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Steal This Idea! | Part 2 | Jan. 26, 2012 | Appel Salon
A panel discussion of three bold ideas for civic change borrowed from other cities that could work here in Toronto. Each one is a 'world class" idea worth stealing related to social justice sustainability. Toronto Star's Royson James moderates panel which includes prominent Torontonians Sook-Yin Lee, Rick Smith, Olivia Chow and Sheldon Levy as the respondent. Recorded at the Toronto Reference Library's Appel Salon. Presented with Diaspora Dialogues and Literary Review of Canada.
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Steal This Idea! | Part 1 | Jan. 26, 2012 | Appel Salon
A panel discussion of three bold ideas for civic change borrowed from other cities that could work here in Toronto. Each one is a 'world class" idea worth stealing related to social justice sustainability. Toronto Star's Royson James moderates panel which includes prominent Torontonians Sook-Yin Lee, Rick Smith, Olivia Chow and Sheldon Levy as the respondent. Recorded at the Toronto Reference Library's Appel Salon. Presented with Diaspora Dialogues and Literary Review of Canada.
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Bookmarking DISCUS Content
A tutorial for bookmarking content (by creating persistent URLs) in DISCUS — South Carolina's Virtual Library.
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Information Opens Doors – Working With Libraries
Roberta Bibbens, Director of the Orangeburg County Public Library, talks about working with the SC State Library. www.statelibrary.sc.gov
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Information Opens Doors – Partnerships
Kim Jeffcoat, Executive Director of the SC Center for Children's Books and Literacy, talks about partnering with the SC State Library
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Information Opens Doors – Supporting Education
Ida Thompson, Director of Instructional Technology for Richland One School District, discusses how the SC State Library supports education.
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In Concert: Paolo Pandolfo & Thomas Boysen
Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba) and Thomas Boysen (theorbo/Baroque guitar) play in a dazzling program of Renaissance improvisations and celebrated works by Sainte-Colombe and Marin Marais.

For more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5386.
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Choo! Choo!
Burke Centre Library Event
January 2012
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Tuesday is Making Changes and Writing Sequels
I missed you. I really, really missed you

Corrine Jackson
IF I LIE (Simon Pulse/Simon & Schuster, August 28, 2012)
TOUCHED (KTeen/Kensington, December 2012)

http://www.corrinejackson.com

Twitter: @Cory_Jackson
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LibCast-36-Love & Libraries
Not Quite the way Jane Austin envisioned it.
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Josh Lewis: 2011 National Book Festival
Josh Lewis performs at the 2011 National Book Festival.

Speaker Biography: Josh Lewis writes books. When he's not doing that he does other things, like sometimes he sleeps and sometimes he snores and sometimes his wife thumps him on his head to get him to stop and sometimes he rides the train and imagines what it would be like if all people had beards. "Super Chicken Nugget Boy and the Massive Meatloaf Man Manhunt" is Lewis' fourth book for young readers but definitely not his last, because he just learned how to count to five, so he wants to write at least that many.

For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5380.
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Okee Dokee Brothers: 2011 National Book Festival
The Okee Dokee Brothers perform at the 2011 National Book Festival.

Speaker Biography: As childhood best friends, Joe Mailander and Justin Lansing dreamed of being professional singer-songwriters. Then, one day (poof!) they were all grown up and playing their music on the scene. Inspired by their own backyard adventures, the Okee Dokee Brothers perform original music that reminds audiences of their own make-believes and treehouse-pretendings. Their CD, "Take It Outside," and their live shows can transport you to the wilds of Africa, to the tip-top of a gigantic rollercoaster, or down the Mississippi on a homemade raft.

For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5379.
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Lisa Yee: 2011 National Book Festival
Lisa Yee appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.

Speaker Biography: As a kid, Lisa Yee loved reading, opening brand new boxes of cereal (to get the prize) and riding the teacups at Disneyland. She once shared a prize for cake-decorating, and at Walt Disney World she sometimes got to play Mickey Mouse. But what she likes doing most is writing. Her accolades include the American Library Association's Notable Book Award, a USA Today Critics' Pick, a Best Book of the Year Award from the Chinese American Librarians Association and a Family Choice Award. Her latest book is "Warp Speed."

