A recent Pew Internet study on parents, reading and libraries supports Oliver’s sentiment, showing the library’s traditional purpose – providing free reading material – is…
Category: Libraries
Here’s a fun library project seeking funding via Indogogo:
…you might spare a moment to delve into some of the library-related statistics you can compute within Wolfram|Alpha. We’ve pulled in key statistics from two…
CNN explains how presidential libraries came to be and why you should watch what you say if you meet the president.
Oral history interview with Attilio F. Caporiccio by Caporiccio, Attilio F., 1916-2007 Why is this significant? This is an example of library as publisher, taking…
Three cheers for Miskatonic University! That’s the rallying cry of the La Vista Public Library (NE)’s teen advisory board—who, under the exuberant guidance of youth…
Jeffrey Beall is a metadata librarian at the University of Colorado at Denver, but he’s known online for his popular blog Scholarly Open Access, where…
A Nebraska public library has rejected a request to either remove Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s Batman: The Killing Joke from shelves or move the…
This story is from China. First, I doubt it’s that simple and second, what is the definition of “librarian” in this context? Are we talking…