This week's episode brings an interview with Jessamyn West as well as a commentary by the program's audio engineer under the heading of ''Patron Perspective''. Related links: Jessamyn West's post: On Fact Checking and Sarah Palin and Book BanningJessamyn West's post: Sarah Palin, VP nomineeWorldcat.org holdings of the Piers Anthony book cited ...

If you need access to ebooks for whatever reason there are a good few sites that you can use. Here's a few that iLibrarian has recently mentioned. 20 Best Websites To Download Free EBooks with screenshots and brief commentary. Online...

BookMooch lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want. Every time you give someone a book, you earn a point and can get any book you want from anyone else at BookMooch. You receive a tenth of a point for every book you make available on BookMooch, [...]

If you're anything like me, you go to a lot of conferences, and get given the little canvas bags to carry all the blurb around in. Very useful on the day, yet when you bring them home there's little use for them, but you can't bring yourself to chuck them away. I've found a use for them - as helpful bedside book bags! I can't recall exactly where ...

There has been a rush of article added to my Writings about e-book publishing, 2008 over the last 5 or 6 weeks. So much so, that it is already approaching the length of last year's page! The last item to be added, an article by Laura Dawson in Book Business, comes from a journal newly available in electronic mode (to which you must subscribe, ...

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The hysteria over the proposed age banding system shows no sign of stopping yet. Indeed, quite the opposite - the hysteria continues, getting shriller every day. According to the Guardian, age banding will lead to a two tier system, where the more well known authors will be able to dictate to their publishers, while the less popular ones will have ...

Since the CILIPS screening of the Hollywood Librarian, we’ve been somewhat preoccupied with the portrayal of libraries and librarians in TV and film. The most recent two-part instalment of Doctor Who, Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead (Series 4, Episodes 8 and 9), were therefore an absolute treat. The Doctor and current [...]

I often write about reading in this blog; it is a fairly natural - even logical - progression or collocation for anyone thinking about information, books or libraries. In Is Google Making Us Stupid, Nicholas Carr wonders if - like the Italian humanist Hieronimo Squarciafico [who, after Gutenberg's printing press] worried that the easy availability ...