For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5378.
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Lauren Myracle: 2011 National Book Festival
Lauren Myracle appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.

Speaker Biography: Lauren Myracle is a best-selling author, and her latest books include the dramatic young-adult mystery "Shine" and "Violet" in Bloom, from her tween "Flower Power Book" series.

For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5382.
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Monday Fails to Identify Herself
"So Gretchen, what do YOU do?"

Um… Well, I….

(Really, Gretch? REALLY?)

http://www.twitter.com/GretchenMcNeil

http://gretchenmcneil.blogspot.com
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Saturday will be the newest internet sensation
Alex dared us to recreate a Justin Bieber music video and the results were EPIC

No, seriously. This is terrible. Why would you want to watch this?
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Early Cartography of Panama & Darien
Due to its role as a world's crossroads, the Isthmus of Panama has been one of the most mapped regions in the Americas. Hernan Arauz examines some of Panama's most significant maps and their interpretation and how the feats of the early conquistadors, buccaneers, surveyors and explorers influenced the development of cartography there.

Speaker Biography: Hernan Arauz is a Kislak Fellow at the Library of Congress, where he is studying descriptive and interpretative carto-bibliography of the maps of Panama and Darien from the 16th Century to 1865. In his native Panama, he is well-known as the country's most experienced and respected naturalist guide.

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Cornelis de Bruyn & His Contemporaries: Internationalism and Late Seventeenth Century Dutch Art
Rebecca Parker Brienen addresses the phenomenon of Internationalism as exemplified in the work and career of painter, traveler, and writer Cornelis de Bruyn (1652-1726).

Speaker Biography: A 2010 Kluge Fellow, Rebecca Parker Brienen is a professor of art history at the University of Miami. Her most recent book is "The Dutch Republic Circa 1700: Artists, Travelers, and Collectors in the Circle of Nicolaes Witsen (1641-1717)."

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Building Model Modernities in Shanghai & Mumbai
Through the unique architectures of Shanghai and Mumbai, from their imperial origins to their current building booms, Black Mountain Institute fellow Daniel Brook examines the cities' volatile, continuing experiments in forging a Chinese and Indian modernity.

Speaker Biography: Daniel Brook was born in Brooklyn, raised on Long Island, and educated at Yale. His first book, The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner Take All America, was published by Times Books/Henry Holt & Company in 2007, and he received a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Fellowship in 2008. During the Kluge Fellowship, he will be writing about the architectural history and Westernization of St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai. His writing about politics, economics, and architecture has appeared in publications such as Harper's, San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, Slate, The Huffington Post, The Nation, and Dissent, among others. While at Yale, he won the 2000 Rolling Stone College Journalism Competition and received the John Hersey Prize for an outstanding body of nonfiction work. He lives in Philadelphia.

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From Ptolemy to Pilgrimage: Images of Late Antiquity in Geography, Travel & Cartography
A survey of Greek and Latin geographical tradition during Late Antiquity (c. 200-600 CE), when various genres of travel narrative rose to prominence. Scott Johnson links this mode of writing to the transition from a pagan/Greco-Roman world to a Christian one as new ways of explaining the known world mixed the classical inheritance with biblical and early Christian history. This mixture was to influence directly the new institution of Christian pilgrimage, while setting a foundation of religious practice for Byzantium, Islam and the western Middle Ages.

Speaker Biography: Scott Johnson received his doctorate in classics from the University of Oxford in 2005. He is a postdoctoral teaching Fellow in Byzantine Greek at Georgetown University and Dumbarton Oaks. He has been a junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows (2004-07), a fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks (2009-10), and a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress (2010-11). His current research project, "All the World's Knowledge: Geographical Thought in Late Antiquity and Byzantium," is designed to form the basis of his next book.

For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5241.
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