Students Get New Assignment: Pick Books You Like
For years Lorrie McNeill loved teaching “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the Harper Lee classic that many Americans regard as a literary rite of passage. But last...
View ArticleThe Updating Game
Great column from Gail Collins in Friday’s NY Times about how your computers/phones/blackberries etc. want to keep you updated. There was a time when people in...
View ArticleWhat Facebook Quizzes Know About You: Take Action FB Users
What Facebook Quizzes Know About You – NYTimes.com advises facebook users that even if they themselves don’t use a particular app, that the app. can access...
View ArticleFacebook Exodus
Another Facebook article from the NYTimes, this one about Why People Are Quitting Facebook.
View ArticleLook This Up on Wikipedia: How Big Is Too Big?
Considering that Wikipedia has reached Top Five world status among Web sites – with more than 330 million users – its annual Wikimania conference, which ended...
View ArticleDire Warning to Publishers: The End of Hardbacks
According to the French publishing group Hachette: Hardback books could be killed off if Amazon’s e-books and Google’s digital library force publishers to slash prices, warns...
View ArticleReading by the Numbers
Essay in the Sunday New York Times Book Review. Reading by the Numbers “Reading management” software cannot identify what makes some books so complex and lovely...
View ArticleMeet Beth Hollis, aka MegaBeth
By day, she’s Beth Hollis, a 53-year-old reference librarian in Akron, Ohio. By night, she’s MegaBeth, an ageless dynamo on the roller derby rink. Before discovering...
View ArticleFlood The LFPL With Money Today!
By now you probably know the story. Louisville’s Main Library at York and Third streets was heavily damaged by flooding, with thousands of books soaked and...
View ArticleNo parking? Librarians will deliver to your car
There’ll be no carhops on roller skates. And if you’re hankering for a burger and fries, forget it. But if it’s food for the mind you...
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