Libraries

Update: I had not noticed until it was pointed out to me in the comments that the article I was reporting on was a year old. It was shown...

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Christopher Harris has a thought-provoking essay up at The Digital Shift in which he argues that self-published books are "not a solution" for K-12. He argues that publishers "serve a critical...

The collected papers of Alan Dundes (1934-2005), celebrated folklorist and professor of anthropology and folklore at the University of California, Berkeley, have just been made available to students and the public in an archive...

From the Devil’s Tale Blog (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University): The Internet Archive just reached an important milestone by digitizing 5,000 books at Duke. The 5,000th book, The...

Blind Date with a Free eBook (Galleycat) Students Still Not Taking to E-Textbooks, New Data Show (Digital Book World) Barnes & Noble's Big Problem — and a Solution (Digital Book World) Why Traditional Publishing Is...

BookofJoe is reporting that the Morgan Library in New York, along with the New York Times, have made the manuscript of Dickens' work available on the web. The Times was...

eBooks: Libraries at the Tipping Point Online Conference eBooks and the Library User Experience Josh Greenburg, Jean Costello, Aaron Schmidt, and Michael Bills – moderated by Rebecca Miller Josh Greenburg started by talking about...

CIC libraries made a major ebook purchase from scientific publishers Elsevier and Wily-Blackwell. The purchases included approximately 2200 Wiley-Blackwell titles covering the 2007 and 2009 publishing years, and 1500 Elsevier...

Another visit to the Library of the Future, where all the books are linked to each other.