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E-book Reading Jumps; Print Book Reading Declines, by Lee Rainie and Maeve Duggan “The population of e-book readers is growing. In the past year, the number of those who read e-books increased from 16% of all Americans ages 16 and older to 23%. At the same time, the number of those who read printed books …
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Reading Habits in Different Communities, by Carolyn Miller, Kristen Purcell and Lee Rainie. December 20, 2012 “Reading is foundational to learning and the information acquisition upon which people make decisions. For centuries, the capacity to read has been a benchmark of literacy and involvement in community life. In the 21st Century, across all types of …
Via LLRX.com – The risks if the DPLA wont create a full-strength national digital library system: Setbacks for K-12, family literacy, local libraries, preservation, digital divide efforts? – David H. Rothman maintains that the Harvard-originated national digital library initiative is an underachiever in K-12 matters and identifies other areas where the DPLA could better serve …
“The Library holds the largest rare-book collection in North America (more than 700,000 volumes), including the largest collection of 15th-century books in the Western Hemisphere. The collection also includes the first extant book printed in North America, The Bay Psalm Book (1640). Approximately half of the Librarys book and serial collections are in languages other …
“The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) is very proud to present the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, a free online digitized virtual library of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Hundreds of manuscripts made up of thousands of fragments – discovered from 1947 and until the early 1960’s in the Judean Desert along the western shore …
Embedded Academic Librarianship: A Review of the Literature. Stephanie J. Schulte, Assistant Professor and Education and Reference Services Coordinator, Health Sciences Library, The Ohio State University. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 4 Oct. 2012 “Objectives The purpose of this review is to examine the development of embedded librarianship, its multiple meanings, and activities …
Dempsey is OCLC Vice President and Chief Strategist: “This article discusses the position of the catalog and uses it to illustrate more general discovery and workflow directions for libraries. There is a renaissance of interest in the catalog and catalog data. Yet it comes at a time when the catalog itself is being reconfigured in …
The changing world of libraries, Lee Rainie, November 28, 2012. “Nine takeaways for librarians: E-reading is taking off because e-reading gadgets are taking off The gadget doesnt make the reader, but it may change the reader E-book readers are reading omnivores (and probably influencers) E-book readers are not platform snobs AND they like different platforms …
YouTube: “BFS-Auto can achieve high-speed and high-definition book digitization at over 250 pages/min using the original media format. This performance is realized by three key points: high-speed fully-automated page flipping, real-time 3D recognition of the flipped pages, and high-accuracy restoration to a flat document image. This system is toward the practical use in 2013.”
Via LLRX.com – Hurricane Sandy and the national digital library issue: Could we have stopped or slowed down global warming? – David H. Rothman’s commentary maintains it is imperative that civic matters, including those that resulted in the aftermath of hurricane Sandy, not become lost opportunities to find and share information, and to make best …
Rachel M. Zahorsky, ABA Journal: “More and more billing partners are knocking research costs off invoices before theyre even submitted to clients, legal consultant Rob Mattern of Mattern & Associates recently told me…This trend is apparent at firms that negotiate deals with research providers but historically havent passed along discounts they received to their clients, …
