Library Corner

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.

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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.

Google, possibly eying subscription music streamer Spotify's 6 million paying users, may be introducing a music streaming service of its own. 

Ebooks might be convenient, but they come at a cost. The spread of ebooks has driven circulation down in China’s university libraries, and even caused some librarians to lose their jobs.

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...

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Google I/O, the company's sixth annual developer conference, got officially underway in San Francisco on Wednesday, and it was an eventful day.

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.

An open source graphic maps when and where changes are made.