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...
How University Libraries Can Protect Data and Scientific Freedom appears on the Wire Science website. It was first published by ZBW Mediatalk and has been republished under a Creative Commons license. (This text has been translated from German.) Photo: Alfons...
How University Libraries Can Protect Data and Scientific Freedom appears on the Wire Science website. It was first published by ZBW Mediatalk and has been republished under a Creative Commons license. (This text has been translated from German.) Photo: Alfons...
In a New Report, Clarivate’s Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Proposes a New Method for Analyzing the Credit Authors of Academic Papers Receive via Citations According to infoDOCKET "Clarivate today released a new report from the company’s Institute for...
ACRL Consulting Services Launches Facilitative Support for Library Leaders According to ACRL Insider "ACRL’s experienced consultants/coaches are available to work with you or you and your leadership team one-on-one or in a small group, and in the short-, medium-,...
University of Arkansas: Libraries’ $5.1 Million Gifts to Result in Endowments and Named Spaces According to the University of Arkansas News "Two anonymous gifts totaling more than $5 million will make history and create new opportunities for students and faculty in...
