Amazon's Android-flavored reading app is offering up a couple more of its own e-reader's features for those with Google-fied devices. Just like folks with Kindles have already encountered, the Kindle for Android app now keeps tabs on time remaining in both chapter and book should pace be of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
I don’t claim to be an expert in much, but when it comes to securing a library job I’ve got hard-won advice worth sharing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Edouard Cointreau, founder of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, has donated his vast library to Paris-Rungis, which has been designated a City of Gastronomy. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Luton Borough Council is considering closing several libraries as it looks to make savings on its... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The UK lags behind the US on library advocacy, according to a researcher contributing to newly... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist Zadie Smith will help promote reading groups and libraries with a reading at Swiss... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Library campaigners are braced for a further round of cuts as the Government unveils the latest... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Welsh council leader has warned that entire local authority library departments could be at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
This Kickstarter tries to answer the question of why--in a world of digital media--kids in the developing world don’t have access to books. When Rebecca McDonald moved to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, she wasn’t a career humanitarian. Her most recent job was overseeing construction... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lincolnshire looks set to axe 32 libraries in a bid to save £2m from the county council... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
A survey of 2,000 library staff by union UNISON has revealed claims of major cuts to schools... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the UK, authors are paid by the government when their physical books are borrowed (around 6p per loan), but digital titles are not yet a part of that agreement. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Trade publishers contacted by the Society of Authors over the issue of ebook lending are using a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
A groundbreaking paperless public library system will open in Texas this year, the BBC reports.A groundbreaking paperless public library system will open in Texas this year, the BBC reports. Bexar County's $1.5-million BiblioTech project will open its first library branch without a single print... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Six libraries in Manchester are set to close on 29th June despite opposition from the public. A... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Brian Ashley, formerly Nottingham City Council's director of culture, will take on the role... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Croydon's Upper Norwood Library is set to lose nearly a third of its workforce as its opening... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Wholesaler Bertrams has bought Blackwell's academic library services contracts for £2.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The new James B. Hunt Library at North Carolina State University shows what can happen when you marry a library with cutting-edge technology and interesting design--plus an automated librarian. In a digital age where many commentators tolled the death knell for the book-bound library, we’ve... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Libraries across the country are taking part in a high-tech treasure based on Simon Mayo’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]