Good ideas bubble up at the strangest times...too bad we can't blog in the shower!
The Department of Justice is suing Apple and a handful of big-name publishers over an e-book pricing scheme. According to PCMag.com, the companies conspired in a price fixing strategy to “restore competition to the [e-book] marketplace.” The article states that Amazon has had a monopoly over e-book sales for some time.
The 2012 PLA Conference came and went last month. We were very pleased to reconnect with so many colleagues, clients and friends!
Library book donation programs aren't just for honoring or memorializing humans!
Barbara Genco, Collection Management Editor for Library Journal and Ivy Library Consultant, spoke last week in New York at the O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference — an annual event where publishers, editors, authors, marketing professionals, librarians and booksellers faced with new publishing technologies can come together to learn about advancements, discover opportunities and share new strategies.
Ever think of your library as a brain health center? For the baby boomer generation, it is.
If Amazon didn't stir up enough anger among small businesses with its recent endorsement of the online sales tax bill, the Internet superstore unofficially declared war on brick and mortar retailers over the weekend.
A small wall area or empty space can be turned into a large-impact community resource that guarantees more visitors and revenues to your library. A few pointers:
We reflected this morning on the popularity of e-readers as gifts for children and teens this holiday season as well as the growing availability of e-books at libraries. But a Sunday article in The New York Times has since caught our attention, reporting that a significant number of parents, many who use e-readers themselves, have drawn a line for their young children—they insist on sticking to hard copies.
The iPad, the new Amazon Fire and the new NOOK Color tablets are all the rage for technophiles with dollars to spare. They run lively kid-friendly Apps, are full color, have responsive touch screens and are WiFi enabled. Educators love them and tout their adoption as tools for enhancing the learning for kids with ADD, Autism spectrum and more. Some parents have embraced them as more ‘educational’ replacements for the now familiar DVD-player-in-the-SUV strategy for long trips “over the river and through the woods.”
Teen and young adult library pages can help provide an extraordinary customer service experience for visitors.
I asked the reference librarian, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
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