How a career in libraries is paying dividends for PW columnist Sari Feldman in her new role—grandmother. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-21 05:00:00 UTC ]
As a girl, the author of “Wild” and “Tiny Beautiful Things” spent hours studying Scholastic book club catalogs. But “my family was too poor to pay for the books,” she says. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-02-18 15:29:22 UTC ]
Libraries across Southern California are aiming to serve the immigrant readers of rapidly changing cities by purchasing books in a variety of languages. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-02-17 13:00:04 UTC ]
Bradford Council has reversed planned £1.05m cuts to its libraries but says some services could still be moved to other buildings in a bid to make them financially viable. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-16 18:54:07 UTC ]
As we all know, there is only one Valentine and it is every book. Luckily, Harrison Ford talking about how great libraries are is an acceptable human Valentine proxy for all books. Why—besides the fact that you can’t spell”Harrison Ford, you irascible Jedi” without “Library”—is Ford making PSAs... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-14 14:17:02 UTC ]
Do some good and help these classrooms build inclusive libraries by donating or spreading the word about their projects. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-02-14 11:41:33 UTC ]
As a girl, the author of “Wild” and “Tiny Beautiful Things” spent hours studying Scholastic book club catalogs. But “my family was too poor to pay for the books,” she says. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-02-13 10:00:03 UTC ]
OPINION: Does seeing ad spend and number of advertisements really tell us that much? Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2020-02-07 16:00:00 UTC ]
From about 1890 to 1940, a half century of ultra-cheap editions of Jane Austen’s novels aimed explicitly at educating the working poor. Because these ill-printed and shabby versions of her stories never made it into the scholarly libraries that safeguard “important” editions, the hardscrabble... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-04 09:49:29 UTC ]
First published in 1977, Usborne’s The World of the Unknown: Ghosts was among the most treasured books (and anecdotally, the most stolen) in school libraries of the late 70s and 80s. Many of my friends—a disproportionate number of whom are writers and artists—remember poring over the pages of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-01-29 09:48:13 UTC ]
ON HALLOWEEN 2016, former Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren tweeted, “Colleges should stop building vanity projects like huge libraries and billing students–full libraries are on our smartphones!” At the time, this statement sounded like garden-variety know-nothingism, ideological in the sense... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-01-28 13:30:27 UTC ]
Ten libraries could be closed across Hampshire with others having their opening hours reduced after the local authority announced plans to slash £1.76m from the service’s budget. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-10 01:00:51 UTC ]
Rakuten OverDrive, a platform for digital books (used by more than 43,000 libraries and schools worldwide), has released a list of its most-borrowed ebooks and audiobooks in 2019. There are no real surprises on the list, besides maybe the fact that so many people want to listen to a woman tell... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-01-08 19:19:19 UTC ]
When libraries help people in cold weather, they become a critical service for teens, the elderly, and unsheltered people. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-01-07 11:35:59 UTC ]
Darlington Borough Council will pay £2.9m to keep one of its libraries open after abandoning plans to close it. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-05 21:59:32 UTC ]
Some Linux gamers who are using Wine to play Battlefield V are finding themselves permanently banned from the game. Player using the DXVK package are falling foul of Electronic Arts' anti-cheat system, seemingly because the DXVK Direct3D DLLs -- used to render 3D scenes in Wine -- are detected,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2020-01-04 10:03:20 UTC ]
Plans for Essex libraries by the county council have sent “alarm bells ringing” about increased commercialisation of the service, a campaign group has said. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-24 02:02:07 UTC ]
The head of Essex's libraries has branded the county's current library IT system "clunky and out of date", as she hails the opportunity to invest in the service. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-23 00:45:10 UTC ]
The best way to end the e-book standoff between publishers and libraries is to use data. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
A daily roundup of the most interesting and awesome bookish links from around the web! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-12-18 11:30:11 UTC ]