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08 Dec 09

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13 Nov 09

Since planning began in 1985, the Perseus Digital Library Project has explored what happens when libraries move online. Two decades later, as new forms of publication emerge and millions of books become digital, this question is more pressing than ever. Perseus is a practical experiment in which we explore possibilities and challenges of digital collections in a networked world.

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31 Oct 09

The Future of Reading - 11/1/2009 - Library Journal

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Several social and technological developments of the 20th century, such as television, electronic games, and even comic books, have been generally perceived as threats to literacy and the practice of reading. For some reading purists, even the growing popularity of ebooks and audiobooks is a signal that the end of real, true reading is near.
On the other hand, computer information networks and new personal, portable electronic reading appliances—Kindle is the current darling—may result in an innovative, long-term growth in reading. Never before has so much reading material been so easily and quickly available to so many people. If reading founders, it will not be because of a dearth of things to read.
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- Libraries are feeling the heat, too, because many of these early e-reading platforms, which combine a large online bookstore, a rapid and easy-to-use distribution system, and a portable reading device into a complete reading experience, seem to be eliminating libraries from the equation.
- “Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources,” the 2005 OCLC report on an extensive survey of thousands of library users, notes, “Roughly 70 percent of respondents, across all geographic regions and U.S. age groups, associate library first and foremost with books. There was no runner-up.”
- Reading already is an umbrella term encompassing a wide variety of human behaviors.
- The boundaries and varieties of reading experiences continue to expand and evolve. For example, perhaps the way gamers interact with highly structured, complex games qualifies as a new form of reading.
- Reading always has been multisensory.
- For starters, we all need to move beyond the belief that managing the making of copies is the best way to assert rights in the digital era. Libraries, as public good institutions, have the august responsibility to promulgate and defend the rights of libraries and of the reading public, while respecting the rights of authors, publishers, aggregators, and manufacturers.
- As we move further into the 21st century, this balance of power will shift. Readers have an opportunity to gain more power and control over their reading experiences, but it will not come to pass without a struggle. Librarians need to help readers and be advocates for them during this messy process.
- Genres and publishing practices are not sacrosanct. The types of things we will read in the future may not resemble the things we read today.
- The reader should be empowered and able to control the mode of reading on his or her e-reading appliance of choice.
- The reader should be empowered and able to control the presentation aspects of the ebook.
- Readers, individually and in groups, have the right to add to and embellish a text, as long as the embellishments (e.g., notes, highlighting, marginalia, new characters, new episodes) are clearly distinguishable from the primary text.
- The reader has a right to save and share these embellishments, or keep them private.
- Rather than buy an instance of a text, which made sense when instances of a text involved a static relationship between the text and the text-bearing device, such as a text printed on paper, in the future the selling and leasing of reading material would make more sense if we lease access to the text itself, regardless of whatever hardware and software we use now and in the future to create a reading experience with that text.
- Librarians should encourage—nay, aid and abet—experimentation in reading. We need to cleave to the needs and wants of readers. We must continue to study their reading habits, then design and redesign our content collections, systems, and services to help them improve and maximize their reading experiences. We are in a long-term commitment with readers. We need to be vocal, flexible, and patient as the longstanding relationship between readers and the libraries that serve them continues to evolve.

26 Sep 09

Mobile Libraries: 100 Ways to Use Twitter In Your Library

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09 Sep 09

Archival Sound Recordings

Explore 44,500 selected
recordings of music,
spoken word, and human
and natural environments

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01 Jul 09

National Digital Library : Home

Welcome to the Fish and Wildlife Service's online digital media library. Here you will find a wide assortment of selected images, publications, video and audio clips that are in the public domain. You are free to use them as you wish - no permission is necessary. We do ask that you give credit to the photographer or creator and the US Fish and Wildlife Service in a format similar to the example below.

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30 Jun 09

What I Learned Today… » Blog Archive » Twitter for Libraries

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29 Jun 09

necclibrarytoolssmackdown - home

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17 Jun 09

ICDL - International Children's Digital Library

Our Mission

The mission of the International Children’s Digital Library Foundation is to excite and inspire the world's children to become members of the global community – children who understand the value of tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in children's literature available online.

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