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- Amazon’s book city #1, Alexandria, VA, may cut library hours: Time for a digital-era national endowment to help ease U.S. libraries’ financial woes? | The Travelin' Librarian { [...] Read the full article @ LibraryCity.org. [...] }
- Promising DPLA debut—but please don’t confuse special-collection items, exhibits and APIs with a full-fledged ‘public library’ demo | The Travelin' Librarian { [...] Read the full article @ librarycity.org. [...] }
- Tom Peters { Excellent review of the nascent D(P)LA e-resource. I agree with all your major points. Tis a pity that the usual suspects (Twain, Fitzgerald, Cather, et... } – Apr 19, 11:28 AM
- Online la Digital Public Library of America, che vuole superare Google e Wikipedia | Tropico del Libro { [...] di questo ambizioso progetto. Non sono mancate, in questo senso, le polemiche di chi ha vivamente esortato i creatori della DPLA a preoccuparsi anche... }
- David Rothman { Thanks for such a prompt and classy reply, Dan---you're indeed giving #dpla its due! I truly truly hope that the DPLA succeeds, and meanwhile the... } – Mar 31, 11:58 AM
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- Bibliotecas públicas sin libros en EE.UU. ¿A la de tres? | Bibliotecas 2029 { [...] comunicada, tuvo una contestación pública demoledora. No sólo los profesionales de todo el país se escandalizaron por este proyecto sino que los propios usuarios... }
- A National Digital Library Endowment { [...] An interesting concept from blogger David Rothman, founder of TeleRead. He suggests that those who have signed The Giving Pledge (though he doesn’t mention... }
- David Rothman { Hi, Robert. Some quick replies… 1. I envision a variety of business models in use, but if nothing else, libraries could buy multiple e-copies (or... } – Feb 20, 2:05 PM
- Robert Nagle { Generally, a great proposal, but here are some practical issues which pop up in my mind. First, if everything is centralized, when I put a... } – Feb 20, 12:56 PM
- ATG Article of the Week: Need Library E-Books to Feed Your New Gadget? Here’s the Answer | Against-the-Grain.com { [...] Need Library E-Books to Feed Your New Gadget? Here’s the Answer, is an thought provoking article by David Rothman posted in TeleRead a few... }
- Reading about eReading this week 2/18/2013 « Allegany County Library System Director's Notes { [...] A national digital library endowment: How America’s billionaires could be modern Carnegies for rea... [...] }
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- David Rothman { You're welcome, Anthony. Keep us posted if you can Amy-ize your new Fire without installing a full-strength version of Android. David } – Jan 19, 5:46 PM
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Archive for the Category: LibraryCity history
Friends of Quinn and LD OnLine: Two good Web sites illustrate need for separate national digital library systems—public and academic
Two good Web sites on learning disabilities show the need for separate but tightly intertwined national digital library systems. One system public, one academic. Neither site is a library’s. Friends of Quinn is a grassroots nonprofit featuring Quinn Bradlee, son of Sally Quinn and Ben Bradlee—the legendary society columnist and the Watergate editor. LD OnLine [...]
LibraryCity co-founder Tom Peters to be Missouri State University’s dean of university libraries
Congratulations to Tom Peters, a veteran academic librarian, consultant, and co-founder of LibraryCity—just appointed dean of university libraries at Missouri State University. He’ll start August 1. Tom (yes, same first and last names as the management guru) is now assistant dean for technology initiatives at Milner Library at Illinois State University. For understandable career reasons, [...]
Why a bestselling writer would be an excellent addition to the steering committee of the Harvard-hosted Digital Public Library of America
Like it or not, a lot more public library patrons care about bestsellers and other commercial books than about academic works. Frustratingly, the Harvard-hosted Digital Public Library of America has no commercial writer or other nonacademic content provider on its 17-member steering committee. Nick Taylor, a prominent member of the Authors Guild, is wondering about [...]
Harry Potter e-books, OverDrive, the DPLA, Amazon, other topics come up in Bibliotech interview with me
The Bibliotech podcast, based in Ontario, has just posted a two-hour audio interview with me on topics ranging from Harry Potter e-books to OverDrive, the Digital Public Library of America, Library Renewal, and Amazon. Many thanks to Kayhan B, Erin Anderson and Doug Mirams for all the time they put into their super-thoughtful questions. I [...]
Also posted in ALA, LibraryCity, National Digital Public Library Tagged Amazon, Amazon-OverDrive, Amazon-OverDrive deal, Buffy J. Hamilton, David Lee King, Digital Public Library of America, Doug Mirams, DPLA, Erin Anderson, Jan Dawson, Kayhan B, Library Renewal, Lisa Carlucci Thomas, Marshall Breeding, Michael Porter, Michael Stephens, OverDrive, Paul Biba, Sarah Houghton, Stephen Abram, Sue Polana
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Low-income people vs. e-books? Illinois controversy shows why the Harvard-based e-library initiative must not downplay nonelite’s needs
Welcome, Rockford visitors! Also check out Novel helped young thief turn into judge. – D.R. The e-book debate in Rockford, Illinois, was bound to happen somewhere. And, as a way of spotlighting the need for a national digital library system for all Americans, not just the affluent, I’m glad it did. The local NAACP and [...]
Also posted in eBooks Tagged digital divide, Digital Public Library of America, DPLA, e-book, e-books, IL, Illinois, librarianship, libraries, poverty, Rockford
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Public questions for Digital Public Library of America Chair John Palfrey and other steering committee members: Doesn’t governance matter?
Harvard Law Prof. John Palfrey, chair of the Digital Public Library of America, still has not, to my knowledge, released minutes from the organization’s June 13 steering committee meeting in Washington—closed to the public. The DPLA committee kept me out even though I had been an invited participant in the DPLA’s March workshop at the [...]
Netflix vs. Blockbuster as a lesson for America’s libraries—and why I’m losing faith in the DPLA’s ability to live up to its huge potential
Perhaps someday the Digital “Public” Library of America will puzzle out what it needs to be. I’m hardly the only one saying that, but I have cut the DPLA far more slack than some others have. You won’t see their messages on the DPLA e-mail list, because they’ve more or less stopped caring, especially K-12 [...]
Also posted in eBooks, LibraryCity Tagged Blockbuster, Digital Public Library of America, DPLA, e-book, ebook, librarians, librarianship, libraries, Netflix
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Thanks, Tom!
Tom Peters has had to scale back his involvement in LibraryCity.org because he is snowed under with work-related matters. So his title on our site is now collaborator rather than coordinator. Tom wants to write for LibraryCity.org in the future within the limits of his schedule, and meanwhile he and I are looking for other [...]
A new LibraryCity: The ‘what’ and ‘who’ and how you can help—with your own essays
Update, May 3, 2013: Given the different needs of typical patrons of public and academic libraries, we are now advocating two tightly intertwined but separate systems. The old LibraryCity wanted millions of e-books and other items on the Net—and to make them part of America’s library and school systems. But it ran into a little [...]