“Librarian Patience Has Run out on E-Book Lending Issues, Library Association Says” was the title of the article that ran in Digital Book World last week covering a private meeting between the ALA ...
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I’m headed to BEA next week (I’m on the conference advisory board for the BEA Bloggers part of the conference), and will have a good three days of listening Delete the scoop?
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Great news for libraries, the last of the big 6 (big 5 now I guess) has begun a pilot project to license content to several libraries in New York. Below are links to several articles and blog post... Delete the scoop?
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American Libraries Magazine, the magazine of the American Library Association, delivers news and information about the library community. Delete the scoop?
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A new study shows that among 16- to 29-year-olds, 8 in 10 have read a book in the past year. Delete the scoop?
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Why do so many students choose Wikipedia when asked to find information on the Internet? I believe the answer is that Wikipedia is like the McDonalds of the Internet, you can always find it and you know what you’re going to get. Delete the scoop?
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.What amazing things technology is bringing into our life. What is even more amazing in technology is its unpredictability. We never know what will come next and in the same time we are alwasy looking for innovations. At first we started with technology, then things advanced to give birth to mobile technology and now we are living in an age of nanotechnology. Isn't it amazing how human life is developing into the unknown ? Via Susan Bainbridge, Jenny Smith, Pippa Davies @PippaDavies Delete the scoop?
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In this day and age of digital books, library attendance is falling as people pick up their Kindles instead of paperbacks. One library in Illinois decided to win back patrons by embracing this technology instead of fighting it, says a report in Winnetka Talk. Via John Evans, Donna Clark Delete the scoop?
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Simmering all last year, the disagreements between libraries and publishers have broken into a rolling boil. Delete the scoop?
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Months in the making, ALA' Library Technology Report (Volume 49, Issue 3) on ebook platforms for libraries is finally out. Note from author Mirela Roncevic: "Librarians, I hope you find the compara... Via Donna Clark Delete the scoop?
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The Guardian Via Pekka Puhakka, nickcarman 
Susan M. Toy's curator insight,
April 19, 12:51 PM
"Amazon, Google and all of those things probably aren't the enemy. The enemy right now is simply refusing to understand that the world is changing". 
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Neil Gaiman wants publishers to bend a little, and take some risks. Delete the scoop?
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E-reader owners read more books in a year than their print-only counterparts. Is print really a dying medium? Delete the scoop?
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has published 643 books about art and art history online, including the full contents of 368 out-of-print titles from 1964 to the present. Delete the scoop?
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One of the benefits of an e-reader is being able to read while outside a WIFI Area. Delete the scoop?
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A great deck from InSites Consulting showing the results of their study into 7,827 people's social media usage spanning 19 countries: Their main... Delete the scoop?
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