[Dcmosls] Just a few things...

[Charles O'Bryan]

Happy Snow Day!

Just a few new resources and items of interest for you from American Libraries Direct.

Super-expensive comic book
Action Comics #1, a June 1938 comic book that featured the first appearance of Superman and originally cost 10 cents, was sold for $1 million at an auction through the website ComicConnect.com, making it the most expensive comic book of all time. A private purchaser in New York won the bid from a private seller, both unnamed. Only about 100 copies of this issue remain in existence, and of those, only two (including this one) have a grading of 8.0 (very fine). The previous record-holder was another Action Comics #1 graded at 6.0 that sold in 2009 for $317,200....
Comics Alliance, Feb. 22

The Most Amazing Libraries in the World
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/22/the-most-amazing-librarie_n_432126.html?slidenumber=DkrIiwugeCc%3D&

Part II
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/22/the-most-amazing-librarie_n_469484.html?slidenumber=DDt0B%2FCJBk0%3D&


Europeana: think culture
http://europeana.eu/portal/

Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration. It links you to 6 million digital items. 
•	Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects
•	Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers
•	Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts
•	Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts
Some of these are world famous, others are hidden treasures from Europe's 
•	museums and galleries
•	archives
•	libraries
•	audio-visual collections

Enjoy.

Chuck


Charles O'Bryan
School Library System, Coordinator
DCMO BOCES
6678 County Road 32
Norwich, NY  13815

Tel: 607.335.1371
Fax: 607.336.6518

“When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.”
--Isaac Asimov