Library of the Future

New bill in Congress would EXPAND federal public access policies!

2012-02-09T15:21:00.000-05:00

from it is NOT junk [blog], by Micheal Eisen, February 9, 2012

As Scholarship Goes Digital, Academics Seek New Ways to Measure Their Impact

2012-02-01T09:13:00.000-05:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Jennifer Howard, February 1, 2012

As Journal Boycott Grows, Elsevier Defends Its Practices

2012-02-01T09:12:00.002-05:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Josh Fischman, February 1, 2012

As scholars undertake a great migration to online publishing, altmetrics stands to provide an academic measurement of twitter and other online activity

2012-02-01T09:11:00.000-05:00

from The London School of Economics and Political Science [Blog], by Jason Priem, November 21, 2011

Research Bought, Then Paid For

2012-01-11T09:42:00.001-05:00

from the New York Times, by Micheal Eisen, January 10, 2012

H.R.3699 -- Research Works Act

2012-01-10T14:29:00.001-05:00

from 112th CONGRESS, 1st Session, H. R. 3699, Sponsor: Rep Issa, Darrell E. [CA-49]

Elsevier-funded NY Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney Wants to Deny Americans Access to Taxpayer Funded Research

2012-01-10T14:18:00.001-05:00

from it is NOT junk [blog] by Micheal Eisen, January 5, 2012

Independent Bookstores Are Not Doomed: Here’s how they can fight back against Amazon

2011-12-22T10:28:00.001-05:00

from Slate, by Farhad Manjoo, December 21, 2011

Making Science Leap From the Page

2011-12-20T15:22:00.000-05:00

from the New York Times, by Anne Eisenberg, December 17, 2011

Far from killing off the book, the digital age is proving a boon to innovative publishers and authors

2011-12-19T12:44:00.000-05:00

from the Guardian (UK), by William Skidelsky, December 17, 2011

The 25 Most Beautiful College Libraries in the World

2011-12-15T10:19:00.001-05:00

from Flavorwire, by Emily Temple, December 13, 2011

Amazon’s Jungle Logic

2011-12-14T08:14:00.001-05:00

from the New York Times, by Richard Russo, December 12, 2011

British Library Group Sticks With Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell

2011-12-02T09:05:00.002-05:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Jennifer Howard, December 1, 2011

Cambridge U. Press Would Like to Rent You an Article

2011-12-01T08:02:00.000-05:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Jennifer Howard, November 30, 2011

Do you own your library?

2011-11-30T07:57:00.000-05:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Brian Mathews, November 29, 2011

Amazon's Kindle lending library is contract breach, say US authors

2011-11-17T09:38:00.000-05:00

from The Guardian (UK), by Alison Flood, November 16, 2011

The Origins of Empathy—in Mice?

2011-11-17T08:17:00.000-05:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Josh Fischman, November 16, 2011

In the 21st-Century University, Let's Ban (Paper) Books

2011-11-17T08:15:00.000-05:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Marc Prensky, November 13, 2011

Why Writers Should Embrace Amazon’s Takeover of the Publishing Industry

2011-10-20T10:29:00.000-04:00

from the New Republic, by Ruth Franklin, October 19, 2011

Princeton University Faculty Commit to Open Access

2011-10-06T13:52:00.000-04:00

from Information Today, Inc, by Barbara Quint, October 6, 2011

Citation by Citation, New Maps Chart Hot Research and Scholarship's Hidden Terrain

2011-09-14T07:45:00.003-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Jennifer Howard, September 11, 2011

Why Read Book Reviews?

