An Interview with Andrew Walz, GIS Intern at the Law Library of Congress. A blog post at "In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress" on 2012-12-05. (Did you know the Law Library of Congress uses GIS?
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How, when, why and with whom do libraries (law and otherwise) collaborate successfully? What can libraries adapt from outside of the library world to further their collaboration efforts?
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Via Gary Price at LJ InfoDocket
A new report, Reading Habits in Different Communities was released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project today.
Direct to Summary/Full Text Report (HTML) ||| Direct to Full Text Report (PDF) What Does the Report Cover? The General Reading Habits of AmericansE-reading Device OwnershipThe State of E-Book ReadingWhere and How Readers Get Their BooksLibrary Use Across CommunitiesDifferences Between Heavy, Light, and Non-book readers Across Community Type Via Karen du Toit 
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December 21, 2012 4:13 AM
It seems most users are not even aware about the availability of e-books in their public libraries...
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Dennis Johnson: [...]yesterday, the biggest of the Big Six [publishers], Random House, threw caution to the wind and announced they’d struck a deal with libraries: It was going to raise the price of its ebooks to library wholesalers, but once a library had bought the book, that was it. They could loan it out as many times as they wanted and never buy it again." Via Karen du Toit Delete the scoop?
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"[...]there are more than a few ways to kill a library. For example: √ Stop believing in the libraries mission. Do we really believe in the freedom to read, learn and discover? √ Spend less time with the board. The ideal public library board would meet 4 times per year and agrees with everything the CEO recommended. √ Stop talking to your customers. What do they know any way? And on the same topic, stop consulting staff. It is a huge time waster. √ Don’t worry about the future and how you will get there. Sustainability is not an issue with which libraries need to be concerned. After all, we’ve have survived for hundreds of years. √ Stop telling the library story. Everyone has heard our story. √ Accept that the library building is old and you don’t need to keep renovating, painting, and updating it. It is what it is. √ Accept that just like instant coffee killed the coffee bean, the e-book will kill the printed book. √ Stop promoting the product; everyone knows about literacy and lifelong learning. √ Stop empowering staff, and stop training them. They should come to us fully trained. √ Stop all this talk about innovation. It just makes for more work. √ And, for heaven’s sake, stop changing the rules and our traditions. It’s annoying!" Via Karen du Toit Delete the scoop?
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Ebooks on Fire: Controversies Surrounding Ebooks in Libraries http://t.co/DIsal5KT (via @ATG_NewsChannel)...
Charles (Chuck) Hamaker takes an in-depth look at the challenges faced by ebooks “as transmitter, carrier, and shaper of our written word cultural heritage” – and what it means for libraries. (The article is featured in the December 2011 issue of Searcher Magazine.)
Among the issues Chuck voices serious concerns about are:
Chuck then ends the article on an up note by offering some innovative suggestions that might enable ebooks to reach their full potential. Needless to say, his article raises numerous questions for librarians, publishers and vendors alike. In short, it is more than worth the read. Via Karen du Toit Delete the scoop?
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