Conference Under Way, ALA President Praises New Penguin Ebook Pilot With NYC...
As the American Library Association’s annual conference got under way today in Anaheim, ALA President Molly Raphael praised the decision by Penguin Group USA to re-enter the library ebook lending...
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Pew: Patrons Still Don’t Know Libraries Have Ebooks | ALA Annual 2012
Of Americans aged 16 and over, only 2 percent have borrowed an ebook from a library in the past year, The Pew Internet Project announced today at the American Library Association conference in Anaheim,...
View ArticleBibliotheca Says Solution to Library Ebook Frustrations Has to Be National |...
Jordana Vincent was one of the librarians honored Friday in Anaheim at Library Journal’s Movers & Shakers banquet. Her work in developing the innovative ebook lending model at Douglas County...
View ArticleALA Contemplating a Seal of Approval for Ebook Business Models | ALA Annual 2012
The American Library Association’s Digital Content & Libraries Working Group has had a busy year, and it is now halfway through its two-year mission to help guide ALA in its response to all the...
View ArticleGoogle Debuts New Service for Libraries at ALA Conference | ALA Annual 2012
(Please see comment section below for correction to this story. The headline and the first paragraph have been edited to reflect this information.) Aisle 300 of the exhibits hall at the Anaheim...
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The Ebook Elephant in the Room | ALA Annual 2012
Ann Silvers Lee. Photo: Dave Feiling Photography For ebooks, “true collection development is going to have to wait…until we have more access, if not all access to everything that’s being published,”...
View ArticleInternet Archive’s Peter Brantley Urges Librarians to More Actively Reshape...
The Internet Archive’s Peter Brantley made a cogent and precise presentation at the American Library Association conference this week that urged the librarian community to do a better job of shaping...
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LITA Talks Top Tech Trends | ALA Annual 2012
Web developers should prioritize mobile websites over desktop websites, librarians need to design more relevant instructional materials for their users, and the field of experience-based...
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Librarians, School and Public, Tap the Best in Kids’ Apps | ALA Annual 2012
What makes a great app? For one, “the graphics need to be awesome,” says Amy Graves, children’s librarian at Manchester (NH) City Library, “because it’s competing with the picture book [the child]...
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ISTE 2012 | ALA Annual: Candid Thoughts on Change, the FCC Digital Literacy...
Advocating on behalf of its members is a priority for ISTE (the International Society of Technology in Education). But in a rapidly changing landscape overshadowed by a continually contracting...
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