Library Link of the Day
April 2010
- Texas Conservatives Vote to Make Textbooks “Right” [GlossyNews.com]
- The relationship between public libraries and Google: Too much information [First Monday]
- Libraries as places to linger and mingle [The Christian Science Monitor]
- Survivor: The History of the Library [History Magazine]
- Publishers & Librarians: Two Cultures, One Goal [Library Journal]
- Bits, Bands and Books [The New York Times]
- Iraqi Files in U.S.: Plunder or Rescue? [The New York Times]
- Copyright Challenge for Sites That Excerpt [The New York Times]
- Textbooks That Professors Can Rewrite Digitally [The New York Times]
- Yochai Benkler on the new open-source economics [TED]
- The fantastic appeal of fantasy [Telegraph]
- The End of Books [Scribner's Magazine]
- Schmidt sees online profits in newspapers' future [CNET News]
- Teaching About Web Includes Troublesome Parts [The New York Times]
- Library of Congress: We're archiving every tweet ever made [Ars Technica]
- 5 Ways The Google Book Settlement Will Change The Future of Reading [io9]
- Copyright and wrong [The Econimist]
- Toward a New Alexandria [The New Republic]
- 'Twilight,' 'ttyl,' among books deemed most 'offensive' and 'inappropriate' for kids [Entertainment Weekly]
- Penguin cookbook calls for 'freshly ground black people' [The Guardian]
- George Washington's $300,000 library book fine [BBC News]
- The iPad, the Kindle, and the future of books [The New Yorker]
- That Mighty Sorting Machine Is Certainly One for the Books [The New York Times]
- Amazon.com v. Book publishers [The Christian Science Monitor]
- What the Humanities PhD Crisis Means for Academic Librarians [Library Journal]
- 'Lost' librarian survey reveals 1-in-5 have gotten intimate in the stacks [The Daily News]
- Library books end up in trash [Courier Times]
- The ethics of piracy [Tool Talk]
- Check out the new look of libraries [Metro]
- Gutenberg 2.0 [Harvard Magazine]
These links are not updated for accuracy; older links may be dead.
