News archive for small-town America
We've always been keen on The Memory Thing--putting local news archives, genealogical information and similar items online. Who says a TeleRead-style library effort should involve e-books alone, as important as...
E-books at Cleveland library: Novels beat out nonfiction
The dogma is that electronic books won't work out for most recreational reading. Supposedly librarians should confine e-books to nonfiction categories like reference--with a few exceptions such as sci-fi and...
Sick on the Great Plains: The perils of ‘efficient’ information policies
Most cash-strapped families, especially on the Great Plains, wouldn't have paid for medical information via the Net. Just why not trust the doctor? Why gamble the money on such a...
E-Book library spam–and a cure
A few weeks ago I shelled out $9.06 for Fallen: Confessions of a Disbarred Lawyer. Sleazy lawyers fascinate me. They're entertaining caricatures of the "honest" ones. Give me Body Heat's...
netLibrary and OCLC: Will the latter live up to the vision I had for...
The story of netLibrary under OCLC has yet to be written. Will the e-collection evolve into a true digital library system on a TeleRead scale? Too, will the new netLibrary...
Terrorism, the Library of Congress and TeleRead
"Officials at the Library of Congress say the irradiation of government mail is damaging some items intended for the library's collections."--Library Journal item (registration required)TeleRead angle: The irradiation is a...