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		<title>How Libraries Are Reinventing Themselves for the Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ALLISON BERRY</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many branches of these public institutions are dying from lack of funding—and reinventing themselves in surprising new ways.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=137058&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW: The Fate of Libraries</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/03/11/sxsw-the-fate-of-libraries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 interest was very much on display during his talk, which was about the daunting challenges that public libraries face in the age of the Internet and digitization.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=122898&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Library Lending Up 130% in 2011</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/01/19/digital-library-lending-up-130-in-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 due, in part, to the increased use of tablet devices such as the iPad, Kindle, and Nook.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=115209&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Borrow Library Books on Your Kindle</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/21/how-to-borrow-library-books-on-your-kindle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s website, not through Amazon&#8217;s e-book store. Amazon&#8217;s simple instructions: &#8220;To start checking out Kindle library books, visit your local library&#8217;s website.&#8221; Great idea, except some library websites aren&#8217;t exactly case studies in interface design. I, myself, popped over to the Boston Public Library website to see what was available and couldn&#8217;t find any mention whatsoever of Kindle books at first glance. (LIST: All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books) So I searched for &#8220;Kindle&#8221; in the search box. Again, nothing. Then I hovered over &#8220;bpl catalogs&#8221; in the navigation bar and chose &#8220;Electronic Books.&#8221; Getting warmer! Under the &#8220;eBooks&#8221; section, we&#8217;ve got six different e-book catalogs. I remember Amazon mentioning that it uses the OverDrive system for book lending, which I found as one of the six catalog choices. If you&#8217;re looking for e-books to load up on your Kindle, a far easier step is to just go to the OverDrive website and enter your zip code right there on the main page. Then choose your closest library and it&#8217;ll kick you off to your branch&#8217;s respective OverDrive catalog where you can start borrowing. My branch currently shows 5,364 titles available for borrowing, though the number of available copies for each book is limited. Another tip: If you know the exact title of your book, put it in quotes when using OverDrive&#8217;s search box. My test search for &#8220;Eat, Pray, Love&#8221; without quotes turned up 132 books. Using quotes, I got just the one actual book. Unsurprisingly, you&#8217;ll also have to have a library card number, so check with your branch to see if you can sign up for one online. Kindle books can then generally be borrowed for 14 days. Find the one you want, input your library card number, and you&#8217;ll be whisked off to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=97827&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Gaming &amp; Culture</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/apps-web/gaming-%c2%a0culture/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Yes, You Can Surf Porn at New York City Libraries</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/25/yes-you-can-surf-porn-at-new-york-city-libraries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. Public libraries that receive federal funds are required to filter illegal obscenity and child pornography on Internet-connected computers, but that&#8217;s it. If the porn in question is legal&#8211;meaning in essence &#8220;by consenting adults, for consenting adults&#8221;&#8211;it’s free speech, protected by First Amendment rights, says New York City library officials. The New York Post broke the story, putting Brooklyn Public Library spokesperson Malika Granville on the record as saying: “Customers can watch whatever they want on the computer.” Whatever they want, whenever they want, wherever they want&#8211;including right next to you, since Internet-accessible terminals in libraries tend to be clustered. The only viewing area divisions are privacy “extensions” (in this case provided by the libraries) that block a screen from sidewise viewing. Not that you still won’t have to listen, if the guy so engaged (and you know it’ll be mostly guys) isn’t wearing headphones set to discreet decibel levels. Last summer, while working at the public library in my wife&#8217;s hometown (hey, they had fast Internet) I noticed a guy surfing porn on a public terminal, oblivious to the world as he clicked through image after image. That in itself wasn&#8217;t startling. Here&#8217;s what was: The elementary school children sitting next to him at other terminals. That, and the group of preschoolers gathered across the room for a reading group. I guess the question is, if public nudity (or public sex) is considered &#8220;indecent exposure&#8221; (as opposed, you know, to &#8220;free speech&#8221;) and therefore illegal, then what&#8217;s the difference between actual nudity or public sex, and viewed-in-public images or videos thereof?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=78824&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Beats Google in the Race to the Music Cloud</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/22/apple-beats-google-in-the-race-to-the-music-cloud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In technology&#8217;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 space, listeners should theoretically be able to tap into their remote music locker from any place with Internet access and with a number of devices. Though an Apple spokesperson declined to comment, and if Apple is in fact able to launch their cloud servers first, then this should come as a glancing blow to Google, who already has cloud based storage services in place like Google Docs. But impeding the companies&#8217; progress are a number of copyright hurdles that must be cleared with major record labels. Amazon, as the first to launch a cloud-based music service, came under fire from the music industry with threats of legal action for not having the proper licensing mechanisms in place. Though agreements with the labels seems to be proceeding, the future of Amazon&#8217;s music cloud is still unclear. If Apple&#8217;s music strategy plays out the way the report is indicating, having first-mover advantage with online libraries is big. I doubt that any of the companies — whether it be Apple, Google, or Amazon — will make it easy for users to reallocate their song libraries once they&#8217;re in place. Apple clearly has the advantage with its iTunes infrastructure, and if it does indeed make it to the cloud first, Google may have to reassess their online music strategy, which is already hazy to begin with. More on TIME.com: How to Stream Music at Parties Lady Gaga Partners with Zynga for&#8230; GagaVille? Breaking News: Mac and PC Users Like Different Things!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=78416&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q: Which Has Shorter Shelf-Life: E-Books or Chocolate Syrup?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/02/28/q-which-has-shorter-shelf-life-e-books-or-chocolate-syrup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A. If the book in question is a library e-book from HarperCollins, you should be putting your money on Hershey&#8217;s. The Library Journal broke the news on Friday that all new e-books licensed from that publisher &#8212; which brought us such modern classics as Sarah Palin’s America By Heart and Justin Halpern’s Sh*t My Dad Says &#8212; will be good for 26 checkouts before the license expires. Part of their logic is that 26 boomerangs is the equivalent of about one year for popular titles, assuming the average checkout time is two weeks per bookworm. (Chocolate syrup, meanwhile, will stay good in your pantry for almost twice that long.) Many bookworms, however, aren’t pleased by this policy, and some are even trying to organize boycotts of the publisher until limits are removed completely. At first glance, that kind of knee-jerk reaction seems par for the course in our age of digital entitlement, with many holding tight to the sentiment that creative works, copyrighted or no, should be free and unabridged. But this case is a little different, of course, given that we’re talking about institutions that make a habit of giving things away for free. And libraries already have in place some protective policies for publishers, such as limiting checkouts of e-books to one person at a time. That said, the policy-makers at HarperCollins shouldn’t be tarred as completely unreasonable hoarders of words. Tangible books have a limited bookshelf lifespan &#8212; even if it would almost always be much longer than a year &#8212; so it seems fair that electronic titles would have some replacement potential, too. This rule would only apply to new titles, meaning anything out there now will stay out there indefinitely. And there are other publishers who refuse to dabble in the e-lending game at all. Like all other media going digital, the transition for books is an awkward convergence of demands for business and pleasure. And while some are calling this policy an example of corporate selfishness, others are viewing it as a nice bit<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=68281&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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