Posts Tagged as ‘Harry Potter’

October 16, 2007

Musings of young librarians

This week’s Chronicle has an article on young librarians and what some of their thoughts are for the profession in the future. Be sure to listen to their audio files that are linked on the side of the page. It gives more information than just in the text of the article.
One of the [...]

August 3, 2007

12 million books

I thought this was an interesting article. It describes trying to deliver the 12 million copies of the last Harry Potter books on time for their release July 21 at 12:01 am. You’re probably getting sick of me spouting off about Harry, but I really enjoyed it and find it quite the phenomenon. [...]

July 20, 2007

Harry Potter and the education of students

I know this book is coming out tomorrow and as I expressed, I’m as excited about it as everyone else. This post is not going to contain any spoilers but rather explore the way that the book and other pop culture phenomenons have an impact on higher education. According to this article (which [...]

July 19, 2007

Harry Potter

I know I’m looking forward to this book coming out on Saturday morning. I’m hoping that I get it in the mail so I can start reading it this weekend. There are a lot of people like me eagerly anticipating the last installment of the Harry Potter series. It has something like [...]

July 13, 2007

Reading Power?

According to a New York Times report, the Harry Potter books don’t really do much to affect reading habits of the youth in America. According to Dana Gioia, charman of the National Endowment for the Arts, “It [the Harry Potter series] got millions of kids to read a long and reasonably complex series of [...]