A Lively Mind: Your Brain On Jane Austen - 1 views
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adrienne_mobius on 12 Oct 12Literary neuroscience, anyone?
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Losing My Revolution: How Many Resources Shared on Social Media Have Been Lost? - 1 views
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Researchers found a nearly linear relationship between time of sharing of the resource and the percentage lost, with a slightly less linear relationship between time of sharing and archiving coverage of the resource. From this model we conclude that after the first year of publishing, nearly 11% of shared resources will be lost and after that we will continue to lose 0.02% per day.
The decaying web and our disappearing history - 1 views
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"Our online history is disappearing at an astonishing rate, creating a black hole for future historians. "
ALA Responds to AAP Challenges on Ebooks . . . Before They Are Even Issued | American L... - 1 views
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The ALA Digital Content and Libraries Working Group published an "Ebook Business Models for Public Libraries" report August 8. You can read more about the process, or jump right to a PDF download of the report.
Librarian Patience Has Run out on E-Book Lending Issues, Library Association Says | Dig... - 2 views
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Earlier this week the ALA sent a strongly worded open letter to publishers about the need to figure out way for publishers to sell libraries e-books for "equitable use at a reasonable price."
The Social Library: How Public Libraries Are Using Social Media - 0 views
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Is the Social Web being integrated into our public libraries? This installment in ReadWriteWeb's Social Books series aims to find out.
Print On Demand: Major Announcement Could Change How You Buy Books - 1 views
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"The makers of the POD Espresso Book Machine currently installed in fewer than a hundred bookstores nationwide, have announced new partnerships with Eastman Kodak and ReaderLink Distribution Services. Under the arrangement, the company's POD technology will be made available to retailers who have Kodak Picture Kiosks, currently installed in 105,000 locations according to Publishers Weekly, including drugstores and supermarkets. "
When You Wish Upon a Book - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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It's never been easier to keep track of all the books you're never going to read.
Publishers Agree To $69 Million Settlement For Ebook Buyers - 0 views
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The proposed settlement of the antitrust suit against HarperCollins, Hachette SA, and Simon & Schuster will be effective 30 days from approval, with compensation distributed to each state. 49 states (excluding Minnesota) accused the publishers of price fixing.
Hunger Games overtakes Harry Potter as Amazon's top book series - CNN.com - 1 views
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"Girl wonder beats boy wizard."
Librarians are Completely Awesome - EdTech Researcher - Education Week - 1 views
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If you want to read something that makes you feel all warm and fuzzy about being a librarian... this is it.
Library Heroes Shelter Evacuees from the Summer of 2012 | American Libraries Magazine - 1 views
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Well, now I know where all our rain went. It all ended up at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, where eight feet of water covered the library's lower level.
Want to Be a Great Leader? Start Reading - 0 views
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"Steve Jobs had an 'inexhaustible interest' in William Blake; Nike founder Phil Knight so reveres his library that in it you have to take off your shoes and bow; and Harman Industries founder Sidney Harman called poets 'the original systems thinkers,' quoting freely from Shakespeare and Tennyson."
A Digitally Inspired Veil, Intended to Save Lives, Appears at N.Y.U. Library - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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This headline caught my attention: "NYU Library Imprisons Students in a Video Game to Stop Them from Killing Themselves." The atrium of the school's main library has been enclosed with perforated aluminum screens, in an effort to curb suicides.
Survey Reveals Librarians Second Only to Doctors in Public's Trust - 2 views
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That's quite an honor.
Libraries to try buying e-books directly - SFGate - 1 views
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"Starting this fall, the 220-member library cooperative Califa Library Group will begin rolling out a $325,000 project with the goal of buying from the smaller publishing companies thousands of e-books that the libraries will own forever."
Gen Y: the most book-loving generation alive? - CSMonitor.com - 1 views
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"So much for Gen Y stereotypes. Turns out they aren't sun-deprived geeks sitting alone in the basement, with only a controller, joystick, or keyboard, and the final level of Skyrim to keep them company. There's a pile of books next to the game console, too."
The Death of the Book Through the Ages - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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"Every generation rewrites the book's epitaph; all that changes is the whodunit."
Why Recent Court Decisions Don't Change the Rules on Filtering | American Libraries Mag... - 2 views
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This article mentions the court case involving the Camdenton school district, where the library's use of filtering was found to be unconstitutional. The school district agreed to stop blocking LGBT websites, submitted to 18 months of monitoring, and had to pay $125,000 in attorneys' fees.
'Library of the Future' Gets $1-Million Boost From Humanities Endowment - Wired Campus ... - 0 views
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The Digital Public Library of America initiative received $1 million to support the creation of the infrastructure for a national open-access digital library.
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