Books & Reading
Hoopla, one of the digital lending services allowing libraries to offer ebooks and other digital content, has helped drive the unassuming library ebook to success in over 1,600 public library systems. Here’s how.
Source: How Digital Lending Service Hoopla Brings Libraries Into The Internet Era
OCLC introduces Wise, the first community engagement system for U.S. public libraries.
Editor’s Note: See the site at https://www.oclc.org/en/wise.html
Source: New OCLC Wise: Designed around people, driven by data
Around the world, tiny towns have made bookstores their speciality.
The long read: Male art is epic, universal, and profoundly meaningful. Women’s creations are domestic, emotional and trivial. How did we learn to misread stories so badly?
Source: The male glance: how we fail to take women’s stories seriously | News | The Guardian
When an online news outlet goes out of business, its archives can disappear as well. The new battle over journalism’s digital legacy.
A recent visit changes my perception of library behavior and purpose.
Source: An unquiet realization about libraries – CSMonitor.com
