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ADHD Librarian: Are we selling buggy whips?
I am listening to a lot of people who are very upset by this because they believe that this power is putting teacher-librarians and school libraries at risk. So to that end we are seeing letters to the...
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The Launch of Scholrly: new search engine seeks to change the way people find...
Search - for researchers See it on Scoop.it, via ebooks for school libraries
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Publishers and Libraries Clash Over E-Books - KQED (blog)
Publishers and Libraries Clash Over E-BooksKQED (blog)A new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, Libraries, Patrons, and E-books, offers a glimpse at the current state of American...
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Media and Information Literacy: strength through diversity
A presentation by Sheila Webber, June 25th 2012.See it on Scoop.it, via ebooks for school libraries
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Librarians on the Fly: Myth #4 How much Time Librarians Actually Read and How...
And.....52% Host Book Clubs in the Library 40% Don't Belong in a Book Club and Don't Host a Book Club 5% Host a Book Club and Belong to an Adult Book Club 2% Teachers Host a Book Club 1% Belong to an...
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E-Books, I'll Miss You
Cute article!A gadget lover ends a long-term relationship with his e-reader and rediscovers the joys of paper.See it on Scoop.it, via ebooks for school libraries
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Bookslut | An Interview with Tan Twan Eng
I really loved this book and have been telling people to read it!!! Also, his first novel: The Gift of Rain. it's in the wrong topic though. I meant to scoop this to reading and reading lists. oops!See...
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Lulu Blog » Are eBooks a Viable Option for the Classroom?
Libraries can be a place where students can borrow e-books from sites like Overdrive, or other companies that let you borrow books. School libraries can also be a place where a school employee can...
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What’s a Library Dollar Worth? « PWxyz
I meant to scoop this into ebooks, not library trends. anyway, my quesiton: what are publishers saying is their reason for the price differences?See it on Scoop.it, via ebooks for school libraries
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The Visible Hand of the Market? | American Libraries Magazine
Similar to the PW scoop. This one by Jamie LaRue. See it on Scoop.it, via ebooks for school libraries
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Travis’s Excellent (Ereader) Adventure
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Travis’s Excellent (Ereader) Adventure
I love this! Saw it yesterday, but only now getting around to rescooping it. Thanks!See it on Scoop.it, via ebooks for school libraries
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50 Surprising Ways To Use Your Amazon Kindle
The Kindle is good. The Kindle is great. We surrender our will, as of this date! Amazon’s own ereader attracts its fair share of fans, but its potential stretches well beyond merely reading various...
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ALA President Protests Library Ebook Sales Practices in Open Letter ...
American Library Association (ALA) President Maureen Sullivan released an open letter today denouncing the refusal by several large trade publishers to sell ebooks to provide access to their ebooks in...
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New Survey Documents Growth of eBook Publishing Business and ...
The results of the 4th Annual eBook Production Survey are now available. Issued in April of this year and sponsored by Publishers Weekly (PW) magazine and Aptara, the survey tracks the eBook...
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Scraping the Bottom of the Librarian eBook Patience Barrel
I may have already scooped this....“Librarian Patience Has Run out on E-Book Lending Issues, Library Association Says” was the title of the article that ran in Digital Book World last week covering a...
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Eight Things in Education That Will Change in the Digital Age
"Are we asking our students to collect dots or connect dots?" asks author Seth Godin, who wrote the book Stop Stealing Dreams.See it on Scoop.it, via ebooks for school libraries
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E-Book Is Reading You
Digital-book publishers and retailers now know more about their readers than ever before. How that's changing the experience of reading.See it on Scoop.it, via ebooks for school libraries
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The Wrong War Over eBooks: Publishers Vs. Libraries - Forbes
Libraries, like other consumers, should be free to buy any published e-content at competitive prices, to keep these items in their collection, and to loan them to their patrons.See it on Scoop.it, via...
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Can E-Books and Libraries Coexist?
E-reader owners read more books in a year than their print-only counterparts. Is print really a dying medium?See it on Scoop.it, via ebooks for school libraries
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Soapbox: Not Fast Enough | School Library Journal
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The Library of Congress and the iPad
There is a great resource offered by the Library of Congress that allows anyone – no account or fee required – to access primary sources scanned by the Library.Linda Mercer's insight:cool!!!!See it on...
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Streaming Ebooks: A New Distribution Model for Schools
One ebook, one device, for one child is not ideal for K-12 Schools. Digital book streaming may be one way to provide schools access do ebook libraries. StarWalk Kids Media is one company distributing...
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Streaming Ebooks: A New Distribution Model for Schools | Digital Book World
One ebook, one device, for one child is not ideal for K-12 Schools. Digital book streaming may be one way to provide schools access do ebook libraries. StarWalk Kids Media is one company distributing...
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Ebooks are actually not books—schools among first to realizing this fact |...
Schools are realizing that ebooks are not books at all—they are software and they should be sold the way software is sold.See it on Scoop.it, via ebooks for school libraries
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BiblioLabs, curating multimedia digital anthologies, an interview with ...
Want to hear more about ebooks? Over 50+ interviews are available on the NSR Interviews page. More on BibioLabs: BiblioLabs offers two connected platforms to libraries: BiblioBoard Creator and...
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Top 10 E-Book Trends of 2013: Apple Loses; Amazon Wins; Prices Drop - PBS...
Top 10 E-Book Trends of 2013: Apple Loses; Amazon Wins; Prices Drop PBS MediaShift Apple went to trial over civil allegations by the U.S. Department of Justice that it conspired with publishers to...
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SLJ Survey: Ebook Usage in School Libraries Exp...
“School library media specialists, especially in high schools, expect ebook usage by their students to rise incrementally, according to the 2013 Survey of Ebook Usage in U.S.See it on Scoop.it, via...
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10 elements of great digital content for young learners | eSchool News |...
Digital content is making an impression across the nation. Here are 10 ways digital content can be created to impact young learners.See it on Scoop.it, via ebooks for school libraries
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Publishing has entered a new and different era | FutureBook
“Describing yesterdays as if they were tomorrows”… That’s how author Hugh Howey recently characterized publishing predictions. There’s more than a grain of truth in his assessment.Most efforts to...
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