- Use the Six Word Memoir magic in your classes!
- Want to be able to access Wikipedia even if you have no wifi? Download the Kiwix app and never be without the whole of human knowledge!
- Time to subscribe to Daily Jstor if you don’t already!
- What will enter the Public Domain in 2023?
- Search in a whole new way!
- What books did some of your favorite writers and thinkers read & love last year?
- Visit (or revisit) a living library of trees in NYC?
- Want to know what advice Ray Bradbury gave for being more creative?
- David Byrne’s “The Year in Cheer” is full of good (and often surprising) news from around the world.
Here are 9 things I thought were worth sharing:
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Here are 10 things I thought were worth sharing:
Top 10 Books of 2022 (Book Page) Best Books of 2022 (Goodreads) Best Books of 2022 (School Library Journal) The Best Books of 2022 (So Far)—According to Real Simple Editors The Best Books of 2022 So Far (The New Yorker) 100 Notable Books of 2022 (New York Times) Books We Love (NPR) Best Books of 2022 (NYPL) The Best Books of 2022 So Far (Vogue) The Best Books of 2022 (So Far) (Esquire) Best Fiction Books of the Year (Kirkus) The Best Books of 2022 So Far (Book Riot) The 10 Best Books of 2022 (The New York Times) The 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 (Time) Here are 18 things I thought were worth sharing: 1. Click here to get your Brooklyn Public Library card, and click here to get your New York Public Library card, and you NEVER need a card to check out one of our books in our school library!
2. If you like logging in all the books that you read (and seeing which books your friends reading), consider creating a free account on Goodreads! A great way to up your Goodreads numbers is to read lots of amazing shorter books (and here, also)… 3. Also, check out Shepherd (currently in Beta) for another angle on how to choose your next book! Want some new book recommendations by thought leaders? Then check out Book Authority! 4. Whenever you have a chance to read a printed book over a digital book, do it! 5. The Brooklyn Book Festival (September 25 - October 3, 2022) is back in-person as well as with online offerings! 6. The beginning of the school year is the perfect time to find creative ways to get to know your students! Rob Walker, author of The Art of Noticing, freely shares his “Icebreaker of the Week” database that you can contribute to if you have a great one to share! 7. For all you Digital Natives out there, don’t forget the internet didn’t always exist! Want to check out the first time things were searched for ever? Check out Oldest Search. 8. Information is beautiful, or it can be when showcased in the right way! 9. The Brooklyn Public Library is celebrating their 125th birthday, and they’ve curated a list of 125 essential Brooklyn books. How many have you read? 10. Want to see what people want to know about? 11. Check out this new way to record yourself over a presentation! 12. The National Gallery of Art wants to see if you know your art! 13. Want to capture your tweet & make it look sweet? Try this! 14. Tiny Wow can solve a TON of your online issues! Try it and see! 15. See some of the world’s most interesting places right from your screen & dream about your future travel plans to see them in person! 16. You can now borrow vinyl records from the Brooklyn Public Library! 17. Synesthesia, anyone? Hear your paintings with this addictive software from the folks at Google Arts & Culture! 18. Can’t make it to the National Book Festival in DC this year? You can still watch fascinating conversations featuring the many authors featured at the festival! Click on the name of the program & watch the videos on YouTube! Here are 4 things I thought were worth sharing: 1. Here is a treasure trove of Summer Reading Lists that should keep you busy:
Publishers Weekly Summer Reads 2022 The Best Books of 2022 (So Far)—According to Real Simple Editors The 14 best books of the year so far 2022 Summer Reading 2022 (Barnes & Noble) Summer Reading 2022 (Brooklyn Public Library) The Best Books of 2022 (So Far) (Esquire Magazine) 200+ New Books That Are Must Reads in 2022 (PopSugar) The Best Books of 2022 So Far (Vogue) 28 of the Best New Books to Welcome Spring (Oprah Daily) What Should I Read This Summer? (NYTimes) Summer Reading Guide (The Atlantic) The 10 Most-Banned Books in America WHAT’S THE BUZZ: 40 OF THE BEST SUMMER READS FOR 2022 (Book Riot) The 40 Best New Books of 2022 (So Far) That You Won't Be Able to Put Down (Good Housekeeping) New York Public Library Summer Reading 2022 Traveling this summer? Here are book picks for all 50 states (and then some) (NPR) UC Berkeley Summer Reading List 2022 for incoming students 88 Books to Bring Your Summer Alive (NYTimes) The Best Books of 2022 So Far (Barnes & Noble) 2. How well do you know where you live? Test yourself and find out! 3. Learn from Google’s top Search Expert! 4. Want to fall in love with our planet again and also know what time it is? Try this! 5. Do you know a student who wants to be published in the New York Times? Show them this! Here are 8 things I thought were worth sharing:
Here are 10 things I thought were worth sharing:
Here is 1 thing I thought was worth sharing: 1. READ MORE BOOKS!! They are rectangular tickets to internal VR experiences and one of the most effective ways to boost your empathy quotient! Here are some end of year Best Books Lists that I collected for you. Happy Shopping, Happy Reading & Happy 2022 to you all!
