A number of sites are participating in April Fool's Day fun, check out:
ShelfAwareness with a number of fun & foolish 'news' articles
Amazon.com's front page with fun oldies but goodies, in multiple categories:
Special Libraries Association which has an Iconic rock band coming together to play at the SLA 2015 Annual Conference
redbox, advertising a 'new' service: Petbox "Does your pet have a movie request?"
What 'foolery' have you come across today?
Can't wait to see what other April Fool's Day nonsense is happening in the world. :-)
ReplyDeleteThe Des Plaines Public Library (IL) has a new member in their Youth Services department: http://dppl.org/blog/post/welcome-to-youth-services
ReplyDeleteFrom the folks who bring you the 'Clean Reader App': http://www.cleanreaderapp.com/ ... consider the 'Dirty Word App': http://dirtyreaderapp.com/
ReplyDeleteToo bad it's only an April Fool's Day joke because I'm sure there a plenty of folks who'd love to apply it to whatever book they are reading. :-)
Today, April 1st, the Swiss Army Librarian, introduced a new concept for family-friendly shelving, an alternative to shelving by Dewey, which they are calling 'Intergenerational shelving' - http://goo.gl/Q8ynOk
ReplyDeleteCheck out the discussion in the responses ... :-)