Attendance at this year’s ALA Annual in New Orleans dwindled from the impressive 23,485 attendees who ventured to Chicago. According to Publishers Weekly, the 2018 ALA Annual in New Orleans was attended by “17,599 attendees and exhibitors" down from Chicago's 2017...
Here's a post that addresses a question that we're sure is at the forefront of everyone's mind: Should the taste of cheese be protected by copyright? Evidently, the Court of Justice of the European Union has been asked by a Dutch Court of Appeal to consider whether...
Believing that "the voice revolution shouldn’t leave anyone behind, "Abhishek Singh – who you may recognize for building Super Mario Bros in augmented reality" – has developed a "clever app that lets Amazon Alexa read sign language" so those with an extreme hearing...
This post in the Fremont Tribune highlights a new, innovative business model that may start a trend. It's a liquor store-bookstore hybrid where imbibers and readers mix and mingle called Dave's Drive-In Liquor store. At first it may seem a strange combo, but the owner...
In spring 2019, Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas will be hosting a symposium honoring native Kansan and socialist publisher, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius . With help from his wife Marcet, Haldeman-Julius "revolutionized, if not created, mass-market...
Fans of the ancient classics will be delighted to learn that a magnificent new edition of Diogenes “Lives of the Eminent Philosophers.” has just been published. As Washington Post reviewer Michael Dirda implies, although Diogenes' handiwork is believed to be "as much...
Evidently BuzzFeed News Reporter Arianna Rebolini is a big fan of the "The Great American Read program" in which "PBS has published a list of 100 beloved novels" culled from a survey of thousand of respondents. But she is even more taken with the "travel posters" that...
On the Edge of Discovery: The Secret of Fore-Edge Paintings is a post by writer and artist Grace Nuth that chronicles "the excitement and thrill of a bibliophile who discovers a beautifully bound copy of a classic book in a random small bookstore" as she "opens the...
NORTH Dean of the Library - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Digital Content Management Archivist for Institutional Collections - Harvard University Scholarly Communication Librarian I/II, Falvey Library, Villanova University, Villanova, PA Public Services...
NORTH Dean of the Library - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Digital Content Management Archivist for Institutional Collections - Harvard University Scholarly Communication Librarian I/II, Falvey Library, Villanova University, Villanova, PA Public Services...
CCC Releases a Study of How Knowledge Workers Handle Information CCC is unveiling key findings from “Information Seeking and Consumption Study,” which is based on data gathered by Outsell. They include the following: [P]otential instances of unlicensed sharing per...
Library of Congress Opens New Web Archive Collection Documenting Protests Against Racism & Learn About LC’s Black History Month Programs Citing the Library of Congress Newsroom, infoDOCKET reports "A new web archive collection from the Library of Congress...
MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES arXiv announces new policy on ChatGPT and similar tools According to the arXiv.org blog "The recent release of AI technology that generates new text has raised serious questions among the research community....
