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2009 Banned Books Week began Saturday, September 26, and ends Saturday, October 3!
Tuesday, September 29th
Banned Books Week and the Children’s Librarian at 5:00 pm Pacific Time/Second Life Time at Main Stage, ALA Island (130, 103, 31) — A group discussion about issues related to selection policies, intellectual freedom, and handling challenges as they pertain to [...]
CHICAGO – ALA Island, the Second Life® (SL) virtual world presence of the American Library Association (ALA), has been granted permission by the HighBridge Company to make a six-minute excerpt from The Time Traveler’s Wife: Unabridged Edition audiobook available to its avatar visitors.
SL residents can teleport to Story Hour Garden on [...]
From Michigan (public) Radio - StoryLines Midwest radio episode featuring discussion of The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter.
Episode available “on demand” at the Story Hour Garden on ALA Island (25, 101, 21).
In this engrossing novel–alternately hilarious and sad–the author presents varying versions of events, each from the point of view of a different character.
Writer [...]
Currently, we have the following programs running on ALA Island.
Now playing at the Member Lounge on ALA Island (79, 89, 29) –
Listen to the newest podcast from ALA’s Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL, a division of ALA):
David Free, editor-in-chief of ACRL’s College & Research Libraries News, and ACRL 2009 Green Committee member, Kate [...]
In honor of Halloween on Friday, October 31, the Mercury Theater on the Air radio production of “Dracula” plays at the Sky Book Platform, which stars drama legend Orson Welles. Set your World/Environment Settings to Midnight for extra creepiness! (1 hr)
ALA Island (129, 156, 69) - Sky Book Platform
We have that classic (!) 1947 Vocational [...]
The Name-the-Garden Contest that took place during Banned Books Week was won by Second Life avatar, Bookie Balogh, who contributed the name Story Hour Garden!
We thank Bookie for the name, all the more so appropriate as it is the place of our book and other literary audio features, including StoryLines America (which are usually an [...]