Ein Erklärvideo zu Virginia Woolf

In ihren Romanen und Essays fing Virginia Woolf die intimen Momente des 20. Jahrhunderts wie keine Zweite ein. Sie öffnet Lesern die Augen für bisher vernachlässigte Werte von täglichen Erfahrungen.

[Infografik] Eine Weltgeschichte zensierter Bücher


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[Zitat] Unkommentiert – 2011

Almost everything I am I owe to librariesWhen I was a child there was no great libraries around, certainly nothing like this [gestures to the shelves of the Bodleian Library in background] but we did have this thing called the mobile library van that would come once a fortnight I think and I would wait for it like a child waiting for an ice cream van and I would get on and I would get my supply of books and they would last me two weeks and then when I was older I could get to Norwich, the local big city.  I would spend hours and hours and hours there.  It’s like the will o’ the wisp: one book lights another book which lights another one and another one.  I suppose libraries still for me have this extraordinary charge.  When I get  in one I feel this buzz.  It’s almost sexual .  There is something about the fact that behind all these bound copies there are voices, there are people murmuring, seducing you, dragging you into their world.  These are wonderful magical places and I suppose that if I have a campaign that I am really behind it is that of saving our libraries.  Because everyone surely has the right to access the voices of the past.”

Stephen Fry

[Leseempfehlung] Neue Bibliothekszeitschrift: “The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults”

Es gibt eine neue bibliotheksorientierte Open-Access Onlinezeitschrift: “The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults” (JRLYA) Die erste Ausgabe erschien am 15.11. 2010. Insgesamt gibt es vier Ausgaben pro Jahr (im November, Februar, Mai und August). Ziel ist es die Theorie, die Forschung und Praxis im Bereich der Jugendbibliotheksarbeit zu zusammenzubringen und zu unterstützen. Die elektronische Peer-Review-Zeitschrift wird von YALSA herausgegeben:

Weitere Zielsetzungen und Inhalte des Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults sind:

  • to serve as a vehicle for disseminating research of interest to librarians, library workers  and academics who focus on library service to young adults, ages 12 through 18.
  • to provide researchers with a respected vehicle for publishing research of interest to professionals who focus on library services to young adults.
  • to serve as the official research publication of the association, including but not limited to publishing annotated lists of recent research from YALSA’s Research Committee, Henne Award winning research and papers from YALSA’s biennial Young Adult Literature Symposium.
  • the scope of the journal includes all aspects of library services to young adults at every level and for all types of libraries.

Außerdem enthält das E-journal literarische und kulturelle Besprechungen von klassischen und aktuellen Publikationen für junge Erwachsene. In aller erster Linie richtet sich das Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults an Akademiker, MitarbeiterInnen an öffenlichen Bibliotheken und SchulbibliothekarInnen, sowie LehrerInnen  an Sekundarschulen, die sich für die Entwicklung und Bildung  junger Erwachsener einsetzen.

Volltextausgabe: Journal for Research on Libraries and Young Adults, 01 (2010) 01, ISSN: 2157-3980