Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton

American Libraries, the print publication you get as an ALA member, now has a Digital Supplement.  The first one was published today and it looks good.  It's being hosted on ZMags, a souped up PDF viewer webpage you access in your web browser.  It looks just like an American Libraries issue, and the page-turning feature even makes it look like the pages are turning.  As with all on-screen reading, I'd prefer to do it on paper if I could (which you can – easy to print – and yes, I know it's not green, but I do use scratch paper to print it if that makes you feel better).  You can also search the publication, a nice added-bonus that we also found was a huge plus for eBooks.  At a time when people are asking more from ALA for their membership dollars, it's nice to see them getting into e-publishing in a way that seems to work pretty well, at least for me.