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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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- Some news from LibraryLand | not so quiet { [...] this opinion piece, David Rothman makes a case for folks in the Warren Buffet and Bill Gates income bracket to support [...] }
- 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... }
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FAQ on National Digital Library endowment plan going online this weekend: Be a part of it
Update, April 18, 2013: The FAQ is here. Feedback still welcome! Librarians and others can help build a National Digital Library Endowment FAQ—with questions, suggested answers and other ideas. Just email. Yes, I know: If you’re a typical librarian, for example, you’re busy enough with your regular work But this is an invitation to those [...]
Kindle Fire HDs apparently can’t change line spacing—and it appears that old Fires for now won’t be upgraded for text to speech
Kindle Fire HD tablets apparently can’t change line spacing when you’re reading an e-book. Is this part of a consumer-hostile niching initiative by Amazon to high-pressure my fellow Kindle addicts into buying more than one gizmo? Yes, I suspect—if we consider similar disappointments, such as the omission of sound in the Paperwhite E Ink reader [...]
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Also tagged Amazon, blind, blind people, disabilities, disabled, e-book, e-books, ebook, ebooks, Jeff Bezos, Kindle, Kindle Keyboard, Len Edgerly, Paperwhite
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An e-smart family literacy approach for Rockford, Illinois? Back to the future?
Could children be better readers if we went “back to the future,” even in the era of e-books and calls for massive budget calls? I’ll share thoughts. But first let’s hear from Andy Strong, a children’s librarian at the library in Rockford, Illinois, during the 1990s: “When the library cut its hours, it drastically reduced storytime [...]
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Also tagged Andrew Strong, Andy Strong, Digital Public Library of America, DPLA, elementary schools, family literacy, IL, Illinois, k-12, librarians, librarianship, LibraryCity.org, public librarians, public libraries, Register Star, Rockford, Rockford library, Rockford public library, teachers
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Coming: More ideas on mitigating Rockford’s e-book mess and other cities’
Update: The follow-up was Should OverDrive sell itself to America’s public libraries? I’m not done yet. Rockford, Illinois, is a depressing but oh-so-useful example of America’s e-book crisis—and of the risk that it could pit the well-off and the cash-strapped against each other. Later today or tomorrow I’ll offer detailed ideas far beyond yesterday’s. On [...]
Thumbs up on the DPLA beta sprint, just so the group will also open up in other ways, ASAP, such as public meetings of the Steering Committee
John Palfrey, DPLA Steering Committee leader, seeks your ideas The Digital Public Library of America is inviting librarians, programmers and others to come up with mock screenshots, actual coded sites or other demos—as part of a beta sprint program. I love the idea of, “Let’s just start building something.” The DPLA will benefit from the [...]
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 [...]
DPLA steering committee adds local librarians, women, minorities, per LibraryCity recommendations—and here are other friendly suggestions
What’s a “public” library without public librarians? Responding to us—and others—the Digital Public Library of America has added three highly respected public librarians to what was a 14-member steering committee without any local librarians. One of the trio, Carla Hayden, former ALA president as well as CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore [...]
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Also tagged Amy E. Ryan, Amy Ryan, Boston Public Library, Carla Hayden, Danielle Plummer, Digital Public Library of America, DPLA, Enoch Pratt Free Library, John Palfrey, librarians, libraries, local librarians, local libraries, Luis Herrera, Peggy Rudd, San Francisco Public Library
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Don’t let public libraries fade away, Mike—especially the neighborhood branches: That would hurt your publisher clients, not just society in general
Mike Shatzkin, the New York-based publishing guru with the guts to write on the Web what his clients may only whisper, annoyed some public-library boosters with his prediction that publibs would more or less die in the next 15 or so years. I like Mike and want him to speak his mind even when we [...]
DPLA vs. real public libraries? New camels’ noses under the tent? ‘Concept note’ goes beyond ‘digital’
Part I of Historical Society blog interview with DPLA advocate Robert Darnton The Digital Public Library of America is out with a new "concept note,” and, alas, our DPLA friends still don’t grasp the franchise and branding issues of genuine public libraries—cash-strapped and already having their roles chipped away by Amazon, Google, and others. Perhaps [...]
DPLA still clinging to ‘Public’ in name—despite risks to the franchise and branding of America’s public libraries
When is a library truly “public” in the traditional American sense, the one on which thousands of genuinely public libraries have built their branding? Should the Digital Public Library of America protect public libraries’ franchise and branding by dropping the “Public” from the DPLA’s name? Most emphatically. And along the way, the DPLA should reorganize [...]
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We’re about the need for a well-stocked national digital library system for all Americans—not just the elite or those in big cities. This shouldn’t be a partisan issue, given all the benefits for K-12 students and others. None other the late William F. Buckley Jr., the conservative columnist, advocated such a system. And while not [...]
My Chronicle of Higher Education essay: ‘It’s Time for a National Digital-Library System. But it can’t serve only elites’
Update: Gary Price’s INFOdocket post on the Chronicle essay Hello to the Chronicle of Higher Education readers dropping by—in the wake of my essay, It’s time for a National Digital-Library System. But it can’t serve only elites. John Palfrey, head of the steering committee for the valuable Digital Public Library of America initiative at Harvard’s [...]
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