Google Scholar: Library-hostile terms of service?
Is Google Scholar's TOS too restrictive for libraries? See the Digital Librarian blog.
MPL employee gives pro-ad side
Ryan T. Curry, author of earlier comments in favor of the Mao ad to raise money for the building pictured here, confirms that, yes, he indeed works for the Minneapolis Public...
Gold Coast bookchat tonight
The Gold Coast, the best-seller by Nelson DeMille, inspired by The Great Gatsby and set on modern Long Island, will be the topic of an audio chatcast tonight at 8 p.m....
Minneapolis Mao’s Hitler substitute
In its phony freedom-of-speech campaign to raise money for the Minneapolis Public Library, a "buzz"-minded ad agency came up with a slick graphic noting that Mao was a librarian. See the...
E-books and Homer Hickam, Jr.: The school-library connection
Homer Hickam, Jr. from Coalwood, West Virginia, grew up to be both a NASA engineer and the author of the best-selling memoir Rocket Boys.
Just how did it happen, and might...
Mayor’s sister-in-law spins Mao library controvery–as Minneapolis Star-Tribune reporter
Scads of people on the Net--not all but many--are learning to love blogs and distrust big newspapers.
Minneapolis, where a sister-in-law of the mayor tried to do spin control on bloggers...
‘Cry for books, not time’: MIT’s $100 Third World laptop to the rescue–as an...
<img src="http://www.teleread.com/laptopkids.jpg" align="left" hspace="5" alt="Third World children with laptops"Who should be able to buy those $100 MIT laptop computers intended for the Third World? I fervently hope they make it to...
French national library president on Google Print: A TSF interview
Jean Noel Jeanneney, president of France's National Library, fears that Google Print will favor U.S. books--the reason France wants a Euro library. Not enough Sartre, eh? A Google rep, surprise, disagrees....
Illinois Big Brothery: Naperville library to require fingerprints if you use its computers
Details from Librarian.net. And so soon after the fingerprint item in Wired News about possible DVD-related Big Brothery? Almost inevitably some e-book DRM zealots will go for the fingerprint approach. (Correction:...
Paperbacks in decline among boomers: E-books to the rescue?
Paperback sales are down, thanks to the baby boomers' fading eyes. Could e-books--with adjustable font sizes--be the ticket for consumers and libraries alike? Some publishers are enlarging the type used in...