What We're Reading
Interface Volume 28 Number 2, Summer, 2006. Interface is the quarterly newsletter published by the ASCLA division of the ALA. Susanne Bjorner gives recommendations for professional reading to develop the librarian's perspective. This issue features Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop and the tenth anniversary issue of Ariadne.
Volume 28, Number 2, Summer 2006
What We're Reading
by: Susanne Bjorner, Bjorner & Associates
Tops on my reading list this month is Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop, by Ellin
Oliver Keene and Susan Zimmermann (Heinemann, 1997). I wouldn't have picked it myself, but it's the featured One
Conference, One Book title for the Indiana Library Federation meeting in April. I've participated in Indianapolis' One
City, One Book reading groups previously and enjoyed exposure to works I would not otherwise have read. What a great idea
to do the same thing for librarians as librarians do for their publics! Mosaic of Thought is promoted as being
“beautifully written ... and chock-full of thought-provoking ideas that have implications for our work as supporters of
reading and literacy.”
I saved Mosaic for a transatlantic airplane trip this week, but I've already started reading the tenth anniversary
issue of Ariadne, the free quarterly Web magazine on
digital library issues and technology. Appropriately, there are glances back in time by the founding editors, and looks
forward by Cliff Lynch, “Research Libraries Engage the Digital World: A US-UK Comparative Examination,” and Jon MacColl,
“Google Challenges for Academic Libraries.” But Patrick Lauke's “Accessibility Testing and Reporting with TAW3” gave me a
good review of that free tool for testing accessibility of Web pages and an excellent, easy-to-read tutorial on issues in
accessibility testing in general. Neatly, his examples tested the accessibility of Ariadne's Web site.
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What We're Reading