Book check

The Magic Pencil: Teaching Children Creative Writing - Eve Shelnutt, 1988- lots of good ideas for activities, concisely presented

Language Death - David Crystal - well-written, concise, scholarly while not being ponderous. fresh prose, easy read.

I highly recommend Salvador - my current playlist is all but 2 tracks from their album Salvador, and 1 track from Into Motion. Latin/Christian, English/Spanish. Great stuff. My new favourite group. (My only other favourite was Steven Curtis Chapman, who has been uncontested since 1993).

SPECIAL LIBRARIES MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK: THE BASICS
http://www.libsci.sc.edu/bob/class/clis724/SpecialLibrariesHandbook/INDEX.htm

SLA links
http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/professional/employresources/startingbib.cfm

Western Ontario librarian http://www.sla.org/chapter/cwcn/wwest/v5n1/tegart.htm

Book check:
The teacher who couldn't read / John Corcoran - easy to read, inspiring story
Language Visible / David Sacks - history of each of the letters of the alphabet. Cool.
Musica - history of Latin music, esp. in the US. interesting.
The Subtle Knife / Philip Pullman - 2nd book in the Dark Materials trilogy. good so far.
Tropical architecture or some such - coffee table book/photo tour, historical and contemporary South East Asian houses
Mary Poppins Opens the Door / P.L. Travers - wonderfully whimsical, as always
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix / J.K. Rowling - Harry's world. 'Nuff said.

From Laura Wendell:

"Here is the latest article about WLP. Thank you Bev Bauer, Tom Streamand all the other volunteers who contacted Debra Lau. I think the print article has pictures."

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&articleID=CA439811

3 publications (or notice of) this Aug:

MLA Forum (newsletter of the Michigan Library Association, online only)
Vol. III, Issue 2, July 14, 2004
http://www.mlaforum.org/volumeIII/issue2/article2.html
"Avuxeni, South Africa: Volunteering with the World Library Partnership"

Public Understanding of Science
July 2004, vol. 13, iss. 3, pp. 309-322(14) SAGE Publications
"Science in the News: A Study of Reporting Genomics"

LIBRI International Journal of Library and Information Science
"Non-Western languages and literatures in the Dewey Decimal Classification system"
Student paper award competition "honorable mention"; publication sometime in the next year