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 (Time) NPR’s Book Concierge 2021 100 Notable Books of 2021 (New York Times) Best Books 2021 (Publishers Weekly) Best Books of 2021 (New York Public Library) Best Books of the Year (So Far) (Amazon) Best Books 2021 (School Library Journal) Best Books of 2021 So Far (Book Riot) The Best Books of the Year 2021 (Barnes & Noble) Best of 2021 (Kirkus Reviews) The 10 Best Books of 2021 (Washington Post) Smithsonian Scholars pick their favorite books of 2021 Best Books 2021 (Library Journal) Our 20 Favorite Books of 2021 (Oprah Daily) The 50 Best Books of 2021 (Esquire) Best Books of the Year (The Guardian) The 2021 Book Releases to Order Now and Thank Yourself Later (Marie Claire) The Best YA Books of 2021 (Read Brightly) The Best Books to Read in 2021 (Vogue) 200 Books that Shaped 200 Years of Literature (Center for Fiction) Here are 14 things I thought were worth sharing:
Here are 12 things I thought were worth sharing: 1. Publishing companies want to tell you all about their new books!
2. To help commemorate their 125th Anniversary, the New York Public Library has some opinions on their favorite 125 Books for Teens. 3. A new kind of historical podcast series from a new kind of public educator. 4. The American Experience in 737 Novels: a history of American literature in map form. 5. For those of you who loved The Things They Carried, it will now be a movie! 6. Some thoughts from our amazing National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, in the middle of his 2-year term. 7. Open access image libraries – a handy list! 8. I missed this in October, but we now have a LIVE NYC Subway Map! Here’s a great video about how this complicated digital map was created. 9. Are you a bit moody after the year we’ve all had? Use your moods to find your next book! 10. If you haven’t checked it out already, head to Bookshop, the “Rebel Alliance” fighting Amazon for market share, and in turn, supporting scores of independent bookstores. 11. Here are some of the top Best Books lists of 2020: Time Magazine’s Best YA and Children's Books of 2020 NPR’s Book Concierge 2020 100 Notable Books of 2020 (New York Times) Best Books of 2020 (Goodreads) Best Books 2020 (Publishers Weekly) The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 (Time Magazine) Best Books of 2020 (New York Public Library) Best Books of the Year (So Far) (Amazon) Best Books 2020 (School Library Journal) Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books of 2020 Best Books 2020 (Worst Year/Best Books; Library Journal) Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 The Best Books we read in 2020 (The New Yorker) Best Books of 2020 (Book Riot) The Ten Best History Books of 2020 (Smithsonian) The Ten Best Books of 2020 (The Washington Post) Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Books of 2020 The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020 (Time Magazine) The Best Books of the Year 2020 (Barnes & Noble) 12. As we hurtle towards January, we can look backward (just like the God Janus), at the many book awards that were given out this past year... Here are 13 things I thought were worth sharing:
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