Librarians and library suppliers have expressed concerns that changes to the Public Library Subsidy (PLS) could impact on the availability of government information in libraries. The PLS was originally created in 1924 as a way of helping libraries to purchase government publications such as... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Library users have been staging sit-ins at the Library of Birmingham as it switches to shorter opening hours following council cuts. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors including Susan Hill, Ann Cleeves, Mark Billingham and Peter James have been longlisted for the CWA 2015 Dagger in the Library award. The prize is give for an author’s whole body of work to date, rather than a single title. The longlist for the award, which is sponsored by Penguin... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
President Barack Obama announced a new program on Thursday aimed at delivering access for more than 10,000 ebooks to financially strapped schoolchildren throughout the United States. The $250 million program will feature titles from numerous publish... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Classroom Library Company has been awarded a nearly $9 million contract with the New York City Department of Education’s Core Curriculum program for its 2015-2016 Classroom Libraries. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Library campaigners in Lincolnshire are continuing their fight against council cuts, submitting new evidence to the secretary of state urging them to intervene in the council's decision. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The American Library Association and the Association of Research Libraries are among the organizations to join a new coalition dedicated to promoting "balanced" copyright laws. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Connect Books m.d. Justin Adams has said a more “sustainable” model is needed for the library supply chain. Adams, who has led the company since January, emphasised Connect Books’ commitment to serving the public library sector, but said the Norwich-based firm had recently conducted an internal... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Caitlin Moran has written about austerity and libraries in her column for the Times Magazine in which she has said libraries are being starved of funding so they will become "weak mutant ghosts." Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Already in over 1,000 libraries in the U.S. and Canada, users abroad will soon be able to use 3M to borrow library ebooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Library of Birmingham will be open for just six hours on weekends once planned cuts are introduced. Under the plans, which have seen the library's opening hours slashed from more than 70 hours a week to just 40, the library will be open for six hours on a Saturday, and closed all day on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Birmingham could set up a cooperative model with staff in order to keep its 39 libraries open. Birmingham City Council's deputy leader Ian Ward told the Birmingham Mail that a deal was "close to being agreed". The model would see librarians running the service, with all of the 39 facilities... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Patterson originally announced that he would be donating $1.25 million to school libraries but now he's increasing the amount to $1.5 million. 'I’m blown away by the number of parents and teachers who have shared the urgent needs of their community’s school library,” the author said in a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
A coalition of publishers and education and industry groups has called on the U.S. Congress to support dedicated school library funding. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Erdrich is the author of such works as 'The Round House,' which won the 2012 National Book Award, and 'The Plague of Doves.' She is also the owner of the Minneapolis bookstore Birchbark Books and Native Arts. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new task force for libraries, which met for the first time last week, will focus its attention on sharing best practice between councils, promoting the role of digital and shaping a workforce for the future. One of the key aims of the Leadership for Libraries task force will be to highlight... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Free e-lending in libraries could cause "serious damage" to the bookselling industry, Booksellers Association (BA) chief Tim Godfray has said. Speaking as part of the Chief Executive Panel at the BA's Academic, Professional and Specialist Conference at Surrey's Wotton House yesterday (11th... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The government has announced plans to improve literacy by promoting public library membership in primary schools. But the move has had a mixed reaction, with campaigner Laura Swaffield describing the news as a “bad joke for World Book Day”. The government has put together an action plan,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Riders can stop playing Angry Birds and download something a bit more enriching.On the subway in Beijing, as in most cities with underground Wi-Fi connections, commuters usually spend their rides mindlessly staring at their phones, scrolling through emails or playing games. But now riders on one... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has bought Collector’s Library for an undisclosed sum. Harriet Sanders, currently rights director at Pan Macmillan, has been appointed publisher of Collector’s Library, which will become an imprint within Pan Macmillan under adult books publisher Jeremy Trevathan. The three... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]