Sections on Family Education, Teacher Development, Opportunities for Libraries and readers, Museum Betterment, and recommendation on an Irish novel that makes the storyteller quite vivid, and a...

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In her column, "The Lines We Remember," Julie Douglas mines her knowledge of children's literature for the memorable quotation and shares some real gems with us. Related to our interest in Family...

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We've just funded several teachers' institutes for this summer on opposite sides of the state. You can sign up to study Mark Twain at the Twain Museum in Hannibal, or study The Border War at the...

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There's a great opportunity for Libraries and schools at the web site of the American Library Association. ALA is brokering the free national distribution of Picturing America. It's a set of 20...

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If you're in the Branson area, we encourage you to visit the wonderful American Presidential Museum and see the CNN exhibit, the great gift shop, and the great tour given by the Director, Stormy...

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I discovered something exciting at the Amazon.com bookstore, a place where parents can share photos of themselves and their children with Goodnight Moon. I tried to say hello to four of those...

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My colleague, Julie, just returned from a pilgrimage to Ireland and is wearing a great deal of green. This morning she sent out one of her vintage book recommendations, and I know what I'll be...

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The 2008 Chautauqua tour, THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT!, will visit the following towns this June: Kirkwood, at the Kirkwood Park Amphitheatre - June 5-8Osage Beach, at the School of the Osage High School...

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Whenever I write a blog or upload a picture to my Flickr site, I face the issue of helping people stumble across it in their search for a breathtaking image or sentence. Ha! Maybe sometimes. When I...

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By Julie Douglas, Family Program Specialist "So, let’s open Black On White now and read it," said the group's leader. Sitting in a circle at a "READ from the START" program, the parents were filled...

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(Michael Bouman's "Creating Interest" Blog) This week I wrote a piece about one of my favorite singers and a representative performance at the height of his powers. The singer is Dietrich...

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We're all going out this week to order Dave Barry's Starcatcher Trilogy. These three books are a "prequel" to the Peter Pan story, and if they are as funny as Dave's other books, we're going to have...

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Folklorist Matt Meacham (Folklorist at the West Plains Council on the Arts) has signed on as program advisor to the towns that will host "New Harmonies." We've got a profile of him on the New...

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Oh brother, were we ever deluged with community applications for the 2009 tour of "New Harmonies!" It's a community-participation exhibit about American "roots music." No, not stuff about carrots,...

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Exhibit on the African American Baseball Experience - For Libraries - April 4 Deadline "Pride and Passion: The African American Baseball Experience" is a traveling exhibition telling the story of...

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In Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz, thirteenth-century England springs to life using 21 dramatic individual narratives that introduce young inhabitants...

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The American Library Association just announced the 2008 winner of the Caldecott Medal is The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. From an opening shot of the full moon setting over an...

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If you work in a museum and have wondered about the written side of interpretation, this on-line seminar at the MuseumED web site might be something to investigate. It's February 20-21, 2008.

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Thirty-three Missouri towns want to host the touring Smithsonian exhibit on American "roots music" when it comes around in 2009. That's how many applications we received by the end of...

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Devoted to Books At a recent READ from the START program, a mother told of her little daughter who was hopelessly, completely in love with a book. In this article I'll show you how to pick them. --...

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To be specific, the Mark Twain Museum in Hannibal has tallied over 18,000 downloads of lesson plans from its web site. Many of the lesson plans were created in teachers' institutes that...

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This is our last call for nominations for the 2008 Governor's Humanities Awards. The annual ceremony at the Governor's Mansion is always a high point in our year. People bring family and...

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Greg Olson at Missouri State Archives is a member of a small think-tank I meet with on the subject of visitor-centered thinking. He has created a remarkable experiment at the State Information Center...

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