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The Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing, Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University kindly organized the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, which was held in the beautiful island of Corfu, Greece from September 27 to October 2, 2009. The general theme of the conference was "Digital Societies".

New book on collaboratively "mashing up" data for use in libraries.

Robert McCrum: New Zealand has finally woken up to the copyright implications of Google's project to digitise the world's libraries. Should we?

This article suggested that by developing open source software which adopt some features like in Google, would help library users finding information they need.

Instead of the 20,000 books the school currently has, the students of Cushing Academy will have 18 e-readers at their disposal. The learning centre - the replacement for what was once the school's library - will also have three large TVs, a coffee shop, and laptop-friendly booths.

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Google Book Search is offering a new service that lets customers print new physical copies of rare and out-of-print books from its ebook library. The books will be printed-to-order at local bookstores and sold for under $10.

Three technology heavyweights are joining a coalition to fight Google's attempt to create what could be the world's largest virtual library.

More on Google and its attempt to create a huge digital library and bookshop -- the legal battle continues.

Eager to attract digitally savvy patrons and capitalize on the growing popularity of electronic readers, public libraries are expanding collections of books that reside on servers rather than shelves

E-book collections, such as ebrary and Netlibrary, provided an economical opportunity to fill gaps in our print collection. With an institutional focus on distance education, e-books seemed to provide the obvious solution for how to serve users who will never come to campus. With our traditional users taking to e-journals immediately, we thought e-books would be a win-win solution. However, use statistics indicated that our e-book collections remain underutilized.

Lulu is a print on demand, self-publish book, ebook portal that makes possible for everyone to become a "Published author"

The aim of this article is to examine the reading trend on literary, and to study how people read different materials in terms of age.

"THE fundamental reasons why the electric car has not attained the popularity it deserves are (1) The failure of the manufacturers to properly educate the general public regarding the wonderful utility of the electric; (2) The failure of [power companies] to make it easy to own and operate the electric by an adequate distribution of charging and boosting stations. The early electrics of limited speed, range and utility produced popular impressions which still exist."

This article is about to review how newspaers report developments though years.