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Information Today April 2007 Gary Flood |
The London Library: Portrait of a Lady This library is unlike any other library. Because it is self-funding, it can choose which books to buy, how to organize them, and what kind of check out policies to have.  |
The Motley Fool November 4, 2011 Patrick Martin |
Hey, Amazon, Can I Borrow This? The online retailer has launched its lending library and made its prime service more appealing.  |
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Better Late Than Never Staff at a British library say they were surprised and puzzled when they received a book that was 45 years overdue through their mailbox.  |
Mother Jones August 1999 Sue Halpern |
Speaking Volumes When a small town set out to create a library, it took the first step toward building something far more elusive--a community.  |
InternetNews November 7, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft to Scan Brit Books Scanning the collection of the prestigious British Library is a big job - and Microsoft wants to do it.  |
Information Today March 17, 2015 |
TLC Displays Reading Levels in Its ILS Products The Library Corp. added Reading Level Integration to its Library*Solution and Library*Solution for Schools.  |
Information Today February 4, 2013 |
EBSCO Releases eBook Public Library Collection eBook Public Library Collection includes more than 25,000 general reference ebook titles in a variety of subjects and topics including social sciences, language and literature, and science and technology.  |
D-Lib November 2000 Lynne Brindley |
Taking the British Library Forward in the Twenty-first Century It is at this very time of success that the British Library needs to turn to, and accelerate its engagement with, the critical and transformational issues associated with the digital world and the new demands being made by our wide range of users and stakeholders...  |
Information Today June 26, 2014 |
3M Cloud Library App Gets a Makeover 3M Library Systems plans to release a new version of its 3M Cloud Library app for ebook and e-audiobook lending in August 2014.  |
T.H.E. Journal December 2005 Chris Balsano |
School Libraries Go Interactive An Illinois high school library uses online forms to stay in contact with the needs and requests of students and teachers.  |
PC Magazine November 23, 2011 Chloe Albanesius |
Penguin Restores E-Book Access Amidst Amazon Negotiations The Penguin Group said Wednesday that it will restore library lending access to older e-books while it negotiates with Amazon and e-book provider OverDrive on security issues.  |
Information Today August 18, 2008 |
WebJunction Launches New Social Learning Site OCLC announced that WebJunction, the online learning community for librarians and library staff, has launched a new social and learning experience  |
Information Today February 6, 2014 |
3M Cloud Library Launches in Canada and Debuts Automation Tool 3M announced that the 3M Cloud Library ebook lending system from 3M Library Systems is now available in Canada.  |
D-Lib October 2000 John V. Lombardi |
Academic Libraries in a Digital Age Students increasingly see the library as mostly irrelevant, while faculty and librarians of a certain age cling to the security of an authoritative collection and familiar classification systems...  |
Information Today December 19, 2013 |
National Library to Digitize Norway's Books The entire digital collection is available for researchers working on-site at the National Library. The library estimates that it will spend 20-30 years digitizing all titles.  |
Information Today March 12, 2012 |
3M Cloud Library Announces Integration With Polaris ILS The 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service will now be integrated with the Polaris Integrated Library System, allowing patrons at participating libraries to discover both physical and digital collections from wherever they are browsing.  |
Information Today June 25, 2012 |
Penguin Group Launches Library Lending Pilot Program Penguin Group, The New York Public Library, and 3M Library Systems announced a pilot project that will make Penguin eBooks available to patrons of both The New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library.  |
D-Lib February 2006 Erika Dowell |
D-Lib Featured Collection February 2006: The Lilly Library The Lilly Library, like other special collections libraries, is poised between the print and the digital worlds.  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2010 Xihui Zhen |
Overview of Digital Library Development in China The greatest challenges for Chinese national digital library projects are digital resource construction and a design of services provision.  |
Information Today June 27, 2011 Barbara Quint |
The British Library Joins Google Books Google Books continues its march through the national libraries of Europe with the announcement of a deal with the British Library.  |
Information Today December 10, 2013 |
Three Library Associations Shut Down The Communications Group announced the end of its association management division, which manages three national library associations.  |
Information Today October 6, 2011 |
Gale Launches Librareo--Free Web-Based Community for LIS Students Librareo is a free web-based community that supports the future of libraries and librarianship by providing students enrolled in Library and Information Studies programs with free access to the professional resources they'll rely upon following graduation.  |
Information Today November 12, 2015 |
OCLC Research Shares Patron Behavior Study Findings It offers an overview of user-behavior findings for librarians, information scientists, and library and information science students and researchers so they can plan for future user-centered library services.  |
ONLINE November 2000 Mick O'Leary |
Grading the Library Portals The ideal library portal will have the most thorough coverage possible in several areas of the library profession for all types of libraries...  |
Information Today April 15, 2014 Barbie E. Keiser |
National Library Week 2014: Lives Change @ Your Library The United States has celebrated National Library Week during the second week of April (aka School Library Month) since 1958. This year, it's being celebrated April 13-19, with author Judy Blume serving as honorary chair.  |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2011 Marydee Ojala |
