Short of becoming a time machine for well-meaning Gen X slackers, I cannot imagine a grander afterlife for the humble phone booth than to be reincarnated as a cosy wee library. One day you’re a rusted urinal, all-but invisible to the cellphone-clasping masses trundling past, and the next you’ve... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-25 17:54:55 UTC ]
A school librarian talks about how he teaches students to think critically about fake news on the internet. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-01-25 11:30:00 UTC ]
Throughout our history, we've see that when we come together in civil, honest conversations based on facts and science, history and truth, we find commonality. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-22 05:00:00 UTC ]
It’s been a bad year for libraries and those who love them. Despite some interesting tech innovations (we could have been cleaning our books with UV rays this whole time!), many temporarily reopened libraries are closing again due to surging COVID numbers and COVID exposures, and many other... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-11 18:26:49 UTC ]
Explore libraries that have unusual collections, exist in strange places, or use novel modes of transportation to deliver books to readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-01-11 11:30:00 UTC ]
If you, like me, could really use some nice library-oriented news right about now, you’re in luck. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the impossibility of going to physical libraries for much of the year, readers borrowed record numbers of ebooks, audiobooks, and digital magazines from public... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-07 15:34:02 UTC ]
Readers worldwide borrowed some 430 million e-books, audiobooks and digital magazines in the past 12 months, a hefty 33% increase over 2019, OverDrive officials reported, based on data drawn from some 65,000 libraries and schools worldwide. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
In a free 50-page report released this week, three veteran publishing and digital media consultants offer a postmortem on 2020 and a glimpse at what the future holds for publishers, booksellers, libraries and readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
Take a book, give a book. Learn more about Little Free Libraries and how they're making appearances across all seven continents. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-01-04 11:37:00 UTC ]
The results of the AIE's fifth annual #IoLeggoPerché book donation program for schools and libraries surprised organizers with 300,000 books. The post Italy’s Fifth ‘Why I Read’ Campaign Generates Broad-Based Response appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-01-04 09:46:32 UTC ]
In a year dominated by a global pandemic and American politics, some might find it fitting that the library book most likely to be checked out across Ontario was a hopeful memoir written by the former first lady of the United States. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2020-12-31 09:00:00 UTC ]
A reader on saying goodbye not only to the books she can't bring on the next phase of her journey, but to her roomie, her sister. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-12-30 11:31:00 UTC ]
WHEN I WAS growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s and ’70s, I read every baseball book on the shelves of the libraries of my grammar school, junior high, and high school and the local branches of the public library. I absorbed them the way a nine-year-old immigrant might take in a new... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-12-27 13:30:28 UTC ]
Want a Little Free Library or lending library for your home? Here are 17 awesome Little Free Libraries to buy right now. - Kelly Jensen Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-12-23 11:32:00 UTC ]
Six libraries through history which have been destroyed and the history behind them. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-12-21 11:33:00 UTC ]
OverDrive has donated more than 6.6 million units to libraries and schools since the onset of the Covid-19 crisis. And the company’s efforts have extended beyond the pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
It’s largely accepted as a truism that libraries connect and work together—interlibrary loan, consortia, union catalogs. However, working together and connecting is not a simple task. Add in different histories, cultures, languages, political systems and you begin to get a sense of what... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
On Late Night with Seth Meyers this week, Slave Play and Daddy playwright Jeremy O. Harris announced he is donating a collection of 15 plays by Black playwrights to 53 libraries and community centers across the United States—and is donating one such collection to Northwestern University in Seth... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-09 17:29:54 UTC ]
Lack of funding for libraries is as dangerous as any conquering army in this chronicle of information destroyed throughout the ages. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2020-12-08 21:32:42 UTC ]
Another win for technology! Library users in Okayama City are able to check out library books without fear of illness, thanks to a high-tech ultraviolet light sterilizer that cleans books thoroughly. The sterilizer also blows air on the books to clear off potential dust. Said one library-goer,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-08 16:44:03 UTC ]