With the announcement by OverDrive of HarperCollins’ new restrictions on the lending of HarperCollins’ e-book titles at the end of last week, the library world has been taking another longer look at e-books and the challenges that they confront us with. Already in the last week Trudi and Ann have commented on e-books and libraries,
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A few weeks ago I watched Eli Neiburger’s 2 part presentation entitled: Libraries at the Tipping Point – How eBooks Impact Libraries. The thrust of his argument? Libraries are screwed. But are they really? We can make our best guesses and depending on whether you are a half-full / half-empty type of person, the future
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In my last post about weeding, I had mentioned one of my new favorite things — Awful Library Books — a site which takes a hilarious (sometimes sobering) look at the woefully outdated and/or no longer relevant items still to be found on public library shelves. The brains behind the site are Mary Kelly and
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If it’s one thing that divides the library profession like nothing else … it’s weeding. Some will do it with a genetically predisposed glee. For them, weeding is a deep-seated conviction that on the shelf with their Dewey cousins books need room to breathe, that less is always more, that relevancy and currency are the
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I was listening to the radio today and apparently Prince has declared the Internet to be “over“. This is interesting to me as I confess to being somewhat tired of it at times, and I figure this puts me in good company.
I know I am not alone in the intended readership of this blog in being in the interesting position of having a job focused on technological advances and strategy in a fairly conservative industry.
From Kam Teo, Weyburn Public Library.
So many times, the awareness of North American literary talent stops at the border. I think it could only be a positive thing for Canada to have more US writers come up here and find out what kind of literary culture we have here.
