Today’s stories include: UNESCO recognition, lending ebooks, reading for fines, marketing, crowdsourcing research, and more.

New Zealand

• Libraries, literacy & learning  thanks  @donnarae9  via  @catherinelee33. (BoK9)
• Congratulations to the 2011 winners of the Joint Letter of Recognition for Bicultural Development in Aotearoa NZ from @lianzaoffice. (BoK3)
• UNESCO recognises Archives New Zealand and National Library documents via @sallyheroes. (BoK1)

Worldwide

• Bravery based librarianship is the (only) future from @theREALwikiman. (BoK9)
• Why lending eBooks is absurd: [good points!] via @flexnib. (BoK8)
• Planned Abandonment – A New 21st C Library Skill: getting rid of yesterday as strategy via @Anne6fy. (BoK9)
• What a cool idea: “reading down your library fines” via @janholmquist. (BoK3)
• “Kissing” Books Could Have Saved Borders | Huffington Post via @VaVeros. (BoK1)
• Some good stuff here: Write up of latest twitter uklibchat on marketing libraries via @Anne6fy. (BoK9)
• Is the crowd opening up or dumbing down research? via @DamarisOlea. (BoK10)
• New blog post by Jeff Cruz: The Social Media Presence of Australian Public Libraries via @ALIASyd. (BoK7)