ALA 2013: All Our Coverage
Our complete coverage of ALA 2013, including a survey of the main events; the speakers; the readings, discussions, and presentations; the panels, and more. more...Introducing the Library Of 2020
Wondering about the future of libraries? You don’t need a crystal ball—just pick up Joe Janes’s new book. more...The Golden Age of Piracy: PW Talks with Robert Spoo
As a new copyright reform movement gains momentum, and international treaties propose to “normalize” copyright laws globally, it is amazing to see how history does repeat itself. more...Checking Out Romance: Focus on Romance 2013
It's a love match between librarians and romance publishers. more...cookbooks and more. Sign up here!
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2013 Library of the Year Award Goes to Howard County Library System
Maryland's Howard County Library System has been named 2013 Library of the Year by Gale and Library Journal.
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Small Towns, Broad Tastes: Focus on Romance 2013
Smalltown cozy romances often portray quiet communities where a chaste kiss is looked on as something shocking, but readers in actual small towns are considerably more open-minded, picking up everything from Amish romance to kinky erotica.
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Checking Out Romance: Focus on Romance 2013
It's a love match between librarians and romance publishers.
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So You Think You Want to Be a Librarian?
Most people’s knowledge of librarianship is a mash-up of Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in Desk Set, some warm and fuzzy memories from an elementary school class visit, Rupert Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, even fuzzier memories of all-nighters in their college libraries, and maybe a high-minded article or two about the Digital Public Library of America.
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How Graphic Novels Became the Hottest Section in the Library
According to old stereotypes, it shouldn’t work—serious librarians should want nothing to do with the raucous, pulp world of comics—and for a long time it didn’t.
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Pew Report: Parents Depend on Libraries to Nurture Reading Habits
The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project reports, in its latest study, that "fully 94% of parents say libraries are important for their children, with access to books at the the top of library services." The report continues: “Libraries," parents say, “help inculcate their children’s love of reading and books.”
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S&S Offers E-Book Lending, Purchase Via New York City Libraries
The one-year pilot program with the city's three library systems will make the complete Simon & Schuster e-book catalogue available for unlimited checkout during that period.
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Give ’em What They Want?
In his last column, Brian Kenney did a good and fair job of outlining the Douglas County Libraries e-book model, in which we host and manage our own digital content. Yet, his conclusion was a little puzzling.
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Meet Your Makers
When the Boston Public Library—the first free municipal library—opened its doors in 1854, its mission was to create an “informed citizenry”—think the works of John Stuart Mill, or Cicero in translation.
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Conference Report: Beyond PDF 2
Academic results have been bundled into journals to facilitate their sharing since 1665, noted attendees at the recent Beyond PDF 2, conference, in Amsterdam. But the Web has brought with it an opportunity to blow up and remake academic publishing.
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