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Amazon’s book city #1 avoids cuts in library hours but still might reduce its library book budget—already below the U.S. per-capita average
Update, May 7: The missing $56K for materials was restored in the final version of the budget last night. Kudos to all the library advocates who spoke up! See, it’s worth the time! – D.R. Now it’s definite. Alexandria, VA—honored as Amazon’s “most well-read” city in the U.S. despite ample evidence to the contrary, especially [...]
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?
Update: We won! Library advocates successfully fought cuts in hours and the materials budget. Leaving us in the dark about the source of this tidbit, a Washington Post headline in the Style section blog says: “Alexandria, Virginia: the most well-read city in America.” Similar words show up elsewhere in the media about my hometown, the [...]
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Also tagged Alexandria, Allison Silberberg, Amazon, biased journalism, corporate hype, digal libraries, digital divide, Digital Public Library of America, DPLA, ebooks, librrianship, New York Times, Rashad Young, reading, the most well-read city in America, VA, Virginia, Washington Post
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OverDrive buyout proposal makes LibraryJournal.com: ‘Not such a crazy idea,’ says DPLA’s John Palfrey
Although I’m still gung ho about the Digital Public Library of America, I retain some of the concerns arising in a recent MIT Technology Review article. For example, how can we reconcile the DPLA’s various goals and serve academic and public library patrons, whose needs and interests may differ sharply? One strategy would be for public libraries, [...]
Prominent publishing expert Thad McIlroy intrigued by LibraryCity’s OverDrive proposal: “Time to put the ‘public’ back in ‘Public Libraries’”
“Yes, it’s time to put the ‘public’ back in ‘Public Libraries.” So says Thad McIlroy, a prominent publishing consultant, about LibraryCity’s proposal for OverDrive to sell itself to America’s public libraries directly or to a nonprofit serving their interests. McIlroy has worked for clients ranging from Apple and Adobe to Thompson Learning (now Cengage) and [...]
Should OverDrive sell itself to America’s public libraries? Any foundation angels care to help?
Update: See positive reaction from Thad McIlroy, a prominent publishing consultant. OverDrive—the leading supplier of popular e-books for America’s public libraries—should sell itself to its library customers or at least think about it if they are willing and able to buy. In Rockford, Illinois, a much-needed controversy rages about the local library system’s spending almost [...]
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The nuts and bolts of using tablet computers, e-libraries, and family literacy initiatives to encourage young children to read
My sister the retired schoolteacher came to e-books only late in life, but you’d never know it from her enthusiasm for her iPad as a reading tool. Dorothy can blow up the type, for example. She actually reads faster than before, and, in fact, she hopes to use e-books to help spur her grandchildren to [...]
How e-books and a national digital library system could boost student achievement
America’s K-12 students would benefit handsomely from a well-stocked national digital library system blended in carefully with school libraries and public libraries. And disadvantaged students without books at home might be among the biggest winners. I’ve felt that way since the early 1990s, but now here’s further evidence or at least a very strong hint. [...]