Are vendors really making what libraries want? A look at the e-book “explosion” and Daniel Walter’s recent comments which provoked a vendor response. Walter’s answer: no. Vendors answer: a not-unsurprising “of course”
hi – 21jun
Hi. Happy Solstice. Today I took a book-truckload of books over to the local senior residential center as part of a monthly Bookshelf program I’ve been trying to get started. 20-30 books, mostly large print, some books with normal type but lots of pictures [art books, gardening books], delivered monthly on a regular schedule. Books on tape coming soon and we take request. I generally get along pretty well with older people, but it was particularly gratifying to have some smiling older woman come right up to me and say “Hey this is a really neat idea, thanks for doing this.” and then walk off with a book of Krazy Kat comics or a Learn To Use Your Computer book.
why all the crap CDs?
Apparently, it was just a computer programming glitch that caused libraries to get weird assortments of CDs [such as 148 copies of “Entertainment Weekly’s Greatest Hits of 1971.”] as part of their settlement from the major record labels. [thanks tammi]
google as giant digital library? not quite.
A sane article on the whole Google vs. The Library thing. There’s some good thinking here, although I would argue that the NYTimes’ paraphrase of the issue as “A few research librarians say Google could eventually take on more of the role of a universal library.” could more accurately be stated — based on their own quotations, as “A few research librarians say Google could eventually take on more of the role of indexing a universal library.” [NYT, randomwalks]
use windows, get hacked, ALA learns the hard way
In other computer glitch news, ALA was brought to its knees by the Korgo.L worm [not technically a virus], another Microsoft security exploit.