- It's important for all of us to stay informed and up-to-date on the war in/on Ukraine. There are some resources for you here, here, here and here. It's also important to be aware of the many other real-time conflicts in the world and to always fight disinformation with information.
- Here are 192 ways the world got better in 2021.
- Love books & love movies? Then the Netflix Book Club may be for you! A no-pressure online space where readers can talk about the amazing books being made into Netflix series!
- Here’s another paywall buster for you when you come across the perfect full-text article you can’t access.
- NYPL’s Center for Educators and Schools recently put together Vibrant Voices: New Books from Authors of Color.
- Find your next read via Penguin Random House’s The Year in Books. Graphic Novels are having a great run right now!
- The OneZoom Tree of Life Explorer is “an interactive map of the evolutionary links between all living things known to science.”
- Looking back over all of my blog posts to date, here are my favorite things that I’ve shared with you: Language Reactor, Internet Archive, Five Books, By the People, Radio Garden, Project Muse Open Access, Open Textbook Library, and Aporee.
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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:
Here are 4 things I thought were worth sharing before we break for the Summer: 1. Here is the link to my Black Lives Matter Non-Exhaustive Anti-Racism Reading List that is updated on a weekly basis. These books will help dismantle the racism, both internal and external, that is all around us...
2. Here is a treasure trove of Summer Reading Lists that should keep you busy: The Ultimate Summer 2020 Reading List (contains multiple lists) Publisher’s Weekly Summer Reads 2020 125 Books We Love (NYPL) The Best Books of 2020 So Far (BBC) Summer Reading 2020 with Bill Gates Summer Reading at NY Libraries BKLYN Public Library Summer Reading (Middle School) BKLYN Public Library Summer Reading (High School) Summer Reading List from ALSC (Grades 6-8) UC Berkeley Summer Reading List Let Books Create Your Summer (NYTimes) NPR’s Book Concierge (Young Adult) The 30 Best Beach Reads of 2020 (Parade Magazine) The Best Books of 2020 (So Far) (Real Simple) 100 Books of Summer (Barnes & Noble) The Best Books of 2020 so far (BBC) New York Times Book Review New York Public Library Quest for Adventure Summer 2020 SLJ Summer Series Best Reads 2020 (School Library Journal) Summer Reading 2020 (Brooklyn Public Library) ALA’s 2020 Best Lists 3. Take a minute to sign up for NYPL’s Connect newsletter which will keep you up to date on online author events, book clubs, and literary events in the community. 4. Please tell the teens in your life that It’s time for the 11th Annual New York Times Summer Reading Contest! A chance to think deeply and creatively about what is going on in our world, and a chance to get published in the New York Times! Here are 17 things I thought were worth sharing:
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Here are 11 things I thought were worth sharing: 1. It’s the best time of the year to buy books for yourselves (and maybe other people!) Here are some helpful end-of-year lists you can check out to help you make your decisions!
100 Notable Books (New York Times) Best Books of the Year (So Far) (Amazon) Best Books of 2019 (Goodreads) Best Books 2019 (Publishers Weekly) Best Books 2019 (School Library Journal) Best Young Adult Books of 2019 (Kirkus Reviews) Best Books of 2019 (New York Public Library) CSMCL Best Books of 2019 NPR’s Book Concierge 2019 Time Magazine's Must-Read Books of 2019 2. Better World Books + the Internet Archive = Perfect Together! 3. Even in these trying global and local times, there are reasons to be cheerful... 4. Want to get ahead and add more tools to your mental toolkit? Take some of these classes/certifications! 5. Teaching climate change to your students? Subscribe to Acid News for free! 6. There are more and more great books for teens about depression and other mental health issues. Check out some of them here and here. 7. Did you know that Poets.org created poetry lesson plans for multiple subject areas? 8. Brooklyn Prospect now has access to Adam Matthew’s Race Relations in America database! Click here for more details! 9. Stay tuned for details on our new free online access to the Financial Times and their lesson plans for teachers! 10. The folks at Stanford are really helpful! Check out their new & free Civic Online Reasoning curriculum that you can use with your students to help them better evaluate the information they come across in their digital lives. 11. Teachers, check out FindNYCulture! It is a “a searchable directory of New York’s 4600+ museums, libraries, historical societies, science centers, parks, zoos, university art galleries, planetariums, and more.” Perfect for teachers and parents! |
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