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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>
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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>Read, Record, Remember</title>
		<link>http://dcplive.dekalblibrary.org/2010/01/08/read-record-remember/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy new year, and welcome to 2010!  In addition to making resolutions that I&#8217;m unlikely to keep, there is another new year&#8217;s tradition I&#8217;ve been observing the past few years; creating and updating a reading list.
Working in libraries, something I hear regularly from patrons is that they have trouble recalling whether or not they have [...]


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		<title>The WOW Factor</title>
		<link>http://dcplive.dekalblibrary.org/2009/12/23/the-wow-factor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim H</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The holiday gift season has arrived. If you’re like me, you’re always on the lookout for a great gift idea for the kids. Knowing that books make wonderful, lasting gifts, I set out this year to find the perfect knock-your-socks-off, WOW factor book…something that would make even the most jaded ten year old smile.
My search [...]


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		<title>Listen Good</title>
		<link>http://dcplive.dekalblibrary.org/2009/09/11/listen-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lesley B</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Library Basics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We usually recommend a book to someone because we like the story or the setting or because it&#8217;s funny, etc. The other night a patron recommended an audiobook to me because the reader was really good.  Ed Sala&#8217;s reading of James Lee Burke&#8217;s White Doves at Morning was so compelling that this gentleman had come to the library to find more. The [...]


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		<title>It&#8217;s Not Easy Being Green</title>
		<link>http://dcplive.dekalblibrary.org/2009/08/31/its-not-easy-being-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nolan R</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I ran across Vanessa Farquharson&#8217;s book, Sleeping Naked Is Green: How an Eco-Cynic Unplugged Her Fridge, Sold Her Car, and Found Love in 366 Days, I was intrigued.  While I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be unplugging my fridge anytime soon (is that even possible in this heat?), selling my car (sorry, Jnai!), or looking for love (my [...]


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		<title>Read it here first</title>
		<link>http://dcplive.dekalblibrary.org/2009/06/19/read-it-here-first/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lesley B</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[coraline]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who like to debate Heather&#8217;s eternal question: book vs. movie,  2009 is a really interesting year for movie adaptations. Already we&#8217;ve gotten the long awaited Watchmen movie and Coraline was great in 3D. My Sister&#8217;s Keeper, from the Jodi Picoult novel, comes out next week and it looks like you&#8217;ll need a box [...]


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		<title>@!&amp;$*%#*</title>
		<link>http://dcplive.dekalblibrary.org/2009/06/05/2055/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lesley B</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can find comics in your newspaper &#8212; if you have a magnifying glass and if there&#8217;s still a paper published in your town. If not, you&#8217;ll have to  follow the paper and the comics to your computer. The companies that syndicated the comics to the papers have websites. Comics.com, United Feature Syndicate&#8217;s site, is [...]


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		<title>It&#8217;s a Wonderful Writing Life</title>
		<link>http://dcplive.dekalblibrary.org/2009/06/03/its-a-wonderful-writing-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jnai W</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer is in full swing and many of us are planning fun and creative ways to enjoy the season. Whether one is embarking on the vacation of a lifetime, plotting a relaxing, economical &#8220;staycation&#8221; (check out Amanda&#8217;s blog post for great ideas on the subject) or planning to Be Creative @ the Library with the [...]


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		<title>Summer Reading is Recommended</title>
		<link>http://dcplive.dekalblibrary.org/2009/05/27/summer-reading-is-recommended/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lesley B</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every Memorial Day I have to get past my cranky attitude about being all adult now and not getting a 10-week summer vacation.  Please tell me I&#8217;m not the only one who longs to sleep late, go barefoot and spend all day at the pool. If you&#8217;ve got the grown-up summertime blues like me, relive vacations of the past with the 2nd Annual Summer [...]


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		<title>Got Twins?</title>
		<link>http://dcplive.dekalblibrary.org/2009/04/20/got-twins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nolan R</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of twin and other multiple births is on the rise for various reasons, so the chances that you&#8217;ve &#8220;got twins&#8221; is actually a lot more likely than it was twenty years ago.  This year, the National Organization of Mothers of Twins Clubs, Inc. (NOMOTC) has declared April the first annual Multiple Birth Awareness Month in an [...]


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