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Books and Browsers: Building the Nimble Library
Building the nimble library
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Can Open Access Save the Scholarly Monograph? ALA Midwinter Spotlight
Scholarly monographs, long the gold standard for scholars in the humanities and social sciences, have been in a downward spiral for some time.
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We Build The City
In a popular post last month on Motherlode, the New York Times's parenting blog, Luisa Colón made a surprising admission: she doesn’t like to take her kids to the library anymore.
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Digital Audiobook Lending Is Finding Its Groove
By all indications, digital audiobook lending is growing in popularity among library patrons across a number of demographics.
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Check It Out with Peter Brantley: New Standards for E-book Distribution
In a fast-changing industry like publishing, the simple things are often the most useful.
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Tips for Librarians at The Guadalajara Fair: Spanish-Language Publishing 2014
The Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL), the most important publishing gathering in Ibero-America, will be held this year from Saturday, November 29, to Sunday, December 7, with thousands of attendees from around the world.
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The Fault in Our Stars
Every few months the notion of celebrity librarians (celebrarians?), sometimes embarrassingly referred to as “rock star librarians,” appears on our radar.
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EveryLibrary Gears Up for November Elections
EveryLibrary is gearing up for a big election day on November 4.
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Aspen Institute Report Urges Public Library Transformation
A new report from the Aspen Institute looks at the importance of U.S. public libraries, and how they can change and improve to meet new roles in the 21st Century.
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3M Library, B&N Offer Nook Lending Program
3M Library Systems is partnering with Barnes & Noble to allow library systems to purchase the Nook GlowLight e-readers directly from the retailer to lend to their patrons.
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Michael Kelley: How Libraries Preserve E-books
Librarians caution that we are tumbling toward a digital memory hole in which large portions of our literary heritage could one day be lost altogether.
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JukePop Hits Kickstarter for Funding
JukePop, an e-book platform that provides book discovery for self-published authors by offering libraries and traditional publishers the ability to identify popular indie works, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $15,000.
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How Strategic Library Initiatives Can Fail Miserably
Hard-learned lessons from the New York Public Library system that can help large and small libraries across the country.
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New Pew Report Explores Young Americans' Library Habits
A new report from the Pew Research Center Internet Project offers mixed news for public libraries.
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Check it Out with Michael Kelley: ALA Moves on Legislative Goals
Much of the media coverage of libraries in 2014 to date has centered on the modest progress made on the e-book issue. But 2014 has been a year of significant progress for libraries in the public policy sphere, with a number of library initiatives advancing.
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Floating Library Opening on the Hudson
Beginning September 6, New Yorkers will get a chance to visit a floating library, housed in an historic steamship berthed at Pier 25 on the Hudson River.
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How E-book Subscription Programs Will Affect Libraries
With the launch of Kindle Unlimited (KU), Amazon’s subscription service, consumer-oriented e-book subscription services are beginning to look like a coming thing.
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The P&L Sheet: Against “Curation”
I knew the word “curate” had successfully shed its musty history—cluttered with Etruscan vases and dioramas of American bison—when I got an email from Brooks Brothers a few years back announcing that it had “carefully curated” a collection of shirts for my consideration.
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A New Model for African-American Library Collections
As everyone knows, libraries are no longer just about books.
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Check it Out with Michael Kelley: The Rise in Digital Pricing
Pricing has always been a sensitive topic for publishers and libraries, dating back to the advent of “big deal” style e-journal packages and the so-called serials crisis.
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