Archive for 'Books'
The Organization of Information
My husband (a philosophy professor) and I (a librarian and former bookstore manager) just finished cataloging our entire book collection into LibraryThing. You can only imagine the number of bookshelves in our house, right? For Valentine’s Day I gave him an LT lifetime subscription and he gave me one of their CueCat scanners, and we [...]
Posted by ssmith on May 20th, 2009 under Books, First Year Academic Librarian Experience, library careers.
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Disruptive Technology Alert
A big news event in higher education being reported today (other than Blackboard acquiring Angel) is Amazon’s release of a new large-screen Kindle device that is specifically designed for the e-textbook market. Amazon organized a news conference and was joined by representatives from several different colleges and universities that will be testing the device to [...]
Posted by StevenB on May 7th, 2009 under Books, Technology Issues.
Comments: 8
Local Food (for Thought) Movement
LJ Academic Newswire reports that U Penn is the latest to offer scan-on-demand with quality print output. Emory uses the same Kirtas machine to offer a curated collection of books relevant to Emory and to the South, unique in their collections. UMich, which has a rich collection of books scanned through their own efforts and [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on February 25th, 2009 under Books, Information Ethics, Technology Issues, information industries.
Comments: 7
The Book of Dead Philosophers
I will continue with my silly-yet-very-librarianish method of naming my posts after books, just because I can. Since my husband (a philosophy professor) enticed me with this book title the other day, it seemed very appropriate to use it for the post I was planning to write. So, I ask, are books dead? That seems [...]
Posted by ssmith on February 17th, 2009 under Books, First Year Academic Librarian Experience.
Comments: 7
Libraries on Planet Google
It has been a week since news of the Google settlement with authors and publishers broke. Though rumors had been rife that it was imminent, I was still blown away by the scope of it. Of course the court still has to rule, but the outlines - if they remain intact - are stunning in [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on November 4th, 2008 under Books, Commercialization, Google, Technology Issues.
Comments: 4