June was a great month for library and information science-related articles and blog posts. If you're still catching up on your news, you'll want to check out these 47 stories on everything from chained libraries to setting up a Roku lending program in the library:
- The tweens of summer
- Serving military families
- Teen services in a rural library
- How to Conduct Library Website Usability Studies for Free
- 54 Library Stories You May Have Missed in May
- 10 Lesser-Known Horror Films Based on Books
- A Guide to Little-Known Image Collections with Millions of Free, Hi-Res Images
- 4 Free and Easy Ways to Display a Live Tweet Wall
- 7 Obscure and Intriguing NYC Libraries
- Digital preservation
- Orange is the new academia
- How to appear like you have it together
- This one is really bound in human skin
- Google tablets to be loaned at Queens branches
- Library as infrastructure
- What people are 3-D Printing At The Johnson County Public Library
- What does a digital archivist do?
- Libraries stream toward Roku lending
- The adult lessons of YA fiction
- Social inequality in comics
- Kick-ass female ensembles in graphic novels
- Meals from famous literature
- What kind of library user are you?
- How to handle controversial programming
- Thoughts for 2014 MLIS grads
- The last chained libraries
- Digital resources in school libraries
- College libraries push back over ebook price hike
- How libraries can survive in the digital age
- NPR's summer reading lists
- How to create a Snapchat contest
- Future-proofing the research library
- The British Library Big Data Experiment
- Five awesome bike libraries
- What's next for school libraries?
- How to circulate Roku streaming devices
- What's next for ebooks in libraries?
- Literary Legos
- What do librarians read?
- Audiobooks for reluctant listeners
- Thoughts on reader's advisory
- Formats for long-term preservation
- Academic patron-driven acquisitions
- 10 tips on organizing an exhibition
- 31 Places Bookworms Would Rather Be Right Now
- Who Said It: Tupac Or Shakespeare?
- Vine Video Summer Book Trailers
Many of these articles and blog posts came from the amazing AL Direct electronic newsletter.