The last month of the summer was chock-full of library and information stories ranging from articles about special collections, eBooks, library robots, and Legos to digital citizinship, makerspaces, and gamified instruction! Check out these 48 posts, infographics, and articles to get you caught up on what's happening in the LIS world.
- 10 books about libraries and librarians
- 15 incredibly specific special collections
- All the Big Five now offer ebooks to libraries
- 10 Things to do with QR Codes On Back to School Night
- The secret libraries of London
- IFLA report on worldwide ebook lending
- Vintage book reviews by NYPL librarians
- Check out a robot from Peters Township Library
- Assessing flipped and gamified instruction
- 200 years ago: The burning of the Library of Congress
- 62 of the world's most beautiful libraries
- Giant medieval manuscripts
- The public library wants to be your office
- This Librarian Is Not Impressed With Your Digital, No-Books Library
- Volunteers needed for Smithsonian transcription project
- What belongs in the children's library?
- Teen services in a rural library
- 10 people the library can't live without
- Lego week at Homer Public Library
- Working abroad as a librarian
- Bigger programs are not always better
- Ferguson library becomes a refuge
- Digital citizenship and public libraries
- The first audiobooks
- Services and programs for children with disabilities
- 10 libraries to visit with Google Street View
- How to conference like a champ
- Brooklyn launches personal recommendation service
- Streaming media and the future of libraries
- Contracts and copyright
- Librarianship unplugged
- Twitter feeds for job seekers
- So you want to be a corporate librarian?
- Deciphering the Next Big Thing | Leading From the Library
- NMC Horizon Report > 2014 Library Edition
- Take the Library Disaster Readiness Test
- 7 Things You Should Know About Badging for Professional Development
- Common Core 101 for Academic Librarians | From the Bell Tower
- O'Reilly: Five trends signaling a bright future for ebooks
- Timeline of the history of information: 2,500,000 BCE through 2014 AD…!
Many of these articles and blog posts came from the amazing AL Direct electronic newsletter.