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</html><description>This blog will be officially announced to ALSC Membership this week. If you are visiting after that announcement, you may wonder why there are several entries already. One of the blog manager&#x2019;s responsibilities is to post at least once a week, so I wanted to give folks a bit o&#x2019; content when they arrive, try to figure out what might work well using this format, and, frankly, to see how it will work with my schedule.&#xA0; I am a member of the ALSC Children and Technology Committee, whose members have been discussing ways to involve more people into meaningful online discussions about our profession. As part of the ALSC ChildTech Wiki, we started a Currently Reading page in hopes to encourage people to share and discuss their professional reading. &#xA0;Perhaps this blog is a better venue. How about it? Is that something you would like to become involved with using...</description></oembed>
