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		<title>Summer reading!</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/05/24/summer-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 23:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember when I asked you for summer reading list suggestions? I finished the list a long time ago, of course, but it&#8217;s finally on our website. (That link will open a PDF.)
The middle school section at the beginning is the part you helped with. (And those yellow highlighted books, by the way? Are links to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Operation Teen Book Drop</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/04/13/operation-teen-book-drop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More apocalypsey goodness tonight, I promise. But in the meantime, Guys Lit Wire is running a fantastic book drive for Native American reservation school libraries. These schools don&#8217;t have much budget for new books, so their collections are looking a little sad. Help get some shiny new reading material into the hands of these kids!
In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on books in libraries</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/02/16/more-on-books-in-libraries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following up on last week&#8217;s post about books in libraries&#8230; the NYTimes Room for Debate blog posted some of the comments from students.  Most didn&#8217;t say much new, but here are a couple of thoughts I liked:
One signed just &#8220;a thought&#8221;:

Also, books (or any other printed material) cannot be changed by any means without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do libraries need books?</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/02/11/do-libraries-need-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: Even more than usual, note the disclaimer.  I am speaking my own mind, not that of my Library Director (quoted in this article) or my school.
Today&#8217;s New York Times includes an online Room for Debate feature: Do School Libraries Need Books?  The debaters include James Tracy, Head of the now infamous in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ALA gleeee</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/01/15/ala-gleeee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m too cheap to attend the American Library Association conference for real.  But I am not too cheap to spend $35 on an exhibit pass when the conference happens to swing by my town!  That $35 easily paid for itself in free ARCs this evening alone:
The Prince of Mist, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Green Witch, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the weeding shelf&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/11/19/from-the-weeding-shelf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The kids are always horrified by this, but sometimes we get rid of books.  Usually there&#8217;s a good reason.  Sometimes there&#8217;s a very, very good reason.  I want to share with you some of the best that cross my desk on their way to the &#8220;free books&#8221; cart&#8230;

Crosbie, John S. Crosbie&#8217;s Dictionary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome, Shannon!</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/10/18/welcome-shannon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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We were delighted to host the charming Shannon Hale a couple of weeks ago!  She signed great heaping piles of books while chatting with our kids, gave a fabulous presentation to a room full of rapt middle schoolers, and even handled their slight rowdiness (born only of enthusiasm, I assure you) like a teaching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wading into the Cushing Controversy</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/09/22/wading-into-the-cushing-controversy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/09/22/wading-into-the-cushing-controversy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ETA: This seems to be confusing people, so I&#8217;ll make it extra-clear: this is not my school!  Just another independent school in MA.
Our li&#8217;l MA independent school library world is national news: the headmaster of Cushing Academy was interviewed on Here and Now today (listen to &#8220;Technology in the Classroom&#8221;).  
What&#8217;s the deal? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peep this</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/04/01/peep-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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Given their &#8220;rather fluffy skeletal structure,&#8221; Peeps have some special difficulties using the library&#8230; but in their research and printing practices, it turns out that they are much like college students.
Comment here
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		<title>Rent-a-cake?</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/03/18/rent-a-cake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or at least, a cake pan:
Check out a cake pan from your library
Apparently they have Spiderman and enchanted castles!
Because I&#8217;m a librarian, my first thoughts were: a) that must be expensive to send through interlibrary loan, and b) which low-level employee gets stuck with scrubbing the poorly cleaned cake pans?  I know, I&#8217;m such [...]]]></description>
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