2011-09-09T07:50:00.000-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Jeffery Wasserstrom, September 4, 2011

Just don’t call it a [Library] Commons: building the learning boutique model

2011-09-08T08:18:00.001-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Brian Mathews, September 7, 2011

JSTOR Opens Up U.S. Journal Content From Before 1923

2011-09-08T08:16:00.000-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Jennifer Howard, September 7, 2011

A bleak forecast for books, and other literary humiliations

2011-09-02T08:49:00.000-04:00

from the Toronto Globe and Mail (Canada), by Russell Smith, August 31, 2011

'No, we shouldn’t just Google it': John Walsh laments the death of the reference book

2011-09-02T08:45:00.001-04:00

from The Independent (UK), by John Walsh, August 1, 2011

Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist

2011-09-01T08:04:00.000-04:00

from the Guardian (UK), by George Monbiot, August 29, 2011

University of California Libraries Expand Access to Orphan Works

2011-08-29T14:23:00.000-04:00

from the Weekly News Digest, August 29, 2011

Accessibility vs. access: How the rhetoric of “rare” is changing in the age of information abundance

2011-08-29T08:26:00.000-04:00

from the Nieman Journalism Lab, by Maria Popova, August 23, 2011

The Common Sense of the Fair-Use Doctrine

2011-08-24T20:28:00.000-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Patricia Aufderheide, August 21, 2011

Apple, Publishers Conspired Against $9.99 Amazon E-books: Lawsuit

2011-08-12T14:01:00.000-04:00

from Wired, by Matthew Laser, August 10, 2011

Open Access Coalition Formed by 22 Academic Institutions

2011-08-12T07:50:00.001-04:00

from Library Journal, By David Rapp, Aug 8, 2011

The First Free Research-Sharing Site, arXiv, Turns 20 With an Uncertain Future

2011-08-11T07:56:00.002-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, By Josh Fischman, August 10, 2011

Publishing Gives Hints of Revival [BookStats survey data shows publishing expanding since 2008]

2011-08-10T08:59:00.002-04:00

from the New York Times, by Julie Bosman, August 9, 2011

Search: How Libraries Do it Wrong

2011-08-04T09:18:00.000-04:00

from Inside Higher Education, by Barbara Fister, August 2, 2011

Internet archivist seeks one of every book written [Brewster Kahle]

2011-08-03T08:24:00.001-04:00

from the Seattle Times, By Marcus Wohlsen, August 3, 2011

How Google Dominates Us

2011-08-01T20:29:00.000-04:00

from the New York Review of Books, by James Gleick, August 18, 2011

British Research Libraries Draw Line in Sand Over Journal Pricing

2011-07-29T08:04:00.000-04:00

from Library Journal, By Michael Kelley Jul 28, 2011

Wolfram Launches PDF Killer: new digital format makes static documents interactive

2011-07-28T12:09:00.002-04:00

from Library Journal, By Kathy Ishizuka July 21, 2011

A High-Tech Library Keeps Books at Faculty Fingertips—With Robot Help

2011-07-28T08:15:00.000-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Marc Parry, July 24, 2011

Paperback Publishers Quicken Their Pace

2011-07-27T08:43:00.000-04:00

from the New York Times, by Julie Bosman, July 26, 2011

Is Electronic Music 'Real Music?'

2011-07-26T12:42:00.001-04:00

from Discovery News, by Robert Lamb, July 25, 2011

What’s a book? It’s whatever you want it to be

2011-07-26T11:27:00.000-04:00

from Gigaom, by Mathew Ingram, July 22, 2011

On Mistakenly Shredding a Prized [Library] Collection

2011-07-26T10:35:00.001-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Carla Tracy, July 25, 2011

British Research Libraries Say No to ‘Big Deal’ Serials Packages

2011-07-25T08:06:00.000-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Jennifer Howard, July 22, 2011

Academic Work Should Be Distributed For Free

2011-07-21T07:59:00.000-04:00

from ThinkProgress, By Matthew Yglesias, Jul 20, 2011

Amazon Announces Digital-Textbook Rentals

2011-07-21T07:56:00.001-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, By Jie Jenny Zou, July 20, 2011

Books and Other Fetish Objects

2011-07-19T14:43:00.000-04:00

from the New York Times, by James Gleick, July 16, 2011

Revised European-Journal Ratings Provoke Rankings Anxiety Again

2011-07-14T08:25:00.000-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Rachel Wiseman, July 13, 2011

[Peter] Suber: Leader of a Leaderless Revolution [Interview]

2011-07-08T11:47:00.001-04:00

from Information Today, by Richard Poynder, July/August 2011

"I've stopped reading fiction" A literary icon, like many older readers, has turned away from made-up stories. Why?

