It turns out that Dave Mixdorff, the director of the South Sioux City Public Library (right here in Nebraska) has decided that a complete boycott of HarperCollins materials is the way to go. Not just for eBooks but also print from all HC imprints. All I can say is “woah!” (I’m also thinking this is the first library to go this far. Anyone know of others?)
Here’s a video from a local (IA) TV station followed by some additional relevant links:
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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