CIL2010: eBooks: Landscape & Implications Brian Hulsey talked about general themes and concerns about implementing and maintaining eBooks in your library. Print is the same, but it’s migrating. You have to be open and accept this change. Why is this change important to us? With budget cuts, we have to be available to our patrons [...]
Top 30 Library iPhone Apps (part 1) from Ellyssa Kroski. Some day I want an Android list too. As an Android user, I love my phone, I love the apps. At San Jose Public Library, we’re getting ready to launch an app with Boopsie that will work on all smart phones–iPhones, Android, Windows Mobile, etc. [...]
David Lee King has a good post about libraries, eBook readers, and the iPad. Tons of info about what’s there and how it works with our collections. Thanks David!
Check out Overdrive’s Program for Visually Impaired Readers, LEAP (Library eBook Accessibility Program). Libraries — link to this from your eBooks pages if you have OverDrive, + promote the heck out of it wherever you can. You have more disabled users than you know. From their announcement: Overdrive has created a program named LEAP (Library [...]
Below you will see my 13 Ways (and 147 Tools) to Help Your Library Save Money on Technology. These are my favorite options for libraries to use as alternatives to the expensive paid services and software that we use now, usually because our parent organizations or IT departments have gone along with the mainstream, bought [...]
Gale has announced a new iPhone application to help people use library resources. Building off of the AccessMyLibrary identity that Gale has promoted publicly,the application does two things: detects physical library branches within a 10-mile radius of the user on demand and uses a web product to connect people to the Gale online resources that [...]
For an upper, take a listen to NPR’s Open Mic with Neil Gaiman: “Heard Any Good Books Lately?” Gaiman discusses his own experiences with audio books and interviews others, including a representative from Audible.com and David Sedaris. You’ll hear an affirmation of reading’s impact on people, specifically the impact (and legitimacy) of audio books on [...]
I presented at the Hawaii Library Association about technologies (largely web services & software) that are free, open source, save time, and/or save money. I created a short list in the main body of the presentation with highlighted software, and then the last several slides offer a more extended list of more options. Some examples [...]
IL2009: Opening Keynote (Paul Holdengraber interviewing Vint Cerf) Vint Cerf is the Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. Paul Holdengraber is the Director of Public Programs at NYPL. The session started with Paul asking Vint about his known quote that “sleep is a waste of time.” Cerf only sleeps 4-6 hours a day. Holdengraber said that [...]
Google is planning to launch what it’s calling a “buy anywhere, read anywhere”digital books program called Google Editions. The launch is scheduled for the first half of 2010. The books can be purchased from any computing device, and then read on any other device. This gets around one of the major problems and criticisms of [...]
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