Health Information and Libraries Journal, or HILJ, pronounced by the irreverent to rhyme with bilge, is 25 years old. The journal has marked its birthday with a splendid celebratory issue, guest-edited by Andrew Booth, or Andrew Boot, as CILIP's Library...

In the week in which my 'definition' article - Books in a virtual world: The evolution of the e-book and its lexicon - has finally seen the light of day (Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 40 (3): 193-206; and deposited/soon available on E-LIS & CADAIR), it was thrilling to see a post on if:book by Bob Stein in which he distilled ...

I have just been reading a short editorial piece by Patrick Tucker in The Futurist: The 21st Century Writer. It is a reflective piece on Tim O’Reilly’s “Tools of Change” conference, and focusses on publishing in an electronic age. Unsurprisingly. For the serials publisher and the journalist, there is the thought that with half the world reporting ...

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 ...

I do not really like quoting at length in my blog entries, but the article that I am referencing here is such an important article from the house of a major publisher, that I think it is warranted. Sara Lloyd of Pan Macmillan Digital Publishing has written an article linked from the company blog, the digitalist: A book publisher’s manifesto for ...

The UK JISC Scholarly Communications Working Group commissioned a report, delivered recently (March 2008) by Key Perspectives Ltd on Key Concerns within the Scholarly Communications Process (Word doc). The report was asked to produce a ‘big picture’ overview of scholarly communication at the present time, exploring with researchers and other ...

I can't remember a previous year when I have had so many titles listed in the first 4 months. Admittedly, some are blog postings - but there's some interesting debate going on, and as regular visitors will know, I only select the more discoursive or debatable blog posts! If you need to keep up to date with what is happening in the e-book ...

... and we are reminded of this by, e.g. Epublishers Weekly, in their latest post, 30 Benefits of Ebooks. And there are 30, too! Slightly strangely, the Benefits are copyright - © 2008 by Michael Pastore... which presumably means I can only quote 3 here! Most of them are pretty obvious: searchable, portable, update-able, ''defy space'' (I ...

if:book, in ideal ulysses and ideal ulysses, part two, has been listing the possible advantages of a social or wiki version of great works such as those by Joyce or Dostoevsky. These might include a ''thorough word and phrase glossary with a snappy and intuitive mechanism for getting to it directly from the text''; and ''the explanation of ...

The Emerald journal, Program, has produced an issue dedicated to e-books, with several articles about managing e-book collections in UK libraries - case studies, etc. The table of contents for Volume 41, Issue 3 can be found at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/.... As usual all the articles (plus a load of other recently added stuff) can be found on ...