AIE — Adventures In Education

Sep 27, 2007 - "Search by Topic or Headnote" from LexisNexis. "LexisNexis has announced the launch of an innovative search functionality on lexis.com called (Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Sep 25, 2007 - "5 Under 35" fiction selections for 2007. "Now in its second year, (Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Aug 13, 2007 - School Translators Can Help Parents Lost in the System. With 40 employees and a $4.5 million annual budget, the translation office for New York City's public schools claims to be the largest of its kind in the country. (The New York Times)

Aug 12, 2007 - Joanne Levy-Prewitt is an independent college admissions adviser who works with students throughout the Bay Area / COLLEGE BOUND / A weekly guide to higher education. Question: My daughter is a rising senior. She is bright, athletic and does volunteer work. She has A's in all her classes, very high SAT scores and will graduate high school with eight advanced-placement classes on her transcript. She will apply to small... (SF Gate)

Aug 11, 2007 - Students teach educators about schools. Teens research some of L.A.'s most troubled schools and report to the mayor's team. (Los Angeles Times)

Aug 8, 2007 - Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2007 Longlist. The judges for the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction have announced their longlist of books in the running for the prize this year. This longlist of 13 books, the 'Man Booker Dozen', was chosen from 110 entries; 92 were submitted for the prize and 18 were called in by the judges. The longlist is: (Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Jul 16, 2007 - Human Rights through the eyes of history: a new online exhibition. The National Archives has launched a new online exhibition tracing the evolution of our human, social and civil rights from Magna Carta to the establishment of the Welfare State. (Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Jul 14, 2007 - Dewey? At This Library With a Very Different Outlook, They Don't. An Arizona library has forsaken the Dewey Decimal System, and is arranging books in a manner similar to the approach taken by Barnes & Noble. (The New York Times)

Jun 25, 2007 - Chart-topping music titles to be available for download from libraries. Music lovers will soon be able to download and fill their MP3 players with chart-topping tunes, using their library cards. (Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Jun 11, 2007 - Biblio Tech Review - June 2007. The June 2007 issue of is now available (Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Apr 29, 2007 - U.S. Government Links. Get search results from the millions of pages on U.S. government websites (Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Apr 28, 2007 - A Day in the Life: Career Options in Library and Information Science. by Priscilla Shontz and Richard Murray - "Many people, not just those new to the field of Library and Information Science, are curious about their career options. The editors of LIScareer.com have assembled 95 authors, each of whom describes a "typical" workday or work routine, sharing joys, sorrows, and annoyances in refreshingly candid fashion..." (Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Apr 19, 2007 - 2007 National Book Festival. Organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by first lady Laura Bush, the 2007 National Book Festival will be held on Saturday, September 29, 2007, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., between 7th and 14th streets from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (rain or shine). (Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Mar 25, 2007 - How clean are your books? Surface dirt on library and archive materials is unsightly, unhealthy and provides nourishment for pests. It is often an indication of poor standards of collection care. The NPO has organised a training day to demonstrate how dirt damages collections and how it can be tackled using a variety of methods - National Preservation Office Training Day - 30 April 2007 - London, UK (Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Mar 6, 2007 - ACRL Podcasts. "Provide fresh perspectives on the issues and events in academic librarianship. (Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Mar 5, 2007 - Browse Inside from HarperCollins Publishers. " is a global online initiative of HarperCollins Publishers which offers consumers an in-depth, digital look at books that spark their interest. As plans to roll-out the program continue, consumers will be able to access the HarperCollins Browse Inside page views directly from authors' sites, HarperCollins newsletters, or booksellers' retail Web sites" (Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Feb 8, 2007 - Advanced placement tests are leaving some behind. African-American students, who made up 14 percent of the student population last year, were only 7 percent of the participants in Advanced Placement courses. (The New York Times)

Feb 7, 2007 - African American History Month. Sixty resources for learning about Frederick Douglass, the Harlem Renaissance, the 369th Infantry, Brown v. Board of Education, Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement, and more. (U.S. Department of Education)

Jan 29, 2007 - Why read Shakespeare when Clancy can get you a pizza party? Montgomery County parent Brad German likes just about anything that encourages kids to read. But he can't understand why a reading program used in his child's North Bethesda Middle School awards a student more points for reading a Nancy Drew mystery than William Shakespeare's "Macbeth." (Washington Post)

Jan 29, 2007 - Librarian leaves mark at Sunnyvale school. Valerie Torres hadn't been at Sunnyvale's Lakewood Elementary School a year when colleagues gave her their highest honor, voting her Teacher of the Year. (MercuryNews.com)

Jan 11, 2007 - New teaching resources: Citizenship, rockets, Rembrandt and more. Citizenship, civil rights, reading, Rembrandt, rockets, slavery, statistics, and westward expansion are among the topics of new resources at FREE, the website that makes teaching resources from federal agencies easier to find. (U.S. Department of Education)

Jan 11, 2007 - Libraries go where teens are: Online. Librarians discuss Web strategies, best books at national conference in Seattle January 19-24 (American Library Association)

Jan 8, 2007 - NYC schools turn to phonics to boost reading. With tens of thousands of middle-school students reading below grade level, New York City has turned to a popular phonics-based program to help those kids relearn the basics. Member station WNYC's Beth Fertig reports. (NPR)

Jan 4, 2007 - Best free reference websites 2006. This is an annual series initiated under the auspices of the Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of ALA to recognize outstanding reference sites on the World Wide Web. (American Library Association)

Jan 2, 2007 - Hello, Grisham — So long, Hemingway? You can't find "Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings" at the Pohick Regional Library anymore. Or "The Education of Henry Adams" at Sherwood Regional. Want Emily Dickinson's "Final Harvest"? Don't look to the Kingstowne branch. (Washington Post)

Jan 2, 2007 - Lock the library! Rowdy students are taking over. In New Jersey, one library has grown frustrated by middle schoolers' mix of pent-up energy, hormones and nascent independence. (The New York Times)