02.09.2009 12:40 pm

Libraries get reprieve on lead testing

Post-Dispatch Book Editor

New rules on lead levels in children’s products go into effect tomorrow, Feb. 10. The rules have vexed book publishers and librarians, who found many weaknesses in the lack of specific guidelines.

But now children’s books printed after 1985 don’t have to…

Grants available for future librarians

By Jane Henderson

Post-Dispatch Book Editor

Love books? If you are interested in applying for a grant to get a master’s degree in library science, Laura Bush can help you.

Well, maybe not the first lady herself, but the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Grant program, which began…

A book most middle school libraries in Missouri should buy

By Jane Henderson

Post-Dispatch Book Editor

A book arrived in my office today that probably should go into every Missouri school that caters to kids 9-12 (and maybe even older). It proclaims itself a “ramble-scramble” biography of Mark Twain.

“The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of…

Libraries get reprieve on lead testing

Grants available for future librarians

A book most middle school libraries in Missouri should buy

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