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Dennis the Menace in Library - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Dennis and his mom are looking at sign in library pointing to computers, AV, and lecture hall but no books. Caption is "I remember when we came to the library to look for books".
Good to use in presentation about change in libraries and the popular culture perspective.
School chooses Kindle; are libraries for the history 'books'? - USATODAY.com
Follow up on Cushing Academies choice to go digital. Has follow up interviews and references some of the issues with all digital collections like database providers terms and reading electronically.
EBSCOhost: What We Talk About When We Talk About Repositories
Paper that discusses that Service must be the focus not the repository and highlights the four core activities of repositories and tracks the development of awareness and current lack of success. Great description of new models of service and core to where I see the future of libraries.
Thingology (LibraryThing's ideas blog): Ebook economics: Are libraries screwed?
The advance of ebooks will no doubt bring much good. As often with technological change, we probably can't even predict what wonderful new things will emerge! But we can see some serious dangers ahead, and try to deal with them. I see three major areas of concern: to libraries, to physical bookstores and to the freedom to read in unfree countries.
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Because the "consumer model" won't work, libraries will need—and publishers and
ebook providers—will create a "library model." The library model will involve a
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The "library model" will be inevitably pushed toward "rental" not "ownership."
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New Digital Book Readers Spark Competition for Kindle - TIME
Time article by Adam Rose about the maturing market for e-readers. Sunday October 11.
College technology 'catching up' with students - USATODAY.com
New technologies used in teaching featured in USAToday on Oct 05, 2009 by Kathleen Gray and Robin Erb. Includes schools giving out iPods and Kindles.
YouTube - Glo - Experience the Bible like never before
Glo is an interactive Bible with interactive featuress like an atlas, timeline, study notes, short videos, and tools to track your reading. Video is also embedded in the companies web site.\n
Glo : Experience the Bible Like Never Before
Promotional video demonstrating the digital bible which includes the text of the Bible accented by interactive maps, timelines, short videos and study notes. The product also includes a tool to track your reading habits.
The Vook: A Picture Book, but the Pictures Move - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
In a book-bending experiment combining film and prose, Simon & Schuster and Vook, a multimedia company that produces video content for books, are releasing four digital titles in which links to short video segments are seamlessly interspersed throughout the text.
News: Libraries of the Future - Inside Higher Ed
"The university library of the future will be sparsely staffed, highly decentralized, and have a physical plant consisting of little more than special collections and study areas" says Daniel Greenstein, vice provost for academic planning and programs at the University of California System. At Ithaka conference September 24, 2009
Ithakas 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education.pdf
Housewright, Ross and Schonfeld, Roger on August 18, 2008.
This document focuses on identifying differences between respondents
based on institutional size and disciplinary divisions.
In the modern era, academia has been faced with unprecedented and ubiquitous change, largely driven by\ntechnological developments like the personal computer and the internet. Changing technologies have been\naccompanied by changes in research habits, scholarly communications patterns, campus roles, and more.\nThese changes offer exciting new opportunities, but also pose significant challenges for those who serve\nthe higher education community. In order to be effective, librarians, information technologists, academic\nadministrators, and others concerned with facilitating research, teaching, and scholarly communication in\na changing world must keep up with the complex and evolving needs and attitudes of scholars. For\nlibraries in particular, a deep understanding of the information needs of a scholarly community and how\nexisting services mesh with these needs is essential in order to effectively serve and remain relevant on\nthe modern campus. To succeed in the internet age, libraries must be aware of which traditional roles are\nno longer needed and which potential roles would be valued, and strategically shift their service offerings\nto maximize their value to local users. We hope that this document, describing the findings of two largescale\nsurveys conducted in 2006, will help librarians and others interested in scholarship in the digital\nworld think about these changing needs and prompt consideration of how to best serve faculty in a rapidly\nchanging world.
This Electronic Life » WordPress, Digital Publishing, and Web Design » Daniel J. Quinn
Article about Cushing Academy published on Sept 19. Blog run by Wordpress that is a good example of Web design and the full range of social media embedded into the site.
A library without the books - The Boston Globe
David Abel, September 4, 2009\nhigh school outside of Boston, Cushing Academy, decided to get rid of all there books and use e-readers and virtual collections. \nBoston Globe - Local Massachusetts section
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