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The world's ugliest websites are not library websites. But we're not far behind.
Last week I had an interesting Twitter conversation regarding a popular rhetorical strategy surrounding maker-spaces, New Librarianship, participatory culture, and the other assorted "big ideas" fo...
The best selling writer has refused to allow his latest book Joyland to be published in digital format. He hopes to give a boost to many booksellers worldwide.
American Libraries Magazine, the magazine of the American Library Association, delivers news and information about the library community.
Introduction I was recently asked by a colleague about Open Access (OA) journals. Her interests are in the areas of cancer and medical genetics. She'd had unfortunate recent experiences with anonym...
American Libraries Magazine, the magazine of the American Library Association, delivers news and information about the library community.
Google I/O, the company's sixth annual developer conference, got officially underway in San Francisco on Wednesday, and it was an eventful day.
This site is designed to provide information about the concept of metaliteracy. It also highlights work that is being done in connection with metaliteracy by a group of PIs working on a SUNY IIT (Innovative Information Technology) grant. The grant awarded in 2012 is Developing a SUNY-wide Transliteracy Learning Collaborative to Promote Information and Technology Collaboration.
Via John Shank
Children are spending more time time reading on computers or other electronic devices than on books, magazines and comics for the first time, according to a study out today.
And other crazy facts about Google's search business.
The paint on my worn out ol' library soapbox is getting rather chipped these days, but I'm about to get back up on it, my friends. Brace yourselves.
This is the evening before Google's I/O developer conference and there's already been quite a bit of chatter about what the company will announce and share at the conference.
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Envisioning the library of the future, a major research project undertaken over the past year, is published today. The research will help library staff, funders and users to better understand what libraries could and should look like in the future.
Android: Google has updated its Drive mobile app with a cleaner, cards-style look and several awesome new features. Among them: the ability to download a copy of documents directly to your device and scan papers using OCR.
New venture Librii is seeking to set up self-sustaining libraries with internet access in poor and isolated communities, writes James Bridle
The opening act of Google I/O 2013 has come and gone without any major software overhaul or hardware announcements, but I'm thankful anyways.
Google has added the feature to upload your own ebooks to Google Play Books. This means you can upload your own files and read them on any of your devices with the Google Play Books ereader app installed.
Old-school archival: A huge disk from the c1967 Atlas Disc file. Image: dullhunk/Flickr The year is 2093. The world is scrambling to contain an outbrea
Editorial I saw a great project a couple of days ago from a small town called Northlake (30,000 residents) near Chicago which shows how imagination and the internet can be used together in order to...
A scholarly publisher has issued a warning to Jeffrey Beall, a Colorado librarian who writes about what he calls "predatory" practices in the journal industry, threatening him with a $1 billion lawsuit for his blog posts about the company.
55 Content Curation Tools To Discover & Share Digital Content
Increasingly, we buy a device because it's going to work with our other devices and existing apps. We don't want just the gadget itself; we want the ecosystem it inhabits. And Google's ecosystem is fractured.
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