From the Internet, selected by Owl (and, occasionally, me). This Friend Feed group is a continuation of the Librarian's Place blog, from July 2008. See http://librariansplace.wordpress.com for more details.
"After years of library membership declining and fears that the public no longer wanted to borrow books, some institutions are reporting a spike in interest since they started to offer e-books"
- Maxine
from Bookmarklet
Nice. Quote: "My recent Friday night visit to the library showed me that students are spending time in the library as a convenient and quiet place to study or to meet other students for group discussions. This was a very heartwarming revelation for me and made me feel much more positive about the library-visit requirements in my own classes."
- Maxine
from Bookmarklet
Enjoyable techno-personal-historical memoir. Quote: "what has really challenged publishing is Print on Demand, books that are entirely electronic and read on computers, and self-publishing. Also, the shift from physical books stored in warehouses and taxed as property to books as “potential” databases has muddled business models. Now we are in a position to entirely bypass publishers and are dumped into chaos again. "
- Maxine
from Bookmarklet
Enjoyed Sergey Brin in NYT: "real winners are the readers who have access to greatly expanded world of books". He has made a good counter-case I think. The devil will be in the details. http://go.nature.com/DOqqzL
- Maxine
Predictable anger from booksellers, librarians et al. at Hodge (UK "Culture Secretary") suggestions :"libraries are not bookshops". Quite. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books... Guardian
Sara Lloyd (Macmillan) book publishers only inches away from newspaper/music industry. Digital not future but present. http://www.thebookseller.com/news...
Quote: "The papers also include photographs, files of brochures and fliers used in his research, sample dust-jacket designs, and letters from such literary figures as Kurt Vonnegut and Joyce Carol Oates, as well as from fans."
- Maxine
from Bookmarklet
Quote: "Men still outnumber women in science and engineering fields. Would a science-loving "Hannah Montana" type change that?"
- Maxine
from Bookmarklet
Seriously, I'm not kidding, there is a comment at the article that reads: "Pls proof reading the article. spelling and terminolgy errors." Five spelling and grammar errors in that brief comment. (Six if you are a pedant and think that proof-read requires a hyphen.)
- Maxine
Seth’s blog » Blog Archive » The Ethical Stupidity of Med School Professors: Plagiarism Very Very Bad, Ghostwriting Okay - http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009...
Quote: "What I care about is if my librarian is helping, in his or her small way, to maintain our culture and our civilization, or whether he or she is acquiescing, in a limp and laughable way, to its degradation."
- Maxine
from Bookmarklet
Sad news. Quote: "“After 14 years of working as the webmaster for The Centaurian site I am, of course, very troubled about this ruptured turn of events, but that does not in the least dim my grateful memory of the long and pleasant collaboration I had with David Lull and Larry Randen, my bibliographic and literary co-webmasters. They were so utterly faithful and supportive over the years with resources and advice that I do not know how adequately to say thank you. The site was uploaded online for the first time on 15 November 1996 when I was teaching at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA."
- Maxine
from Bookmarklet
Thanks, Maxine. Here, saved at the Librarian's Place blog, is Jim Yerkes' account of the beginning of The Centaurian website, which was posted on its tenth anniversary: http://librariansplace.wordpress.com/2006...
- Dave Lull
Quote: "Dave Lull and a few others.. assiduously read and forward articles, reviews, remarks, in his role as a librarian. Somehow he keeps track of what people care about and relays the information. He does it for free."
- Maxine
from Bookmarklet
"Dr. John, the library's first curator of eManuscripts, is working on ways to archive the deluge of computer data swamping scientists so that future generations can authenticate today's discoveries and better understand the people who made them." "It would be tragic if there were no record of lives that were so influential," Dr. John says.
- Maxine
from Bookmarklet
This is the man I was suggesting be invited to talk at Science Online next year.
- Maxine
Quote: "within weeks, the English-language Wikipedia will begin imposing a layer of editorial review on articles about living people"
- Maxine
from Bookmarklet