A library on your block?

This is a cool idea!

Little Free Library can help put a library on your corner »

I happened upon this mini-library in my neighborhood and am so impressed with the movement that Little Free Library has started that I am getting one together for our street. The concept is simple: pu...

Arc d' Libris

Not a recommended shelving method!

nabokovsnotebook: Aspen Mays went to every... »

nabokovsnotebook: “ Aspen Mays went to every college and university library in Illinois and cleared the shelves of Einstein books (1500+). Then she made them into chair-rainbows. Something tells me......

Google vs. Bing

Google is heading towards a semantic search and Bing towards a social search.... interesting....

Anyone can use the new Bing now. Here’s how to get it »

Last week Bing announced a massive product redesign, dramatically changing its interface, and promising a slew of new features that would help it drive growth and differentiate from ...

A larger iPhone...

As a bespectacled librarian, I applaud the idea of a slightly larger screen. I need a magnifying glass for some displays on my iPhone!

TechCrunch | It’s Time For A Larger iPhone »

The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that Apple is currently ordering larger screens for the next iPhone. With the usual nonsense, the WSJ cited people familiar with the matter and stated the...

Proquest is getting into the direct to consumer game with Udini.

Thoughtful post below about implications for librarians...

Frequently Questioned Answers: Not-quite-open library access for Open Education »

One of the big problems for the Open Education Movement has been the lack of access to scholarly resources, such as the scholarly journals that libraries subscribe to individually or as part of articl...

Online classes moving backward to print?

Vickie Kline

10:53 AM  -  Public via Google+

Online classes moving backward to print?

This is one permutation I didn't expect!

At Yale, Online Lectures Become Lively Books - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education »

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and other institutions are old hands now at taking course material from the classroom and lab and putting it online for learners anywher...

A call to revise copyright for out-of-print/orphan works.

Vickie Kline

2:11 PM  -  

+1'd on www.latimes.com

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A universal digital library is within reach »

Since 2002, at first in secret and later with great fanfare, Google has been working to create a digital collection of all the world's books, a library that it hopes will last forever and make knowl...