More than 1,000 cultural organisations — including the British Library, the European Commission, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and the Louvre — are contributing material to Europeana, the European online library: “Internet users will be able to access more than two million books, maps, recordings, photographs, archive documents, paintings and films. ” More at BBC today, [...]
Tagged digital_library, europeana, online_libraryThe Fiction-L discussion list came up with these social networking sites that are useful for readers advisory — which means for finding books that might interest you, and for sharing books and the enjoyment of reading them with others.
Social LIbraries
aNobii (from Latin for ‘bookworm’): List books, share thoughts, meet People. Links to Amazon details and [...]
Blake Carver’s launched a new website, LISWire, featuring up-to-the-minute press releases, announcements, and other news from all kinds of libraries. You can subscribe to the main feed via RSS, or subscribe to one of more topics here. There’s also an email option.
Many e-handouts from the Public Library Association meeting that wrapped up last week, most in PDF or .doc format. Topics include Reaching Out to the LGBT Community; Creating Musical Storytimes to Encourage Emergent Literacy; Creating Dynamic Library Atmospheres; The Digital Revolution and Libraries - What’s Next?; Public Libraries as Community Problem Solvers ; Market Driven [...]
Contra Costa County Library in California is getting ATMs that dispense library books in four locations around the county, with the first in a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station. The machines hold from 270-400 books. Patrons select books from a list of genres, and the machine authenticates their library card and dispenses the chosen [...]
Two articles on the related topic of libraries and access to knowledge:
From The Independent, Michael Savage asks “The Big Question: Does the decline in book lending spell the end for the public library?” He notes that figures just published show that the British “are taking out fewer books from libraries than we were 10 years [...]
Good idea! The Bensenville Community Public Library (IL) is using its blog to post new booklists each week (author and title only), as well as entries for ‘author of the week,’ ‘book of the week,’ and some discussion of books.
Recent booklist topics: urban fantasy; apocalyptic stories; fiction about knitting, quilting and embroidery; mysteries that [...]