Muddier and muddier.... From the press release by the Book Industry Study Group: …The Global eBook Monitor finds that men are slightly more likely to have engaged with the digital book market than women. The 18-24 age group leads in use, just a little ahead of those age... The American Library Association (ALA) has released a new report examining critical issues underlying equitable access to digital content through our nation’s libraries. Always interesting From paidContent: Hachette, which has not made new e-books available to libraries since 2010, is reconsidering the idea. In a pilot program starting this spring (which is…now? Friday, May 4th was the fourth International Day Against DRM, and wow — what a day! http://www.ted.com How do we consume data? At TED@SXSWi, technologist JP Rangaswami muses on our relationship to information, and offers a surprising and sharp insight: we treat it like food.
So if you think of your relationship with information like food, what will you do differently? I think it's a great analogy, and reminds me the Information Diet book by Clay Johnson. Because that's all about curation is. Taking care of what you are able to "digest", what "feeds" you. Good information allows you not only to feel well, but to feel better day after day and connect with others (food is one of the best social breaker in the world, don't you think?)
But curation is not a diet to try, it could just be a tremendous lifestyle to adopt for good.
Via axelletess From the press release: As part of its work on the 2011-2012 Key Initiatives, the IFLA Governing Board appointed a working group to draft a background paper on digital lending. On the Columbia Journalism Review, Ryan Chittum has a rebuttal to a number of recent posts about e-book production costs and price, including the post by Mathew Ingram that I covered here. What is needed to provide a good ebook- Blog - John D. Berry dot A couple of days ago we posted a link to a new interview with the Founder and CEO of GlueJar (provider of Unglue.it), Eric Hellman. Google is offering billion dollar checks to labels for blanket rights to their entire catalogs, according to highly placed digital music sources.
Via Miguel Mimoso Correia Lawsuit accuses Apple and publishers of colluding to break up Amazon.com's low-cost dominanceApple and five major book publishers have failed to persuade a US judge to throw out a lawsuit by consumers accusing them of conspiring to raise electronic... |
From the GPO: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has signed an agreement with Barnes & Noble to sell Federal eBooks. Titles are available in eBook format for Barnes & Noble’s Nook eReader. GPO works with Federal agencies to produce the... Available online now! The new version of the OverDrive library app, for e-books and audiobooks, has just appeared for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad III. Compared to past. A battle is raging over a controversial plan to renovate the iconic New York Public Library on 42nd Street, move two million books to New Jersey, and make the building more friendly to tourists and visitors—with a café to boot.Author Jon Reiner says this is the death of the library’s soul, but the problem is nationwide, as he discovered traveling across America to visit libraries where few people actually read books. Reiner’s memoir, out in paperback on June 5, is The Man Who Couldn’t Eat. Via Trudy Raymakers OnlineUniversities.com has a post by Justin Marquis Ph.D. 
Duke University Libraries: eBook Strategy and Advocacy Model: “Published August 2011 and Prepared by Duke University Libraries E-Book Strategy Committee. E-Book Advocacy Model Duke University Libraries E-Book Advocacy Model E-book Advocacy Statem... A good overview of mant of the challenges that public libraries are now dealing with. Eric Hellman of Openly Informatics fame (subsequently bought by my employer OCLC) has launched his new project: Unglue.it. In an opinion column at the Atlantic, Common Sense Media CEO James C. Steyer discusses the importance of privacy when it comes to children, including the data collected about their online activities. Introduction There are two major updates in the DOJ lawsuit. An additional 17 states have sued the publishers and Apple. Judge Denise Cote’s filed a denial of Apple, Penguin, and Macmillan’s motion to dismiss. The Hill reports on a change in the Federal Trade Commission’s approach to protecting consumer privacy online. Recently, and the agency released a report about the need for privacy protections for people for the data created when they spend time... 
Getting More Patron Usage from your Text a Librarian Service | Mosio's Text a Librarian. May 15th, 2012 by tessa Leave a reply ». The video below is a recorded session discussing how we're seeing libraries increase patron usage. |
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