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Conferences
PLA Preview 2014: How Do You Manage?
As public librarians head to Indianapolis, for PLA 2014, there has been progress on the digital front, the economy has held steady, and a series of Pew surveys have reinforced the public’s love of libraries. But in an age of rapidly changing technology and information overload, how are public librarians managing?
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ConferencesPLA 2014: Seven Trends in Children’s and Teen Library Services
What are the big issues children and teen librarians will be discussing at PLA?
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Conferences
PLA Preview 2014: What’s the Big Idea?
Public Library Association President Carolyn Anthony faces a dilemma. “There’s so much I’m looking forward to that it’s hard to know where to start,” she says, when asked for her perspective on the division’s upcoming biennial conference, set for March 11–15 in Indianapolis, Ind. “I look forward to meeting people whom I’ve long admired, such as Jane Pauley, Ann Patchett, and Richard Ford, some of whom I’ll even get to have lunch with and chat with a bit. And to close with David Sedaris?
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Common Core
Cut to the Core: Resource Selection and the Common Core
The rollout of the Common Core standards may be mired in controversy, but the education materials marketplace is booming.
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Publisher News
IPA Criticizes Fair Use Proposal in Australia
A report advocating the inclusion of fair use provisions in Australia’s copyright laws has drawn criticism from the International Publishers Association.
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Content / e-books
Connecticut: ‘Wait and See’ How Library E-book Market Develops
A report from the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection on the state of the library e-book market has recommended no legislative initiatives, instead advocating a “wait and see” approach.
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Content / e-books
Second Circuit Denies Apple's Monitor Appeal
A three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Apple a stay of its court-ordered external monitor.
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Libraries
Check It Out with Michael Kelley: Small Libraries Make a Big Impact
Big libraries get all the attention. But in late September of 2013, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) issued an interesting report on small and rural libraries in the United States.
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Content / e-books
Libraries, E-books and ReadersFirst
ReadersFirst was born because libraries need to have in-house e-book collections,” explains Rachel Wood of the Arlington Va. Public Library, a member of the Leadership Working Group of ReadersFirst, an international coalition of libraries that have banded together to set down principles, standards and goals for libraries looking to offer digital content to their patrons.
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Awards & Prizes
Elsevier Takes Home Top Honor at AAP PROSE Awards
For the sixth year in a row, the PROSE program attracted a record-breaking number of submissions: 535 entries of books, reference works, journals and electronic products in more than 40 categories.
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Common Core
Getting Up to Speed on Common Core: An ABPA Panel
Publishing professionals gathered for an informal discussion about the Common Core during a January 30 event sponsored by the American Book Producers Association.
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Content / e-books
Class Plaintiffs: Apple Should Pay $840 Millions in Damages
If the plaintiff number is granted, it would put the total damages in this e-book conspiracy at over $1 billion. Five publishers have already paid $166 million.
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Shows & Events
Librarians and Friends Gather In Philly
Despite temperatures in the low teens, a messy Saturday afternoon blizzard, and numerous reports of weather-related travel snarls, 12,207 people attended the 2014 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting.
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Content / e-books
Filing Schedule Set for Apple’s Damages Trial
Amid more legal maneuvering, Judge Denise Cote this week officially set a briefing schedule for Apple’s e-book damages trial.
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Libraries
ALA Midwinter 2014: Pew Previews Library User Typology
At the ALA Midwinter Conference this past Sunday, Lee Rainie discussed the latest Pew Research Center Library survey and announced plans to develop a widget that will provide librarians with community-specific data.
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Content / e-books
ALA Midwinter 2014: Abrams Gets in the E-book Game
Digital versions will be available simultaneously with the release of print editions. Libraries can license the titles for a one-year period.
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Libraries
The User Is (Still) Not Broken
Revisiting "The User Is Not Broken: A Meme Masquerading as a Manifesto" eight years after it was first published.
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Content / e-books
ALA Midwinter 2014: On E-books, Librarians Urged to Think Bigger (and Smaller)
At ALA Midwinter 2014, librarians were urged not to be satisfied by recent e-book developments, and to look more deeply at their digital future.
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Conferences
ALA Midwinter 2014: A Cold, Quiet Start in Philadelphia
Fresh on the heels of a major snowstorm and with temperatures lingering in the teens, travel snarls contributed to a lightly attended opening night reception on the exhibit floor.
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Content / e-books
Duke Univ. Press Announces New Platform for E-books
The new site, read.dukeupress.edu, is powered by the Folio eBooks solution, developed by Stanford University’s HighWire Press.
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