<< October 2015 | December 2015 >>
- The role of libraries in times of crisis [CLIP]
- A Penny for Your Books [The New York Times]
- Can a Professor Be Forced to Assign a $180 Textbook? [Inside Higher Ed]
- Public Universities Back Protest of Elsevier Pricing [Inside Higher Ed]
- Amazon opening its first real bookstore — at U Village [The Seattle Times]
- As U.S. Libraries Are Outsourced, Readers See Public Trust Erode [Bloomberg]
- Solving the Self-Published Puzzle [American Libraries]
- How Amazon Quietly Became America's Biggest Publisher of Translated Literature [New Republic]
- Airbnb Apologizes After Ad Fail [Inc.]
- What Open-Access Publishing Actually Costs [The Chronicle of Higher Education]
- Ban Before Reading [The New York Times]
- Declining E-book Sales Hit Home [Publishers Weekly]
- The Library in the Life of the User: Engaging with People Where They Live and Learn [OCLC]
- Hong Kong bookstore disappearances shock publishing industry [BBC News]
- How Could You Like That Book? [The New York Review of Books]
- Why Digitizing Harvard’s Law Library May Not Improve Access to Justice [Big Law Business]
- The Invisible Library [The New Yorker]
- Beneath New York Public Library, Shelving Its Past for High-Tech Research Stacks [The New York Times]
- Why Most Internships Are Actually Illegal [CollegeHumor]
- Texas rejects allowing academics to fact-check public school textbooks [The Christian Science Monitor]
- Literature vs genre is a battle where both sides lose [The Guardian]
- Are school librarians going way of the milkman? [The Charlotte Observer]
- What Will Libraries Be Like in 2100? [Slate]
- Text-mining block prompts online response [Nature]
- Scientists finally get under the skin of a 13th century publishing mystery [The Guardian]
- After Paris Attacks, Here’s What the CIA Director Gets Wrong About Encryption [Wired]
- The Future Of Libraries Is Collaborative, Robotic, And Participatory [Co.Exist]
- Anne Frank foundation moves to keep famous diary copyrighted for 35 more years [Ars Technica]
- ‘With all this technology, what do we need librarians for?’ [The Bulletin]
- A Storied Bookstore and Its Late Oracle Leave an Imprint on Islamabad [The New York Times]
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