It’s a trifle ironic that, on the same day that the new NEA jeremiad, er, report on how reading is going to hell in a handbasket (again) Amazon finally released its e-book reader, Kindle. So, if nobody reads anymore, is Kindle – or, as Newsweek puts it in swooningly glowing terms, “the future of reading” [...]

Reading the latest (November 2007) issue of Against the Grain brought two surprises in one article. In his regular column (In My Humble But Correct Opinion) Rick Anderson takes up a public service issue, not his usual fare. So surprise number one is that he’s taking on the problem of the reference desk and the [...]

Editor’s Note: At ACRLog we ecourage academic librarians to share conference reports with us – at the national and chapter level. This posting provides a report from Scott Vine, Reference Services Librarian at Franklin & Marshall College and a member of the Delaware Valley Chapter of ACRL. Here is his report on their latest program. [...]