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Featured Titles for: Week of November 17, 2009
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- [NEW] Title Talk: Early Learning Classics: November 2009
Juvenile & YA Special Topics (Added 11/19) - [NEW] Title Talk: Adult Nonfiction: November 2009
Adult Special Topics (Added 11/19) - [NEW] Title Talk: Adult Fiction: November 2009
Adult Special Topics (Added 11/19) - [NEW] TitleTalk: Children’s: November 2009
Juvenile & YA Special Topics (Added 11/19) - [NEW] TitleTalk: Graphic Novels: November 2009
Graphic Novels Special Topics (Added 11/19) - [NEW] TitleTalk: Young Adult: November 2009
Juvenile & YA Special Topics (Added 11/19) - [NEW] TitleTalk: Music & More: November 2009
Audiovisual Special Topics (Added 11/19) - [NEW] TitleTalk: DVDs and Video Games: November 2009
Audiovisual Special Topics (Added 11/19) - [NEW] TitleTalk: Adult Spanish and Latino Interest: November 2009
Adult Special Topics (Added 11/19) - [NEW] TitleTalk: YA Spanish and Latino Interest: November 2009
Juvenile & YA Special Topics (Added 11/19)
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Sharing Our Cataloging Expertise - Current Winter Issue
Because their graphic nature sets them apart from both books and audiovisual materials, BWI Cataloging treats graphic novels as a separate format. - Venita Swetnam, MLS, BWI Cataloging
TitleTalk: Cataloging Graphic Novels
For decades, comics were largely ignored in libraries; they were often placed on browsing racks and forgotten. Early in this decade, however, graphic novels saw an unprecedented rise in popularity and libraries realized the importance of having them in the library. BWI responded by offering more graphic novels and developing best practices for cataloging them.
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Latest Blog Entry
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Early literacy is the topic of choice for all our bloggers this week; we have audio and read alongs for early learners, early learning resources for parents and teachers, and the six skills of literacy.
This month, we sit down with Mo Willems
Mo Willems is the author of groundbreaking picture books, including Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Caldecott Honor winner 2004); Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay up Late!; The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!; Time to Say “Please”!; Leonardo, the Terrible Monster; and Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct. He is also the author of Cat the Cat; Who is That? which will be out early next year.
Browse our full collection of interviews with top authors, illustrators and musicians such as Linwood Barclay, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Scott Westerfeld, Walter Dean Myers & Christopher Myers and many more.
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