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In deference to whatever new library-science-oriented readship I may have picked up last week, I present an installment of the hard hitting feature “Late Breaking Library News!” Hollah back, my homies in the stack.
- Ebooks responsible for surge in library memberships
- Seattle libraries to close two days a week? Seattle??
- Kindles and laptops to replace books at school library
- An Obama Presidential library? Already? What’s next, the Nobel?
- Library douchebag patron blacking out language they find offensive and returning books
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October 27th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
holla!
October 28th, 2009 at 9:07 am
Well, I won’t be reading or renting any Kindle books until I see an answer to my question: are the owners of Kindle software going to end up owning a monopoly on printing?
When books are dead, will publishers have to pay royalties to Kindle? Will Kindle have the right to decide that certain things should not be published? Will the software include the ability to retroactively modify or remove content?
And if Kindles are “the future”, how come there’s always this threat of force, this sense that those of us who love books had better just adjust to “the future” because we are going to be forced into that future involuntarily? I have moved from tired to angry regarding the intimidating feeling I get every time I am exposed to another warning that I had better say goodbye to my books because someone, somewhere, has already decided I WILL like Kindle better than books. As soon as I am “educated”….
October 28th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
The Seattle libraries’ cutbacks don’t surprise me.
Funding in U.S. municipalities are treading H2O or
in the red, and just because Seattle’s a comparatively
literate city doesn’t mean the bureaucrats won’t
target them instead of WalMart. Hey, even the basketball
Sonics felt no love from the city.
October 30th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Thanks for the librarian shout-out! Great presentation last week, gotta love those who appreciate a hot librarian. :)