If you think it, it will come
1. “I can’t believe they sell this shit.”
Posted on May 19, 2011
The Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards
By The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
The Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards are given annually to the children’s picture books and longer books published the preceding year that effectively promote the cause of peace, social justice, world community, and the equality of the sexes and all races as well as meeting conventional standards for excellence.
The Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards have been presented annually since 1953 by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Jane Addams Peace Association.
Winner of books for younger children:
Emma’s Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty, written by Linda Glaser with paintings by Claire A. Nivola, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company is the winner in the Books for Younger Children category.
Posted on May 18, 2011
Mitch Spinach
Free Comic Book Day in Chicago
By Kiel Phegley
Kiel Phegley of comics blog The Cool Kids Table and his erstwhile companion Kegmeister hit up seven Chicago comic shops for Free Comic Book Day 2011.
Posted on May 11, 2011
Chicago’s Cool New Library
By The University of Chicago
The new Joe and Rika Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago houses cutting-edge facilities for preservation and digitization of physical books, as well as a high-density underground storage system with the capacity to hold 3.5 million volume equivalents. With its soaring elliptical dome and prime location on campus, the Mansueto Library’s Grand Reading Room, which opens May 16, 2011, provides an inviting space for rigorous scholarship in an array of fields.
Posted on May 10, 2011
Midland Authors Awards: Poison and Poetry
John Paul Stevens bio also noted
The Society of Midland Authors announced this week its winners for best books of 2010. Let’s take a look at the categories that most interest us and enhance the value of their press release with simple digital tools.
NONFICTION
WINNER: Deborah Blum, The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York.
“Not only is The Poisoner’s Handbook as thrilling as any CSI episode, but it also offers something even better: an education in how forensics really works,” Art Taylor wrote in the Washington Post.
Posted on May 6, 2011
A D.I.Y. Punk Scene And Open Access Scholarship
By jasondr11
The connection between the Chicago punk scene in the 1990s and open-access publishing.
Posted on May 3, 2011