2011-06-30T10:33:00.000-04:00

from Slate, by Laura Miller, June 28, 2011

As Mobile Devices Multiply, Some Colleges Turn Away From Building Campus Apps

2011-06-28T11:17:00.002-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Josh Keller, June 27, 1011

Ebooks: the latest frontier for spam

2011-06-24T15:02:00.000-04:00

from the Guardian (UK), by Mike Essex, June 23, 2011

Publishers Say They Are Not the Enemy in University Copyright Disputes

2011-06-23T07:54:00.000-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Jennifer Howard, June 19, 2011

Darwin Library, Now Online, Reveals Mind of 19th-Century Naturalist

2011-06-23T07:52:00.000-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Jie Jenny Zou, June 22, 2011

What Big Media Can Learn From the New York Public Library

2011-06-21T08:06:00.000-04:00

from The Atlantic, by Alexis Madrigal, June 20, 2011

Bubble Trouble Is Web personalization turning us into solipsistic twits?

2011-06-17T18:16:00.002-04:00

from Slate, By Jacob Weisberg, June 10, 2011

New York Public Library Buys Timothy Leary’s Papers

2011-06-17T18:01:00.000-04:00

from the New York Time, by Patricia Cohen, June 15, 2011

Research Libraries, Publishers Stake Out Positions on International ILL

2011-06-17T17:58:00.002-04:00

from Library Journal, by Michael Kelley, June 14, 2011

The Internet Archive's Physical Archive: A New Project Playground?

2011-06-17T17:55:00.000-04:00

from Library Journal, by David Rapp, June 16, 2011

Unlocking HathiTrust: Inside the Librarians' Digital Library

2011-06-10T14:26:00.000-04:00

from Library Journal, by Char Booth, June 9, 2011

British Library launch classic book reading app

2011-06-10T08:29:00.001-04:00

from BBC News (UK), June 7, 2011

5 Reasons Why E-Books Aren’t There Yet

2011-06-06T08:14:00.000-04:00

from Wired, by John C, Abell, June 3, 2011

Five Things That University Presses Should Know About Working With Libraries

2011-06-02T13:31:00.000-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, By Leila W. Salisbury, May 29, 2011

Pushing Back Against Legal Threats by Putting Fair Use Forward

2011-05-31T08:14:00.000-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, Jeffrey R. Young, May 29, 2011

Out of Fear, Colleges Lock Books and Images Away From Scholars

2011-05-31T07:58:00.000-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Marc Parry, May 29, 2011

Are book apps the next chapter for ebooks?

2011-05-27T09:19:00.000-04:00

from The Telegraph [UK], by Shane Richmond, May 26, 2011

Textbooks Go the iTunes Route, but Buying by Chapters Might Not Save Students Money

2011-05-27T07:49:00.000-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Ben Wieder, May 22, 2011

E-Business Is the Buzz at Book Fair

2011-05-26T11:11:00.000-04:00

from the New York Times, by Julie Bosman, May 22, 2100

Book Drop [Claremont College Library plans to weed 30,000 books]

2011-05-26T08:59:00.001-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Ronald Macaulay, May 22, 2011

[Ninth] Design Institute Explores Changing Place of Libraries

2011-05-23T10:29:00.001-04:00

from Library Journal, by Michael Kelley, May 17, 2011

Oprah's Book Club: She spoke, we read

2011-05-23T08:25:00.000-04:00

from the LA Times, Carolyn Kellogg, May 22, 2011

The Stockholm Syndrome Theory of Long Novels

2011-05-23T08:23:00.000-04:00

from The Millions, by Mark OConnell, May 16, 2011

Literacy in the Digital Age: Part III

2011-05-23T08:20:00.000-04:00

from Inside Higher Ed, by Tracy Mitrano, May 20, 2011

The Novel Is Not Dead Despite Critics’ Best Attempt

2011-05-23T08:14:00.000-04:00

from the Boston Review, by Jess Row, May/June 2011

Don’t discard the librarians

2011-05-23T08:12:00.000-04:00

from the [Toronto] Globe and Mail, by Ian Brown, May 20, 2011

As Books Disappear

2011-05-23T08:07:00.000-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Nigel Thrift, May 20, 2011

