World Book Night started in the U.K. in 2011 and on April 23rd every year publishers, authors, booksellers, libraries and volunteers join forces to spread the love of reading and distribute hundreds of thousands of books for free. The mission is simple: To give "books to those who don’t regularly read and/or people who don’t normally have access to printed books, for reasons of means or geography." Between 30-35 books are chosen annually by a panel of booksellers and librarians. The author's then waive their royalties and the publishers pay for producing World Book Night editions which are sent to to "host" booksellers and...
Follow the Rainbow: The Children’s Section at Saraiva Bookstore in São Paulo
Wow! Loving this interior designed by architect and furniture designer Arthur Casas for the Saraiva Bookstore in São Paulo, Brazil . While the rest of the bookstore stays pretty linear he has created a stunning children's section. Wrapped in a rainbow-colored carpet with Gaudi-style shelves for display I'd be hard-pressed to get my kids to ever want to leave. Images via Fubiz h/t Neatorama
Of Interest: Poetry, Poetry and more Poetry – Wessel & Lieberman & Wave Books
This month Of Interest celebrates National Poetry Month by featuring select holdings from particular independent booksellers and publishers that provide a healthy offering of poetry. First up, we pair a couple of Seattle's finest - the bookshop closest to my heart and my alma mater, Wessel & Lieberman, and one of the leading publishers of poetry, Wave Books. Enjoy! Paul Celan. Wolf's Bean / Wolfsbohne. Translated by Michael Hamburger. New York: Delos Press / William Drenttel, 1997. One of fifty numbered copies signed by the translator. $100. Philip Levine. What Work Is. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Winner of the National Book Award. $45.00 Ezra Pound, Personae: The Collected...
Of Interest : Book Burning, a Bad Library Idea, Go-Sees, Riprap, Jean Prouvé, Peking the Beautiful, Newer Book picks and more
This week's Of Interest takes us from a rare book on Peking to an anthology of one line poems to a collection of songs inspired by books with a sprinkling of newer books that have caught our fancy. First a few headlines: Seems like the burning of books is a hot topic these days - Pro-Russian demonstrators are burning Ukrainian-language books "in small bonfires in the street" http://ow.ly/uRGOL In what might a first - Vandals torch a Little Free Library near an elementary school in Tuscon, Arizona http://ow.ly/uR7R5 and in what might just be the most nearsighted, wackiest story in some time...
Z is for Zero tolerance for plagiarism: The ABCs of Information Literacy
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