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You Can’t Do That with a Kindle: Library Builds Record-Breaking Domino Chain from Old Books
To promote its summer reading program, the Seattle Public Library did what any enterprising library would do: take a bunch of old books, set them up like dominoes and knock them over.
How Libraries Are Reinventing Themselves for the Future
Many branches of these public institutions are dying from lack of funding—and reinventing themselves in surprising new ways.
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SXSW: The Fate of Libraries
Carson Block, who gave a SXSW Interactive talk on Saturday titled “The Great Library Swindle,” says that he’s passionate about libraries and technology. But he didn’t really need to tell his audience that. The intensity of his …
Digital Library Lending Up 130% in 2011
If you build it, they will come. Not just words of wisdom from a Kevin Costner movie anymore, but the experience of libraries across America. They’ve seen a triple-digit jump in the amount of digital lending during the last year …
How to Borrow Library Books on Your Kindle
Great news for Amazon Kindle owners. E-book downloads are now available from over 11,000 libraries around the country. Borrowed books sport many of the same features that come along with books purchased from Amazon—synching, notes, highlights—but the books must be found via your local library’s website, not through Amazon’s e-book …
Yes, You Can Surf Porn at New York City Libraries
If you’ve always wanted to surf porn fearlessly and in full view of the world, it looks like New York City’s many libraries are happy to let you.
Or if not happy, at least obliged to. Put another way (and to invoke Cole Porter), it seems just about anything goes at the city’s more than 200 library branches.
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Apple Beats Google in the Race to the Music Cloud
In technology’s newest arms race, it appears Apple may have beaten out Google in the dash to the cloud.
According to a new report from Reuters, Apple has finished working on a new iTunes-based music service that would allow users to transfer their music libraries onto remote servers. In addition to freeing up valuable hard drive …
Q: Which Has Shorter Shelf-Life: E-Books or Chocolate Syrup?
A. If the book in question is a library e-book from HarperCollins, you should be putting your money on Hershey’s.
The Library Journal broke the news on Friday that all new e-books licensed from that publisher — which brought us such modern classics as Sarah Palin’s America By Heart and Justin Halpern’s Sh*t My Dad Says — will be …