Library Journal

New Study Uncovers Surprising Results of eBook &amp; Printed Books Trends

Here’s a new white paper that was commissioned by Ricoh. Research from IT Strategies, a consulting firm and performed in conjunction with the University of Colorado. It was released yesterday and athough its target audience is the printing industry we thought it might be of interest to some infoDOCKET readers. The white paper/report is titled, [...]

MOOCing at the Public Library

While much has been written about the role of academic libraries in supporting massive open online courses (MOOCs), the inclusion of MOOCs in a public library setting is largely unexplored territory. This past summer, the Ridgefield Library included a MOOC as part of its adult summer reading program. Based on this experience, the Ridgefield Library plans to continue as a meet-up destination for MOOCs as part of its mission to be “an intellectual and cultural center” and to support lifelong learning for all ages.

In Testing Stage, Boopsie Analytics Spots Shift from Apple to Android

Boopsie, the developer of custom mobile apps for libraries, is planning to launch Boopsie Analytics in early 2014. Currently in alpha testing stage, the new web-based platform will help the company’s customers analyze data about a number of different patron behaviors, such as how many queries are sent to a database or catalog from the app each day or each week, what services are being accessed most often via the app, or how many titles are being downloaded from OverDrive or other vendor partners using the app, for example.

Best Poetry 2013, the Extended Version: We’ve Got 12 Top Titles for You

Officially, Library Journal lists five Best Poetry titles in its December issue, along with all the other Bests of the year. But my colleague Annalisa Pesek and I couldn’t stop there. After several rounds of reading and discussion, we found that the following 12 titles sifted out naturally as the works that grabbed our attention [...]

Joseph Boyden, Rivka Galchen, Tom Rachman, Phyllis Rose, Colson Whitehead | Barbara’s Picks, May 2014, Pt. 5

Boyden, Joseph. The Orenda. Knopf. May 2014. 448p. ISBN 9780385350730. $26.95; ebk. ISBN 9780385350747. LITERARY/HISTORICAL FICTION Canadian Boyden has a shelf full of awards for his first two novels, and from what I’ve seen of this arrestingly written new work, soon he’ll have more. When his guides flee the rampaging Iroquois, Jesuit missionary Christophe finds [...]

Aczel on Science and Religion, Hadlow on King George III, Jessye Norman on Her Life, &amp; More | Nonfiction Previews, May 2014, Pt. 5

Aczel, Amir. Why Science Does Not Disprove God. Morrow. Apr. 2014. 288p. ISBN 9780062230591. $27.99. SCIENCE/RELIGION Aczel, the award-winning author of Fermat’s Last Theorem and recipient of a doctoral degree in mathematics from Berkeley, profoundly disagrees with the decree by the so-called New Atheists that modern breakthroughs in science prove that there is no God. [...]

Tennessee: Williamson County Public Library Prepares to Launch Book Publishing Arm

From The Tennessean: The library is one of the first in the country to offer publishing services and launches Sunday with a book signing event for its first book – a children’s book written by library staff. “We’re very excited about this,” said Dolores Greenwald, library director. “Libraries are redefining themselves like publishing, like newspapers. [...]

Video Reviews | December 2013

Reviews of The Horses of McBride, David Starkey’s Music & Monarchy, and BAM150, plus a full list of Video reviews from the December 2013 issue.

Notes from Some Small Islands | Office Hours

I was honored to give one of the keynote addresses at the 2013 Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) conference. There, I met many New Zealand LIS professionals and got a glimpse of how they work. I also became intimately acquainted with the integration of Maori culture into New Zealander LIS professionals’ lives. The Maori are the original citizens of the two islands.

Xpress Reviews: Nonfiction | First Look at New Books, December 6, 2013

A multifaceted view of the dandy, lovers of Anchorman may flock to this work, Chekhov's insights can be tiring, a veteran wine writer divulges more secrets, Correspondence between Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud, Fuchs rambles (sometimes escaping) from Mayan and Mixtec barrios, memoir from Gilden camping in the USSR, poets' Deep Gossip, Prager on how to negotiate a fare on auto rickshaws and taxis, Carter's Swann's Way is an unprecedented and laudable intellectual feat, why van Gogh was repetitious, essential Rebeck plays, Shapiro's perils and pleasures, New York gets a "Big City Food Biography," Auerbach reintroduced, Weegee for all collections

Madison Central Library To Host Local Public Access Channel

Madison, Wisconsin’s struggling public access TV station, WYOU, has a new lease on life, courtesy Madison Public Library. The station, which has been limping along since a 2010 state law cut its funding, has been welcomed into the new Madison Central Library branch. Library staff and station volunteers described the new partnership as a win-win situation that lets the station eliminate its rent costs and take advantage of the library’s media lab and equipment, while the library gets a batch of potential new volunteers and media teachers with years of experience, and the chance to experiment with serving as an incubator for community-produced media.

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