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The View from Down Under: The Market Begins to Free Up

The View from Down Under: The Market Begins to Free Up

But, for this much-overlooked corner of the world, ebooks have started to take their first tentative steps into the mainstream, and the logjam of rights, content and device issues has started to free up.

ITHAKA Awarded Contract to Serve as Federal Depository Library Program Consultant (FDLP)

To be more specific, FDLP will be working with ITHAKA S+R (Strategy and Research) who will issue a final report in Q1, 2011. From an Announcement...

new Q&A site for librarians? What about the old site?

A few folks have been buzzing about the proposal over on Stack Exchange to build a stack overflow-type site for library Q&A stuff. I was wondering about this, since we already...

Exhibit Documents Bowling Green’s Theater History

Exhibit Documents Bowling Green’s Theater History

The Kentucky Library & Museum is currently displaying materials that document the history of Bowling Green theater in an exhibit titled Enjoy the Show, which ends February 14...

Current state of college e-handouts complicated and confusing

Current state of college e-handouts complicated and confusing

My DSL went out in a thunderstorm today, and between exhaustively troubleshooting it on the phone with an Indian-accented technician and catching up on several hundred Google...

The Virginia Quarterly Review, part 2: Forging a future, now in jeopardy

The Virginia Quarterly Review, part 2: Forging a future, now in jeopardy

In the universe of literary journals, the Virginia Quarterly Review became something of an outlier: It invested resources in long-form narrative journalism. "I believe in the...

The Virginia Quarterly Review, part 1: A suicide rocks the esteemed literary journal

The Virginia Quarterly Review, part 1: A suicide rocks the esteemed literary journal

On July 30, Kevin Morrissey printed a note, gathered his identification and called the Charlottesville, Va., police to report a shooting at the coal tower, a local landmark...

The 12 Best Ways To Customize Your Facebook Pages

The 12 Best Ways To Customize Your Facebook Pages

Orli Yakuel at TechCrunch presents The 12 Best Ways To Customize Your Facebook Pages . This helpful post reviews twelve third-party tab applications which enable page owners to...

World Treaty Index

World Treaty Index

The World Treaty Index began life in 1974 and has been in more or less continuous development since that time, as the output of the database moved from print to various...

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