Time to blend the Wikipedia into library catalogs?
Blend the Wikipedia into search results for library catalogs? That's the suggestion of Casey Bisson over at MasionBisson. About the library at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire, he writes:...
Librarians ‘infiltrating’ Wikipedia
Good news. Librarians will play more of a role in the Wikipedia--hopefully meaning higher standards of accuracy
Fictionwise: One millionth book sold on fifth anniversary–and the sale is still on
Fictionwise, now five years old, has sold its millionth e-book and reports 260,000 registered users. It's continuing a celebratory "25% Storewide Sale" through June 6. Fictionwise is among the endorsers of...
Gorman vs. e-books again
Michael Gorman, ALA president-elect, is once again trashing e-books--this time in the June 3 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, where he rants in a Q&A against Google's "atomizing" books....
Daniel Boone’s Kentucky tale reaches the electronic frontier
"The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon," discussing his 1769-1782 exploits and using only one e in the last name, has reached cyberspace. Find his tale at the Archiving Early America site....
Librarian Rex vs. free-form labeling: Roger Sperberg’s take
"If, as Clay Shirky persuasively argues, formal taxonomies are (often) inferior to collaborative tagsonomies, why shouldn't digital libraries involve the library users as cataloguers?" - Roger Sperberg's essay Tagsonomies and digital...
OpenReader potential noted at academic conference in Norway
The OpenReader concept isn't just attractive to major e-book sellers. It also willl be a great solution for demanding readers of critical text editions. After all, it will eventually offer such...
OverDrive marketing downloadable old radio program to libraries
Details via Managing Information. Also see Blackmask's take.
In Mao’s finest tradition: Tossing old books in the dumpster–especially the Orwell-related kind
Ouch. A firestorm on the Net has swirled around the idea of the Minneapolis Public Library using Mao as a posterboy. But it isn't ending there. Now Minneapolis TV station KMSP...
A Canadian TeleRead?
In a lit review article called The Upcoming Copyright Clash, law prof. Michael Geist among other things repeats an earlier call for a Canadian national digital library.
Geist, a newspaper columnist...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
