativity in children and teens. A single story line from a [...]

2008 Jefferson Cup Award Winners

The Youth Services Forum is proud to announce the 2008 Jefferson Cup Award Winners are now posted on the VLA site. Congratulations to author Carole Boston Weatherford, and Wordsong Publishing for Birmingham, 1963.

Carole Boston Weatherford

I mine the past for family stories,

fading traditions and forgotten struggles.

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VLA Region V Brownbag on Web 2.0

VLA Region V Committee is proud to host a brown bag presentation: Applications and Implications of Web 2.0 Tool Integration for Higher Education and Public Libraries

When: Wednesday, October 1, 12 noon- 1 PM

Where: George Mason University Fairfax Campus, Johnson Center Library, 2nd Floor (but you must enter through the first floor). Directions and [...]

VLA Region V on YouTube

Whether you’ve been able to come to VLA Region V Programs or not, you can now see what’s been going on by using YouTube! Check out the VLA Region V Committee channel on YouTube for video highlights from our programs and brown bags.

So far we’ve got our Spring Program Talking (About) Books: Off the [...]

Encyclopaedia Britannica To Follow Modified Wikipedia Model

In a bid to wed the comprehensive, grassroots information factory of Wikipedia with the authority of the traditional encyclopedia, Encyclopaedia Britannica is opening the floodgates for online user submissions into its 240-year-old publication — a move it long resisted and sniffed was akin to intellectual pollution.

What Britannica wants to do, on the other hand, [...]

ALSC announces exceptional Web sites for children

(Chicago) The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), is pleased to announce the Web sites added this spring to Great Web Sites for Kids (www.ala.org/greatsites), its online resource containing hundreds of links to commendable Web sites for children.

Great Web Sites for Kids [...]

Find an ALA-accredited LIS program near you

The Office for Accreditation has created a Google map that shows the locations of all ALA-accredited LIS schools. The map includes main campus locations as well as other locations where the entire degree can be completed, and it offers links to each school’s entry in the office’s directory of accredited programs.