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		<title>Musings of A Book Wrangler</title>
		<link>http://dcplive.dekalblibrary.org/2010/03/10/musings-of-a-book-wrangler/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jnai W</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In brainstorming  this week&#8217;s blog post, I began wandering around the Internet and found a fascinating article on NPR.org. The article featured a blurb about a new book called This Book Is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson. It seems so insightful that, despite having requested it through the [...]


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		<title>When Lilacs Last in Stone Mountain Bloom&#8217;d</title>
		<link>http://dcplive.dekalblibrary.org/2010/03/08/when-lilacs-last-in-stone-mountain-bloomd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia D</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I miss lilacs.  Against the advice of every book I read when I first started gardening in the South I defiantly planted a lilac bush and nursed it through three years of misery before it finally gave up on me.   Mother Nature&#8217;s compensation for depriving me of that scent, comfortingly sweet in the soft night air, heady and [...]


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		<title>Organize This</title>
		<link>http://dcplive.dekalblibrary.org/2010/03/01/organize-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivian A</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adult Learning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Recommendations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clutter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t understand how my shelves at the library can be in perfect Dewey Decimal and Alpha order but my house is an unorganized mess.
I&#8217;ve read the best of the best—Peter Walsh&#8217;s ﻿﻿﻿How to Organize Just About Everything at 501 pages.  It covers just about every organizing situation from planning a wedding to organizing a [...]


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		<title>Literary Inspiration</title>
		<link>http://dcplive.dekalblibrary.org/2010/02/22/literary-inspiration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimmy L</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts & Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember when I was a little boy I was so disappointed to find out that most adult books didn&#8217;t have pictures.  What fun is a book without pictures?  I was outraged.  Today, still, I think pictures are a great way to enhance the reading experience.  Luckily, I&#8217;ve found many others [...]


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		<title>Who Else Has Heard Of This?: Spaaze.com</title>
		<link>http://dcplive.dekalblibrary.org/2010/02/10/who-else-has-heard-of-this-spaaze-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jnai W</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s T-minus 10 hours before this blog post is due to appear on the Library&#8217;s website and I&#8217;ll be the first to admit that I&#8217;m panicking a little bit. My muse had been M.I.A until just now as I&#8217;m hammering out this idea.
This post was originally gonna be about New Year&#8217;s Resolutions (i.e &#8220;So how [...]


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		<title>Get A Life</title>
		<link>http://dcplive.dekalblibrary.org/2010/02/01/get-a-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivian A</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adult Learning]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dcplive.dekalblibrary.org/?p=5823</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The library isn&#8217;t just for checking out books.  If you haven&#8217;t checked out a class at your library, I urge you to do so soon. Not only are they interesting &#8212; they&#8217;re free! I recently took a class on the art of memoir writing presented by Wayne South Smith. (www.thewritersprocess.com).
First, he explained the difference between an autobiography [...]


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		<title>Too Many Goodbyes</title>
		<link>http://dcplive.dekalblibrary.org/2010/01/29/too-many-goodbyes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lesley B</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been a sad month for the world of books and readers. We lost Robert Parker, mystery writer, on January 19. Howard Zinn, the people&#8217;s historian, died January 27 and yesterday came the news that  J.D. Salinger, reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye, has died at the age of 91. According to [...]


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		<title>What do you say, Dear?</title>
		<link>http://dcplive.dekalblibrary.org/2010/01/25/what-do-you-say-dear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia D</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I vividly remember my maternal grandmother being horrified the day she caught me drinking the milk from my cereal bowl.  According to her I was obviously being raised by wolves and not her child since she hadn&#8217;t raised a hooligan.  I was five.   Please understand that this is the woman who insisted I learn how to curtsy (knowledge, much [...]


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		<title>Time Travel Fiction</title>
		<link>http://dcplive.dekalblibrary.org/2010/01/22/time-travel-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this week&#8217;s post, I will discuss one of the most interesting and variable of genres, time travel fiction.  For our purposes, time travel simply means either going forward or backward in time (for a more detailed explanation of time travel, go here).  Time travel fiction can generally be divided into two distinct [...]


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		<title>2010 Newbery and Caldecott Medal Winners Announced!</title>
		<link>http://dcplive.dekalblibrary.org/2010/01/20/2010-newbery-and-caldecott-medal-winners-announced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past Monday the American Library Association announced the year&#8217;s best in children&#8217;s books and media. This much anticipated event includes a couple of the most well-known and prestigious awards- The Newbery and Caldecott Medals. The Newbery Medal is awarded to the author with the most outstanding contribution to American literature for children and has been [...]


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