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L. D. Mitchell

No more blog updates

Due to the recent changes at Ning, we no longer will be posting blog updates. FREE access via email or RSS subscription remains via our website, http://www.privatelibrary.typepad.com , and you now also can subscribe to our daily posts via your Kindle by clicking on http://tinyurl.com/ygbt7cw

Posted by L. D. Mitchell on November 17, 2009 at 3:30pm

Jenny Levine

Come join us on ALA Connect!

Hi, Everyone --

ALA has its own official collaborative work/professional networking site now! Come join us over on ALA Connect at http://connect.ala.org . Non-members are welcome, too. We're moving conversations from Ning over there - hope to see you join in.

Jenny Levine
ALA staff
Find me on Connect @ http://connect.ala.org/user/65016

Posted by Jenny Levine on April 9, 2009 at 8:48pm

Steven Harris

Twitter

I'm Twittering! Follow: http://www.twitter.com/srharris19

Posted by Steven Harris on February 5, 2009 at 12:46pm

Jess

Introduction

Just wanted to post on my blog and say hello to everyone on the ALA Ning group. I'm a new youth services librarian in small town Virginia, gearing up for summer. My crusade right now is gaming in the library, so I am going back and forth with my advisory board about the Wii, trying to convince them that this is a great way to get the teens in. Wish me luck!

Posted by Jess on May 19, 2008 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment

Eileen Hardy

A New Blog

I'm starting a blog. Hmmm. What to communicate about?

I'll start with travel books. Paul Theroux and Polly Evans have written enjoyable, interesting travel books.

Posted by Eileen Hardy on April 17, 2008 at 10:19am

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Booklist Review of the Day

The Cheapskate Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americans Living Happily below Their Means.


Yeager, Jeff (author).
June 2010. 240p. Broadway, paperback, $12.99 (9780767931328). 332.024.
REVIEW. First published July, 2010 (Booklist).Ah, yes, belt-tightening is the procedure of the day, from how giant businesses conduct themselves to managing one’s own personal finances. It is the latter aspect of conservative spending that the author of the popular Ultimate Cheapskate’s Road Map to True Riches (2007) and of the blog Green Cheapskate addresses in this delightful—yes, delightful—guide for me, you, and everyone else. Personal finance is a universal concern, particularly in these tight economic times. It is a topic that people need to know about but still shy away from. Yeager is here to draw you in and does so easily. He does not use the term “cheapskate” in a pejorative fashion; after all, he lists himself as one and wishes that all his readers would aspire to cheapskateness. A cheapskate to him is someone who lives below his or her means and does so happily. How to spend less than you are spending now is the program he details; the amazing fact about this book is that in addition to his instructions making perfect sense, like no other book of its kind, this one can be read simply for the humor of the author’s prose. — Brad Hooper
 
 
 

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