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Ingram Launches On-Demand Journals Program
Ingram Content Group will provide publishers with the tools to manage their print journals “from file set-up to print on demand to delivery.”
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Toronto Libraries Go to the Ball
Booklovers Ball expected to raise more than C$500,000 for Toronto Public Libraries.
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Building Momentum for Little Free Libraries
It’s been four years since international business consultant Todd Bol constructed a wooden replica of a one-room schoolhouse, filled it with books, and mounted it on a post in his front yard in a suburb of metropolitan Minneapolis, Hudson, Wis., in tribute to his late mother.
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Should Booksellers Enter the School Library Business?
At last fall's regional trade shows, Mrs. Nelson's Toy and Book Shop and Turtleback Books each made the case that indies could and should offer a broader range of educational services aimed directly at school librarians, and subsequently took steps to make it happen.
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For Libraries, the Common Core Presents Extraordinary Opportunity
The Common Core was a hot topic at the ALA midwinter meeting in Seattle, specifically at a standing-room only "discussion group" where more than 80 librarians gathered to learn more about the new state standards, and to share their own experiences thus far.
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Why Do Dragons Look Like That?
Marie Brennan's A Natural History of Dragons is a novel with some fine art from Todd Lockwood to boot. Brennan talked about the book's illustrations and how they fit into the book's narrative.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of February 4, 2013
This week, Maurice Sendak's final book, body snatchers, and two books of poetry. Plus: a Woody Guthrie novel edited by Johnny Depp.
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The 7 Weirdest Sex Stories of the Ancient World
How depraved were the people of the ancient world? Let's just say that "erotic salads" were involved.
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The Public and Libraries By The Numbers
Ninety-one percent of adults think libraries are important to their communities.
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Ingram Adds New E-book Lending Feature
Ingram has added a new content access model to its MyiLibrary e-content platform to provide libraries greater flexibility in e-book lending.
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Libraries: Good Value, Lousy Marketing
The singular most important finding in the latest Pew study, Library Services in the Digital Age, is that libraries—in the opinion of most Americans—aren’t just about books. 80% of U.S. residents say that lending books is a “very important” service, but they rate the help they get from reference librarians as equally important.
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What We Buy Now
The first thing I do each Monday morning when I get to work at the White Plains Public Library is review a purchase alert report. By seeing what items have received the largest numbers of holds—or reserves—from my customers, I gain insight into what books and DVDs are trending in my community.
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DC Comics Looks to the Library Market in 2013
In a year that started with an agreement to add Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data to all of its graphic novel collections, DC Comics also reported that overall sales of its graphic novels to the library market grew by “double digits” in 2012 and the publisher is looking to continue that growth in 2013.
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10,000 Smashwords E-books Acquired by Douglas County Libraries
Douglas County Libraries has acquired 10,000 e-book titles from Smashwords, bringing its total number of e-book files owned to 21,000. All of the content purchased from Smashwords, including books in popular genres such as fiction, romance, mystery, and science fiction, is available for borrowing by library patrons.
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OverDrive Sees Record Usage on Christmas
OverDrive is reporting record numbers for the holiday season. The company said that its digital lending platform served a record number of library patrons, accessing content for myriad devices, on Christmas Day.
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You Have Two, Maybe Three Years...
At a small, invitation-only meeting convened late last month in the Netherlands by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), I joined some 25 key thinkers, primarily from Europe and the U.S., for an exhausting, engrossing three days of debate. But after many hours of discussion and examination—talks that inevitably spilled over into local pubs and restaurants—none of us was left feeling that libraries were firmly seizing control of their future.
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Core Values: ALA Preview 2013
The Common Core standards have been a hot topic of discussion throughout 2012 – a topic that will get even hotter in 2013. PW talks to AASL president Sue Ballard and ALA's Gillian Engberg.
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Brian Kenney Joins 'PW' as Contributing Editor
Deepening its commitment to library issues, Publishers Weekly is pleased to announce the addition of Brian Kenney, formerly editorial director of Library Journal, SLJ, and The Horn Book, as a contributing editor and blogger. In his new role, Kenney will write a monthly column dedicated to exploring the dynamic relationship between publishers and libraries, will contribute blog posts and commentary, and will report from library conferences.
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Brain Hive Adds New Publishers to Lending Service
Brain Hive, a pay-as-you-go e-book lending service for K-12 school libraries that launched in August, is adding new publishers' titles to its e-books lending library collection.
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Harvey Pekar Gets Statue Plus Image on Cleveland Library Card
In a big weekend for the family of the late Harvey Pekar, acclaimed autobiographical comics writer and favorite son of the city of Cleveland, the city's public library erected a statue in his honor and also issued limited edition library cards with his likeness.
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