When I read the first part of the article I thought "Oh e-books and other electronic resources. That's cool." But then I read on-I just couldn't believe the books were "lost" where have all the books gone? Very interesting article and some of the comments brought up other good points too.

I posted something about this a couple weeks ago and then found this. Very interesting. We'll see how it plays out, but feels very 1984.

"Either the books must go, or they must swallow us up. I calculate that, take the whole world over, from eighty to one hundred thousand books appear every year; at an average of a thousand copies, this makes more than a hundred millions of books, the majority of which contain only the wildest extravagances or the most chimerical follies, and propagate only prejudice and error. Our social condition forces us to hear many stupid things every day. A few more or less do not amount to very great suffering in the end; but what happiness not to be obliged to read them, and to be able at last to close our eyes upon the annihilation of printed things!"

This one is just for fun on Friday, but makes a lot of good points.

Really cool article that looks at : "Espresso Book Machines can offer two kinds of services: print-on-demand of any title available through the EspressNet database (which includes Google Books, the Internet Archive, all of Ingram's partnered publishers, and more) and self-­publishing services for authors and small publishers."

A look at the big e-book debate between libraries and publishers.

Tablet Revolution: Healthy Skepticism Tablets and mobile computing have been the subject of a lot of Internet hype. A quick search for "tablet revolution" will confirm this, but if we're appropriately skeptical about the hype cycle, we'll want to test the impact of tablets on our library ourselves.

Joseph J. Esposito is an independent management consultant. Kizer Walker is Director of Collection Development at Cornell University Library. Terry Ehling is Associate Director, Project Muse, at the Johns Hopkins University Press.

This timeline shows 30 years of Banned Books. A really neat visual that takes a look at books that have been banned over the years.

This is just full of useful information-READ it!

This is really just a fun Friday article. These are all pretty cute--except for the one with the little girl ("Bad Seed" much?) its just plain creepy.

I don't know how I missed this, the book banning in Arizona (even though according the schools its not book banning), but I like the sounds of librotraficantes. Very interesting read as we get closer to banned books week.

Since I'm just now watching Buffy (don't judge me) I thought this was a good read about what pop culture tells about libraries and not just librarians. Everything is great until they mention National Treasure, but it finished strong so I'm willing to overlook it. Also no Music Man references :(

Free kits for teachers to help students learn to code and hopefully generate interest in coding. This is a really neat program I'm interested in how teachers like it and how they fit it in to their busy schedules. I imagine there is a lot of collaboration between teachers and librarians, since often times librarians are in charge of the school's computer lab.

Interesting look at QR codes. There's even a website dedicated to bad QR codes! My only big question is do I still have to respond to RT tickets dealing with QR codes since its an almost dead technology :)

I think we need MOBIUS e-cards or billboards, perhaps?

Big brother indeed. This article talks about using RFID tags to track students for attendance so schools can get funding, which is good. But then they go on to say the cards aren't encrypted so it would be super easy to clone one, which is bad. The first thing I thought of was, why not just hand it off to somebody you had your first class with then you would present and accounted for-doesn't seem hard. I also liked that the parents were up in arms some places about their kids being tracked, but kids are used to it. If they aren't tracked by their parents, they are most likely online via social media and are being tracked there too. Also the only health risk mentioned is radiation not the fact that you have to carry this thing every where-gross, I hate to see what these cards look like at the end of the year.

This is just a warm and fuzzy piece for a Friday. But this is really cool what people are doing here. It reminds me of a story a I read a couple years ago about a girl lending books out of her locker (seen here: http://www.care2.com/causes/student-runs-secret-banned-books-library-from-locker.html) Hopefully the city in this case will see that the people want/need a library and turn it into one!

This seems like a really cool concept (almost makes me want to go back to school . . .almost). The only problems I saw with this article was that the textbooks can be accessed through Blackboard, which is a great tool if professors know how to use it or it can be a nightmare for students if they have a professor who doesn't know how. Also I think its really funny that they stated "periodically" a revised edition of a textbooks come out, but I think most of my undergrad professors only assigned newest editions just so you couldn't buy used textbooks! But I digress. Anyways really neat concept and I'm anxious to see how it all works out.

If you haven't read or seen The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, by William Joyce go and do it right now! But this short little video shows the companion app to go with the book. I love AR and wish I could find more ways to use it in my every day life. Maybe we can create an AR app. so that Jennifer can finally have her backup dancers.