E-books: Libraries

Buildings & Services

• physical libraries must evolve to survive, e.g.,
• preserving physical books: Internet Archive
• community meeting spaces, services, labs
• Library Web sites see boost in mobile traffic twice as much in 2012 as 2009; 12/31/2012
• Room for Debate: Do We Still Need Libraries? discussion: Failing to Close the ?Digital Divide?; More Relevant Than Ever; It?s Not Just Story Time and Bookmobiles; For Gathering and for Solitude; 12/27/2012
• Libraries See Opening as Bookstores Close best sellers; e-books; tech training; group space; used book sales; 12/27/2012
• New York Public Library Shifts Plan for 5th Ave. Building $8M physical expansion; 9/19/2012
• Create a Searchable Catalog of Your Bookshelf by Snapping a Picture into Evernote 8/23/2012
• E-books and the Personal Library moving; culling; bookshelves; 8/20/2012
• Re-Inventing Public Libraries For The Digital Age build digital infrastructure, preserve traditional library values; acquisitions to grants; 5/3/2012
• Belgian rightsholders group wants to charge libraries for reading books to kids 3/13/2012
• Why Digital Texts Need A New Library Of Alexandria -- With Physical Books (Internet Archive); 3/5/2012
• In a Flood Tide of Digital Data, an Ark Full of Books (Internet Archive); 3/4/2012
• Libraries Make Room For High-Tech 'Hackerspaces' 12/10/2011
• Louder libraries for a digital age to open across U.S. 11/23/2011
• Are Maker Spaces the Future of Public Libraries? (Fab Lab, 3D Printer); 11/21/2011
• His Libraries, 12,000 So Far, Change Lives (John Wood; undeveloped countries); 11/6/2011
• Wisconsin Library Now Lending Out iPads 9/23/2011
• Internet archivist seeks 1 of every book written 8/1/2011
• The Internet Archive, Now Preserving Printed Books As Well 6/7/2011
• Robots, Not Humans, Retrieve Your Books at $81 Million ?Library of the Future? [video; 2:36]; 5/24/2011
• The future of the library (more than a warehouse for dead books; librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher and impresario); 5/16/2011
• California Library Plan: Get Rid of Books, Replace Librarians With Videophones (Newport Beach community center); 4/1/2011