Philip Roth wins the Man Booker International Prize

2011-05-19T08:01:00.000-04:00

from the BBC News [UK], May 18, 2011

Serendipity in the Archive

2011-05-19T07:52:00.000-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Nancy Lusignan Schultz, May 15, 2011

Robots Retrieve Books in University of Chicago’s New, Futuristic Library

2011-05-18T08:14:00.000-04:00

from Wired, by Angela Watercutter, May 11, 2011

Romancing the tablet: How Harlequin is revolutionizing the e-book market

2011-05-16T08:08:00.001-04:00

from the Toronto Globe and Mail, by John Barber, May 14, 2011

3-D Art for All: Ready to Print

2011-05-16T08:05:00.000-04:00

from the New York Times,by Melena Ryzik, May 13, 2011

Librarians Puzzle Over E-Books They May Buy but Not Truly Own

2011-05-16T07:57:00.002-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Jennifer Howard, May 15, 2011

Controversial Journal Rankings in Australia Affect Research Funds and Careers

2011-05-11T08:30:00.000-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Jennifer Howard, May 8, 2011

National Jukebox: Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress

2011-05-11T08:13:00.001-04:00

Visit the National Jukebox at the Library of Congress which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge.

Tomorrow's Academic Libraries: Maybe Even Some Books

2011-05-11T08:10:00.000-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Jennifer Howard, May 8, 2011

ArXiv [physics research preprint repository] Seeking Funds for Second Year of Collaborative Support Model

2011-05-10T10:17:00.000-04:00

from Library Journal, by Josh Hadro May 5, 2011

What Defines a Meme? Our world is a place where information can behave like human genes and ideas can replicate, mutate and evolve

2011-05-03T08:04:00.000-04:00

from the Smithsonian, by James Gleick, May 2011

The Secret Life of Libraries

2011-05-02T09:35:00.001-04:00

from The Guardian (UK), by Bella Bathurst, May 1, 2011

Gore, Ex-Apple Engineers Team Up to Blow Up the Book

2011-04-29T08:27:00.001-04:00

from Wired, by Brian X. Chen, April 28, 2011

Video-Game Rooms Become the Newest Library Space Invaders

2011-04-29T08:00:00.000-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Ben Wieder, April 29, 2011

Understanding Consumer Search Results [Content Farms create Web content to drive Web traffic]

2011-04-28T10:02:00.001-04:00

from Information Outlook, by Stephen Abram, Jan/Feb 2011

Farewell, Kindle. Buh-Bye, iPad: the future of campus mobile computing

2011-04-28T07:53:00.001-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Marc Bousquet, April 27, 2011

E-book piracy may have unexpected benefits for publishers

2011-04-26T10:19:00.000-04:00

from CBC News, by Dan Misener, April 19, 2011

Literary Journals Thrive, on Paper and Otherwise

2011-04-11T08:30:00.000-04:00

from the New York Times, by Reyhan Harmanci, April 7, 2011

Md. firm to take over 3 Calif. libraries as debate grows over privatization

2011-04-08T14:17:00.000-04:00

from the Washington Post, By Michael A. Fletcher, March 31, 2011

Could an online booksharing scheme spell the end for the traditional library?

2011-04-07T08:05:00.001-04:00

from the Guardian.co.uk, by Anita Pati, April 3, 2011

The Road From Dissertation to Book Has a New Pothole: the Internet: Libraries' digital open-access rules make some editors wary of buying graduate students' work.

2011-04-07T07:51:00.001-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Jennifer Howard, April 3, 2011

Ruling Spurs Effort to Form Digital Public Library: Is the tantalizing dream of a universal library dead?

2011-04-06T09:23:00.001-04:00

from the New York Times, by Miguel Helft, April 3, 2011

Recent Scholarship about Open Access Publishing- Do you pursue open access venues for publication?

2011-04-06T09:05:00.000-04:00

from the Chronicle of Higher Education, by Jason B. Jones, April 4, 2011