Library Link of the Day
April 2012
- Dog Lending Coming to Harvard Library [The Daily Crimson]
- The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire [Searcher]
- Birth of a Book [Glen Milner]
- Scholarship, Liberated From Paper at Last [The Chronicle of Higher Education]
- Hungarian president resigns in plagiarism scandal [The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
- Libraries in schools keeping up with times [The Boston Globe]
- You Autocomplete Me [Slate]
- Are Privatized Public Libraries So Bad? [The Atlantic Cities]
- US archives website overload with interest in 1940 census [The Telegraph]
- E-books spur reading among Americans, survey shows [CNN]
- Think Like A Startup: a white paper to inspire library entrepreneurialism [Brian Mathews]
- Apple's Steve Jobs conspired on e-book price-fixing, lawsuits say [Los Angeles Times]
- Disgruntled library patron ready for court [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
- Timbuktu librarians protect manuscripts from rebels [Reuters]
- Oxford University, Vatican libraries to digitize works [Reuters]
- Police salvage blind Trish Vickers' inkless novel pages [Bridport News]
- Next Issue launches "Netflix for magazines" [CBS News]
- High court steps into key online copyright case [The Salt Lake Tribune]
- Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin [The Guardian]
- Yale University Card Catalog [Ellen Su]
- Has Kindle Killed the Book Cover? [The Atlantic]
- Trust pushes for open access to research [BBC News]
- Amazon's knock-off problem (35 Shades of Grey, anyone?) [Fortune]
- Sacking a Palace of Culture [The New York Times]
- U of M opens up to open source textbooks [Minnesota Public Radio]
- Resolved: Libraries are Obsolete [Harvard University]
- If Harvard Can’t Afford Academic Journal Subscriptions, Maybe It’s Time for an Open Access Model [Time]
- At 92, a Bandit to Hollywood but a Hero to Soldiers [The New York Times]
- Hitler Back in Print [Der Spiegel]
- Book Reviews: A Tortured History [The Atlantic]
These links are not updated for accuracy; older links may be dead.
