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The Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) recently released a new bibliography highlighting books for children and teens about the environment. It's called Eco-Reading, and you'll find books on the list in the following categories:

• In My World: Loving the Earth - Fiction
  
• In My World: Loving the Earth - Nonfiction
• What Happened Here? Environmental Challenges and Change - Fiction
• What Happened Here? Environmental Challenges and Change - Nonfiction
• Taking Action: Planet Pioneers - Fiction
• Taking Action: Planet Pioneers - Nonfiction

Each title includes an appropriate reader age next to it with a link to more information about each book. While you're at their site, be sure to subscribe to their weekly podcasts!

Thanks, CCBC!

> contributed by Beth

Thanks to everyone who attended "Challenging the Assumptions of Legacy Librarianship" via OPAL on November 19th! We had some interesting conversations at OWLS after the program and hope you have, too. If you missed the program, you can view the recording from the Past Workshops page on OWLSweb.

During the introduction for this program, I briefly mentioned the speakers' podcast, George & Joan, Thinking Out Loud. I have subscribed to it in my Google Reader account and highly recommend it. Each podcast is about 20 minutes long, but includes an interesting dialogue between George and Joan along with tidbits they've picked up on their topic for the day. If you're interested, here's the RSS feed, and here's a link to the blog.

Their latest podcast covered "Tough Economic Times & Libraries" and had some fascinating bits, like the story of one library that let go of their shelving staff when forced to make budget cuts, only to get them back later because the community made an uproar about how important those folks were! Take a listen and see what you think.

> contributed by Beth

The Cooperative Children's Book Center recently announced that they will be providing weekly podcasts beginning March 3rd, 2008.

The CCBC is happy to invite listeners to tune in to the first episode of our online audio program.  The CCBC podcasts will offer a weekly glimpse at happenings at the CCBC by featuring book talks, news, and short interviews.  We hope you’ll enjoy the latest way of connecting with us and also find out something new about what we do here.

You can listen to their first podcast here: http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/podcasts/podcasts.asp.

I also want to let you know that the annual CE workshop with the CCBC at OWLS will take place on April 23rd. Join us for "Outstanding Books for Children and Young Adults" and register today!

>> contributed by Beth

Check out InfoSpeaks from WebJunction. “InfoSpeak highlights the voices of leaders in the information field, sharing their unique visions and perspectives on emerging issues in information access.” Check out what library leaders such as Michael Gorman and Joe Janes have to say about their vision of the future and emerging library issues.

>> contributed by Holly