Cites & Insights April 2012 available
Details here.Specific discussion of a LISNEWS post in this issue. See- Public Library Closures: On Not Dropping Like Flies
View ArticleLetters to the Editor; Responses To Potential Changes to the NYPL
New York Times: A Reimagined Library, Are the Changes Good? in response to previous NYTimes articles.To the Editor:Like innumerable writers and researchers over the years, I have experienced the joy...
View ArticleA New News Aggregator and its SciFi Roots
More interesting than the beta launch of a news aggregator called Wavii, is the recap of of such things in Science Fiction novels and stories of the past at Technovelgy.com"This same idea was first...
View ArticleAt Least He Didn't Mention The Library...
With the publication of the Freeh report relative to the child abuse scandal at The Pennsylvania State University, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Rick Morrisey is calling for the outright physical...
View ArticleSifting through quantities of information
A recent article at the tech news blog, Gigaom, provides food for thought for libraries. In the piece, the author describes the value of simplicity and delivering what users want in terms of content,...
View ArticleLibrary World Records is back online
The website for Library World Records, the Guinness Book of World Records for libraries and books is now back online.Library World Records is fascinating book first published in 2004 after research...
View ArticleCites & Insights 12:9 (October 2012) available
Cites & Insights 12:9 (October 2012) availableDetails and links here.
View ArticleAfter 80 years in print Newsweek adopts an all-digital format
We are announcing this morning an important development at Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Newsweek will transition to an all-digital format in early 2013. As part of this transition, the last print...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy Knocks Out Gawker and Other News Sites
As Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, the resulting power failures knocked out several major Web sites, including Gawker and The Huffington Post.Full article
View ArticleHas your Library Gone to the Dogs?
With the recent stories about disasters, legal wrangling, and futurism, let's look at a hands down, slam dunk, win-win idea for libraries: dogs! Many school and public libraries use therapy dogs in...
View ArticleWashington Post Reportedly Seeking Paywall
Agence France-Presse via France24 reports that the Washington Post is reviewing erecting a paywall to its online edition in 2013.
View ArticleTen Stories That Shaped 2012
It's that time again... let's look back at this year's top library headlines. 10. Bird Flu Study is Published After researchers found a way to spread H5N1 to humans, an interesting test ensued of the...
View ArticleListed Predatory Publishers Fight Back, with Criminal Impersonation
Earlier this month, a new version of Jeffrey Beall's List of Predatory Publishers 2013 was posted at scholarlyoa.com. Since then, faked quotes have been posted to multiple blogs, claiming that Jeffrey...
View ArticleInternet Activist, a Creator of RSS, Is Dead at 26, Apparently a Suicide
Aaron Swartz helped create RSS, a now ubiquitous format, and later became known for his efforts to make many Internet files available free online.At 14, Mr. Swartz helped create RSS, the nearly...
View ArticleLibraryThing Offers Free Accounts through this Sunday, March 31
In reaction to the recent purchase of Goodreads by Amazon.com, LibraryThing announced the following:In the wake of Amazon’s acquisition of Goodreads, we’ve had some blow-back on the fact that...
View ArticlePolice: JFK library event a fire or explosion
Explosion at the Boston MarathonStory hereThere was also an expolsion at JFK LibraryA third event just after 3 this afternoon at John F. Kennedy library is now being called either a fire or “an...
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Boy Killed at Boston Marathon Was Son of Injured School Librarian
In 2012, Martin Richard, the 8-year-old Dorchester boy who was killed in the marathon explosions, marched at Boston’s City Hall to call for peace.Richard’s second-grade class was there to “express...
View ArticleJoin the Board of Directors of Librarians Without Borders
Librarians Without Borders is recruiting Board members with non-profit management experience, to help us develop communications and fundraising strategies. Join our team! More information, including...
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The Taksim Square Book Club
Protest is taking a new form in Istanbul where I was fortunate enough to visit about a month ago. Individuals are standing in their beloved square and reading books of their choice.Violent scenes are...
View ArticleMendeley and RefWorks Flow: The next, next generation of citation management...
A decade or so ago, ISI's EndNote bought out most of the competition, practically obtaining a monopoly on the reference manager business. In the early Library 2.0 boom, web-based products like Zotero...
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