Link of Awesome: FindTheData

It's a joy to share Links of Awesome. I encourage everyone to check out FindTheData. Click here to see the library comparison. What a cool tool! The site provides unbiased data-driven  comparisons. Definitely check them out. There are a billion things to compare even beyond libraries, right? In fact, I need a flight to Nevada...

Readergirlz Celebrates YALSA's Teen Read Week!

We've got the beat here at readergirlz!

We're celebrating YALSA's Teen Read Week 2010: Books with Beat
all next week here at the readergirlz blog.

We invite you to tell us about your favorite books,
chat with October featured author, Laini Taylor, about love and goblins,
and tell us who you'd love to see featured on the readergirlz blog.

Want to find out more about YALSA's Teen Read Week?
Check out the wiki here, and contact your local library
for events in your area!

Looking for a Book with Beat to read?

More than 11,000 teens voted on the top ten reads in 2009.
Check out the winners of the Teens' Top Ten 2010, to be announced
October 18th at 11 a.m. Central!

The Beat Goes On...

...with readergirlz' awesome archive of spotlighted YA authors here.

There is something for everyone!

Click here to download the Books With Beat rgz poster!

Then rock out to the official rgz playlist!

Librarians Rock Lady Gaga!

Check this out: Masters in Library Science students at the University of Washington (my alma mater!) rock it, including readergirlz Salon reviewer and celebrity librarian, Nancy Pearl!




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Library-Loving Challenge

Jennifer R. Hubbard has organized the Library-Loving Challenge, inspiring bloggers and readers to raise funds for their local libraries, bookmobiles, and book-related organizations. Participating bloggers have pledged to donate X number of dollars or cents per comment on their challenge posts.

Consult the list of participants at Jennifer's blog and click through to each blog to leave your comments!

This is such a fantastic idea. I am only sorry that I didn't learn of it sooner, or I would have joined. I also wish I had posted about it yesterday, when I first learned of it, because the participating blogs have varying deadlines and most of them are this weekend or sometime next week. Quickly now -- Go post at their blogs and support their noble causes before their deadlines pass!

I further challenge you to visit your local library this weekend, whether you regularly do so or haven't for a while, and ask if they accept donations. Donations need not be monetary - they may need volunteers and you can donate your time on a regular or random basis, and/or you may be able to donate books to the stacks or to their book sale!

Cross-posted from Bildungsroman.