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anonymous

John Geoghegan: A Brief History of Book Vending Machines - 2 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...ending-machines_b_2945364.html

library book vending machines

shared by anonymous on 18 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 18 Mar 14
     
    Super cool visual look at book vending machines since their creation in 1937, including one at a modern library that dispenses books on the swipe of a valid library card.
swilliams

Inside Google Books - 1 views

booksearch.blogspot.com/...ver-million-public-domain.html

books

shared by swilliams on 30 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • swilliams on 30 Nov 11
     
    Download Over a Million Public Domain Books from Google Books in the Open EPUB Format
Jade Diaz

Books - 0 views

www.listal.com/books

browse opac projects

shared by Jade Diaz on 16 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Jade Diaz on 16 Jul 08
     
    Any way to utilize the tags to categorize books for our New Books page?
Aaron Choate

Learning Python - Google Books - 1 views

books.google.com/books

shared by Aaron Choate on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Aaron Choate on 19 Aug 09
     
    several useful tools are ending up in python... time for some learning.. [grin]
Jade Diaz

Clermon Co Public Library Pinterest - 0 views

pinterest.com/clermontlib

social software pinterest

shared by Jade Diaz on 13 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Jade Diaz on 13 Feb 12
     
    Example of a library using Pinterest for book lists. Very visually appealing. They linked the cover images to the catalog in some cases although it's inconsistent.
Sara Snow

At San Francisco State Library, a Robot will be Happy to Find that Book for You - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...ver-its-high-tech-library.html

shared by Sara Snow on 20 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Sara Snow on 20 Mar 12
     
    In an effort to digitize university libraries, San Francisco State will keep only 25 percent of their million+ books and other materials for browsing.
Jade Diaz

Kindle 2 Usability Review (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - 0 views

www.useit.com/...kindle-usability-review.html

kindle alertbox techlib ux usability

shared by Jade Diaz on 09 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Jade Diaz on 09 Mar 09
     
    Amazon's new e-book reader offers print-level readability and shines for reading fiction, but it has awkward interaction design and poor support for non-linear content.
Matt Lisle

NextReads - 0 views

www.nextreads.com

email ideas

shared by Matt Lisle on 21 Apr 08 - Cached
  • NextReads is an email-based outreach service that not only promotes your library and its collection, but reaches remote users and visitors to your virtual library branch-your website.
  • Matt Lisle on 21 Apr 08
     
    found via http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/20Rlibrary.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin NextReads is an email-based outreach service that not only promotes your library and its collection, but reaches remote users and visitors to your virtual library branch-your website. Each book in every newsletter is accompanied by a brief, original annotation and a catalog link so that patrons can simply click on the link to search your catalog.
  • Matt Lisle on 21 Apr 08
Aaron Choate

Moving Towards a Physical Archive of the World's Books - Jared Keller - Technology - Th... - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...240045

archive physical

shared by Aaron Choate on 08 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Aaron Choate on 08 Jun 11
     
    I was reading for the punch line and sure this was published on April 1 and somehow resurected... but - hmm - looks legit. http://blog.archive.org/2011/06/06/why-preserve-books-the-new-physical-archive-of-the-internet-archive/
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