Why I Library, and You Should Too As technology changes physical collections to electronic ones, and reshapes the entire notion of what a library is, the noun librarian is becoming even less appropriate for the profession.  |
Searcher April 2012 Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us.  |
Information Today February 2004 Donald T. Hawkins |
A Unique International Experience How would you feel about routinely crossing an international border to go to the library? This is exactly what residents of Derby Line, Vt., and Rock Island, Quebec, must do when they visit the Haskell Library, which serves both communities.  |
D-Lib December 2005 Bonita Wilson |
Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources The Library of Congress Global Gateway provides access to the World Digital Library (WDL) which offers international cultural digital resources available via the Internet worldwide.  |
Information Today April 10, 2014 |
LexisNexis Digital Library Offers ABA Ebooks More than 200 ebooks from the American Bar Association are now available through the LexisNexis Digital Library, a lending and library management platform for legal ebooks on any device.  |
Information Today October 9, 2014 |
3M Cloud Library Partners With NOOK for Library Lending U.S. libraries can purchase GlowLight e-readers directly from Barnes & Noble to loan to their patrons and offer access to 3M Cloud Library titles on the devices.  |
Information Today November 28, 2013 |
OverDrive Launches Streaming Video Service Pilot Patrons of the Los Angeles Public Library can borrow videos from the library's website and view them on any computer, tablet, or mobile device with an internet connection.  |
Information Today June 28, 2012 Katherine Allen |
New European Library Portal Launched The European Library is a new discovery service that provides access to the collections of the national libraries of 46 European countries, plus a growing number of research libraries.  |
Information Today July 7, 2011 Paula J. Hane |
Ebook Developments Were HOT at ALA At the recent American Library Association Annual conference, it's clear that librarians are focused on embracing the expanding digital world and specifically on providing ebooks as part of library services.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2002 James Ghaphery |
My Library at Virginia Commonwealth University: Third Year Evaluation My Library is a personalization tool that allows the library user to consolidate frequently used library resources and services. Since 1998, My Library has been available as a web page to users of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries.  |
Information Today September 4, 2014 |
GPO Designates First Digital-Only FDLP Member Sitting Bull College Library became the first digital-only member of the U.S. Government Printing Office's Federal Depository Library Program.  |
Information Today December 2002 Roger Bilboul |
The Library of Alexandria Reopens This brand-new institution claims an influential, ancient legacy.  |
Information Today September 15, 2015 |
Innovative Lays Out Strategic Goals Innovative released a set of strategic goals for the following areas: library success, employee success, product leadership, and library partnership.  |
Searcher December 2000 |
The Future of the Past: History Sources on the Internet Historians and historical-fiction writers bring history to life through the skillful selection of details from daily life. For researchers of history, the number of Internet resources is increasing rapidly...  |
Information Today October 28, 2014 |
Manuscripts From the Vatican Library Are Free Online The Vatican Library is working on a digitization project that will make its archive of 82,000 ancient manuscripts available to the public for free.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 2002 Mahesh S. Raisinghani |
Wireless Library Aids Student Productivity A wireless network permits a library to give all of its users high-speed access to the Internet as well as to its online resources. Students access the resources using laptops with wireless connections to the Internet and the library's intranet.  |
Search Engine Watch November 22, 2005 Sullivan & Price |
World Digital Library Project Announced, Backed by Library of Congress & Google The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library, a project that's also received its first $3 million in funding from Google.  |
Information Today July 12, 2012 |
`This Week In Libraries' Show Now Available Free in iTunes This Week In Libraries, the first global library internet TV show, is now also available via iTunes as free audio podcasts. This video-based talk show, produced by Shanachie Media, is halfway through its third season.  |
Information Today April 11, 2011 |
Gale Offers Free Access to Resources During National Library Week Gale is offering free access to six online resources for use by any library. Free access runs through National Library Week, from April 10 to April 24, 2011.  |
Salon.com July 5, 2000 Janelle Brown |
The Napster library Does the San Francisco Public Library's plan to lend out e-books portend the death of the publishing industry?  |
Information Today March 13, 2014 |
3M Cloud Library Now Lends Audiobooks Findaway World, which provides content from every major audiobook publisher, delivered 40,000 titles to 3M Cloud Library's debut e-audiobook collection.  |
Information Today January 19, 2009 |
Cleveland Public Library First to Offer EPUB Ebook Downloads Readers at both Cleveland Public Library and CLEVNET member libraries can check out and download EPUB eBooks from the library's download website.  |
Information Today March 13, 2008 |
New York Public Library Unveils Transformation Plan The building will be renovated and two hub libraries will be built in northern Manhattan and Staten Island.  |
Information Today August 29, 2013 |
Researchers Granted Access to Digitized Malay Manuscripts The British Library recently signed an agreement with the National Library Board Singapore so researchers can access the BL's Malay manuscript collection for free online.  |
D-Lib December 2003 Connaway & Lawrence |
Comparing Library Resource Allocations for the Paper and the Digital Library: An Exploratory Study The research reported in this article is an attempt to identify resource allocations for an all-paper library and the all-digital library that provides ejournals, eBooks, electronic maps, and digital audio, video, and images, based on information gathered from a group of research librarians.  |