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With the recent loss of the great science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, we’ve been seeing number of quotes attributed him in the media. However, one in particular jumped out at us.
“I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love [...]
Read More... →Last week we posted the article “At Last, They See: E-Books ‘Democratize’ Publishing” by NPR’s by Lynn Neary as our Article of the Week. The article focused on major themes from the recent Tools of Change digital publishing conference and raised a number of very interesting questions. So when we received this typically [...]
Read More... →As most of you know we have featured the Elsevier boycott as the Hot Topic of the Week on the ATG NewsChannel. In fact, it’s so hot we have featured it twice – with updates. Now, in this Multigrain Discussion piece, Chuck Hamaker adds his perspective to the ever-growing list of viewpoints on the [...]
Read More... →Multigrain Discussion: What’s going on in the Penguin – OverDrive – Amazon Affair?
by Tom Gilson, Associate Editor.
As many of you know, last week Penguin suspended availability of their ebooks to libraries via OverDrive and asked that the “Get for Kindle” functionality be disabled for all Penguin eBooks. And then a few days later, [...]
Read More... →An article from the Pittsburg Post-Gazette recently caught our eye by claiming that the e-textbooks “that the major publishers have been offering … don’t save students that much money.” That kind of surprised us. The article moved on to pointed out other disadvantages. Many e-textbooks are set to “expire at the end of the semester, preventing students [...]
Read More... →With low usage and shrinking budgets, libraries are challenged to justify resource investments now more than ever. At the same time, information users are ill prepared to navigate the amount and quality of content on the web. This creates a tremendous opportunity for libraries to show that they are well equipped to help users navigate information [...]
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