Sherrill Redmon passed on to me today an article appearing in the 2/9/09 issue of The Nation, Stimulating Reading. The author, Katha Pollit appeals to President Obama to “Help books”, and goes on to describe various crises from falling library budgets to troubled newspaper and book publishers.
Public libraries face a huge challenge in this economic [...]
I recently added David Lankes” (professor of Info Sci @ Syracuse) Blog to my RSS feeds and been listening to some of his screencasts.
I really like this one as it gets to the heart of what we do in libraries…facilitate learning. He is provocative and I recommend spending the time with this. He [...]
Yikes! That’s a lot of visitors. Below is the Table as well as a link to the press release.
Global Internet Audience Surpasses 1 billion Visitors, According to comScore.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a survey of internet know-it-alls in December about where the Internet is going and where it is taking us. Some of the key findings that I think we in libraries need to pay attention to are:
The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet [...]
