Snapchat has a new #AR filter that scans your money (recognizing paper money from 33 countries), generates an animation, and links to a donation page for the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organization. Here, we’ve included steps on how to find the lens, use it to make a donation, share it with friends, and post it to your story.
RT @BenTerry For years, people have warned us that you lose the right to your photo when you post it to Instagram and it just got tested in a case. A sad reminder that Instagram users are not customers, you’re the product. -> Mashable has beaten a lawsuit by convincing a New York judge that it legitimately used an image on social media.
Giveaways, contests, signed book deliveries, special events and two full days of panels with more than 70 bestselling and award-winning authors April 25-26.
RT @EverywhereFest Welcome to #EverywhereBookFest! We’re a virtual celebration of authors, books, and readers, offering TWO FREE FULL DAYS of live and pre-recorded sessions with your favorite picture book, middle grade, graphic novel, and YA authors.
Fair organizers previously announced the creation of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair Global Rights Exchange as part of a wider initiative to launch a virtual book fair following the cancellation of the physical event.
Italian booksellers: “As booksellers, we are happy with this sudden attention on our work, but we have no intention of exposing ourselves for the sole purpose of faking a ‘cultural recovery of souls.’” “If you’re telling people to stay at home, who do we open to?”
HT @DigiBookWorld Kudos to university presses providing valuable leadership, including Duke, Yale, Penn State, Univ of California, Johns Hopkins, Oxford University Press, Cambridge, MIT, Vanderbilt, + more participating in Project MUSE
Fresh on the heels of filing for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after defaulting on $972 million of debt covenants, LSC Communications intends to implement temporary layoffs beginning April 20 of the majority of the workforce employed at its Baraboo, Wis., printing plant.
Margaret Atwood: “Think of all the things you hope will still be there in that castle of the future when we get across. Then do what you can, now, to ensure the future existence of those things.”
ICYMI Check out this 3D simulation of the spread of coughs and sneezes that demonstrates the importance of social distancing from @nytimes + use the QR code at the bottom to help you social distance in your space w #AR
RT @librofm Warm toes, warmer hearts. We partnered with a range of artists to create 10 pairs of socks for book lovers! Profits will go to @BincFoundation to support booksellers across the nation affected by COVID-19.
RT @JamiesonV The Maurice Sendak Emergency Relief fund is providing grants to picture book authors and illustrators affected by the COVID-19 crisis. Applications open 4/23.
RT @wordisdiversity It’s time for the 2020 Editor-Writer #mentorship! Applications in #kidlit–pic book, MG, & #yalit + Adult Fic categories! Upcoming writers prepping a manuscript for submission – get feedback from an experienced editor! Apps open Apr 20 – May 16
The global pain from Covid-19 is real. But it is not bigger than Toni Morrison’s powerful dictum on what we are to do in dark and uncertain times. Inspired by this charge, we’ve created some Free digital medicine to help spread light. And to help us imagine and build a kinder, equitable world on the other side of Covid-19, which unmasks the cruelty of inequities we’ve long accepted as normal. Expect 7 Days of art, culture and community through live poetry, music, film and conversation. Our love medicine is a meditation on humanity for our time.
Whether you’re a librarian doing storytimes from your couch or a library fan missing in-person visits, here are eight photos of light, bright, and beautiful libraries to ensure that next time you go on camera, the library’s behind you all the way.
COVID-19 has affected 1.5 billion students worldwide. To calm nerves and raise money for kids in need, authors and celebrities are reading books online.
Hope for children (and everyone!): “One day, this strange time will be over.” Publishers and nonprofits are finding ways to get books and information to housebound children worldwide.
Well-known artists and designers are taking over billboards (donated gratis) to brighten the landscape in an emptier-than-usual Times Square. One work simply reads: “Hopefully no one will see this.”
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