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MOOCs - Massive Open Online Courses. There are multiple potential roles for libraries in MOOC development, support, assessment, and the preservation process.

Mali has been engaged in a civil war for over a year; a unique aspect of that country is the many collections of historical texts dating back to the middle ages, often held in private hands, which have now been threatened by the conflict. Libraries in Exile is attempting to save some of these works by raising money via the CrowdSourcing site IndieGoGo.

"What is social justice? John Vincent cites a definition of social justice as 'every one of us having the chances and opportunities to make the most of our lives and use our talents to the full.'"

The study habits of these students are crazy-one legged stools to keep you awake and tables with speakers that whisper lectures- for the person who likes to study during other classes.

One of four articles from the New York Times about the debate if we still need libraries--focusing mostly on Internet access rather than other services.

The Digital Public Library of America opened last Thursday. http://dp.la/

An article about how, books that were looted by the Nazis from Jewish owners are being returned to their descendants through the cooperation of libraries and a registry on cultural property from the Second World War.

An article I found interesting both for how the Douglas County Libraries was trying to own rather then license much of their e-resources and store it on a server, but also how they were working with the metadata for those resources, converting it bu a crosswalk from the publication industry's XML-based ONIX (ONline Information eXchange) or simple Excel into Marc.

A blog post that examines why some currently in fashion technologies such as 3D printers may not be suitable for libraries--namely because they look at creating a physical product rather information.

Library Technology Guide's list of Discovery Interfaces, which shows the ILS's integrated with them and the libraries that use them.

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.

The Harvard Graduate School of Design's website for their "Labrary" (Library Laboratory) that tests out library design ideas on a real world 1:1 scale.

"Branch closures and staff cuts are on the table at library districts around the nation as the summer budget process unfolds."

First of all I love Stephen Abram and his blog. Secondly I love info. graphics! This was meant to be! I wish the people of Cole county had access to this before they voted not to give MRRL any $$.

An interesting and quickly understood set of infographics about supporting libraries, only downside is while they're easily copied to websites there's doesn't seem to be an ability to print them onto posters.

The insights in this article were interesting, given that they coming from a trade publication.   I do think Brantley is absolutely right, but I'm not sure what that means for libraries.  The fact still remains that a lot of bestsellers and popular works-- which are still associated with libraries-- are squarely in the hands of the Big Six (Apple, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillian, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster) and it's yet unclear how a large number of independent publishers will have any effect.

While not a particularly well written or informative article, it is relevant that that debates about eBooks and libraries have now reached journal like The Economist where libraries are rarely mentioned.

In this well-researched and provocative article, the author argues that a "philosophy" of librarianship is needed that is based on "praxis, not practice."  She argues that rather than explaining our value to the public, librarians should explain their philosophy-- "why we do what we do"-- as that will better help librarians adapt to changes in procedure ("practice") that come with changes in technology. Frustratingly, the author never prescribes an actual philosophy of librarianship for her own part, choosing instead to review the work done by others and recap the current philosophy debate in the field.

Paul Otlet was a Belgian inventor who had several visionary ideas, such as a "World City" which would be a gathering of all the leading institutions of the world that would radiate knowledge and the Universal Decimal Classification scheme which is still used in some libraries. He also had a concept in 1934 for a radiated library that was in some ways a precursor to the Internet. It was limited by the technology he knew at the time, and consisted of a center where users would call in to ask for research and information to be displayed, which would then be displayed on a television screen. Aside from the need to call in some of his concepts are similar to early community access cable television.

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.