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Kindle eBooks from the Library
Amazon has started the library lending program and it’s gotten some attention outside library circles. Amazon launches Kindle integration with public libraries | Macworld. Borrowing Kindle ebooks:...
View ArticleThe six data-savvy work personas — Online Collaboration
“Historically, we had a centralized librarian — a filter for the organization,” [Merkle] says. “In the past decade, there’s a trend to decentralize research and the role of the corporate library. Many...
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The Impact of Mobile Technology on Health Sciences Libraries
The interesting thing about the movement to mobile technology is in many ways it is simply an extension of the changes brought about by the Internet, just made greatly more complicated by the larger...
View ArticleRecommended Reading, Apocalypse Edition | Inside Higher Ed
… publishers are not really all that interested in authors or readers; they are interested in consolidating control of distribution channels so that the only participants in culture are creators who...
View ArticlePuppies In The Library And Social Media | Information Tyrannosaur
This event is a great example of how social media can be leveraged by libraries and organizations. It’s a tool for listening to your community, responding to your users, promoting relevant services...
View ArticleNo, we can’t do it all | Information Wants To Be Free
I’ve become increasingly convinced that screencasts are not the right fit for teaching people how to use online databases. It’s very difficult while watching a video to work with a database. It’s also...
View ArticleLibraries set out to own their ebooks – Boing Boing
Douglas County Libraries, in Colorado, is trying something new: buying eBooks directly from publishers and hosting them on its own platform. That platform is based on the purchase of content at...
View ArticleFind & Fix your Potholes | David Lee King
Here’s what I mean by potholes – on your website, if the navigation is unclear, or if that “what do I do next” thing doesn’t make sense, you have caused a customer to stumble. You have effectively...
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The Future of Libraries
Graphic from Open-Site.org showcasing library use and service statistics.
View Articlelibrarian.net » I got a Kindle
Ebooks readers are great and improving all the time. It’s the ebooks themselves–the DRM, the bad user experience, the complicated and wonky checkout procedures, the lack of privacy, the changing...
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Younger Americans’ Library Habits and Expectations | Pew Internet Libraries
Younger Americans—those ages 16-29—exhibit a fascinating mix of habits and preferences when it comes to reading, libraries, and technology. Almost all Americans under age 30 are online, and they are...
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Libraries Changed My Life
Neil Gaiman (fantasy writer and die-hard library supporter) started a Twitter tag #LibrarianAngels, which has had a huge response. He also mentioned a Tumblr by two librarians to curate similar...
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‘Librarians vs. search engines’ in UC Berkeley report – San Francisco...
Now that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and others are busy digitizing old books and putting them online, isn’t scholarly research easier to get at than ever? Why do we even need musty old tomes taking up...
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America is in love with its libraries: Pew report – Boing Boing
The Pew Internet and American Life Project released a new report today entitled How Americans Value Public Libraries in Their Communities PDF, that shows a very large majority of Americans value...
View ArticleWhat the Library of the Future Will Look Like – NationalJournal.com
Recently, the Pew Research Center found that 90 percent of Americans would be upset if their local library closed. But the survey also found “52% of Americans say that people do not need public...
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Library Terms That Users Understand [eScholarship]
This document is intended to help library web developers decide how to label key resources and services in such a way that most users can understand them well enough to make productive choices. It...
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Analytics for Social media – Summary
David Lee King has just finished a series of blog posts called Analytics for Social media talking about what metrics he looks at for his library’s social media accounts. Social media is hard to...
View ArticleHow US libraries are becoming community problem solvers
We must fundamentally change how we view libraries and move from a historical idea of libraries as merely physical repositories to seeing them as an opportunity for proactive community engagement.- How...
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Adobe Privacy & Security Hole
Adobe is gathering data on the ebooks that have been opened, which pages were read, and in what order. All of this data, including the title, publisher, and other metadata for the book is being sent...
View Articleebooks choices and the missing soul of librarianship
Andromeda Yelton talks about the implications of the Adobe Digital Editions security issues. This is about the fact that we do not have the technical skills to verify whether our products are in line...
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