This manuscript - one of the British Library's best
- loved treasures - is the original version of Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, the pen-name of Charles Dodgson, an Oxford
mathematician.
Dodgson was fond of children and became frie [...]
Now that Facebook is loosening its data-sharing policies with third-party
Web sites and applications, it's the perfect time for users to consider
tightening up their privacy settings. This week the mega
social network announced new personalization featur [...]
Ning, the social networking platform on which Library Junction is running has
decided to close down or phase out
all its free networks and become a paid only service. They say that on 4th May
2010, they will announce new payment packages. Please click he [...]
The Library Media Centre at Kendriya Vidyalaya
Pattom celebrated the World Book and Copyright Day 2010 with competitions,
exhibition and an author meet from 22 to 24 April. There were bookmark
designing and book review writing competitions and an exhibi [...]
Stephenie Meyer will publish The Short Second
Life of Bree Tanner, a 192-page novella centered on a newborn vampire
introduced in the third Twilight novel, Eclipse, in
June. The story chronicles the journey of villain Victoria’s newborn vampire
army as [...]
Roald Dahl outside the garden
shed where he wrote. Photograph: Ian Cook/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
Roald Dahl's tales of the
unexpected continue to exert a magical pull on children's imaginations
almost 20 years after he died, with the Big Friendly [...]
By celebrating this Day throughout the world, UNESCO seeks to
promote reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property through
copyright.
23 April: a symbolic date for world literature for on this date and in the same
year of 1616, Cervan [...]
If you care about the future of books, you need to understand the Google
Book Settlement. It's a complicated legal document, but we've talked to some of
its architects, detractors, and defenders - and break it all down for you.The
Google Book Settlement [...]
