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McGraw-Hill Forges Partnership with Follett to Offer EBook Content to K-12...
On June 24, McGraw-Hill Professional, a leading global publisher of education and professional content, announced a partnership with Follett to further expand availability of its ebook titles to K-12...
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Junior Library Guild To Roll Out New EBook Service For Libraries| ALA 2014
On June 26, at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Las Vegas (June 26–July 1), Junior Library Guild (JLG) will release a new ebook product, JLG ebooks, for libraries across the...
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Too Soon for Technology?: The latest on digital use by preschoolers
Illustration by Francisco Caceres More on digital use: In Praise of Print It’s been a long time since libraries were paper-only domains. Computers, from laptops to tablets, and digital content are...
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Eight Reasons Why Print Trumps Digital for Reading
Cover story: Too Soon for Technology? Given the focus on ebooks these days, could old-fashioned print books provide a superior reading experience? Actually, yes—especially for young children whose...
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Authors John Green and James Patterson Stuck in Midst of Ongoing Battle of...
In the ongoing battle between Amazon and Hachette Book Group over renegotiating the contract for book sales and profit share, the two sides have yet to have come to agreement. Amazon has been publicly...
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New ALA Report Examines Licensing Model for EBooks in School Libraries
Consumers are familiar with downloading ebooks—they just click and buy. For libraries? It’s a very different story. A new report from the American Library Association (ALA) takes a close look at the...
View ArticleAmazon Launches Kindle Unlimited Ebook Subscription Service
We posted some extended comments focusing on what this and other ebook subscription services might mean for the library community the other day when news of Kindle Unlimited leaked. We’ve included some...
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Librarians, Media React to Launch of Kindle Unlimited
In a long-expected move, Amazon on July 18 announced the launch of Kindle Unlimited, a new subscription service that will give users unlimited access to a selection of 600,000 ebooks and more than...
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Amazon Reveals Sticking Points with Hachette
On Amazon’s Kindle forum dated July 29, the online retail behemoth revealed details of the sticking points with the Hachette Book Group that are contributing to the two’s very public battle over profit...
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Missouri Extends Protection of Library Records Data to Digital Materials
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon. Missouri library patrons can now rest assured that their library records for checkout of digital materials will remain private. The Missouri State Legislature introduced...
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California Administrator Creates Digital Stopgap After School Librarian Cuts
Jay Greenlinger All photos courtesy of Pleasant Valley School District Jay Greenlinger knew there was little he could do to restore the school librarian positions that had been cut from his district....
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Beeline Reading Challenge Kickstarts Student Independent Reading
Credit: Sjenner13/iStock Out-of-school reading habits of students have shown that even 15 minutes a day of independent reading can expose students to more than a million words of text in a year...
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Ebooks Enhance Development of the Whole Child | Up for Debate
Marianne Martens Pete is sitting at his desk when his teacher says, ‘Come on, Pete down that hall to a room with books on every wall.’ Where is Pete going? The library! Does it matter whether Pete the...
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The Book Is Far Superior to the Ebook for Early Literacy | Up for Debate
I agree with Annie Murphy Paul’s July article in School Library Journal, “Eight Reasons Why Print Trumps Digital for Reading,” and here are some additional points she did not include: Support for...
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Streamline Your Workflow: Five Time-Saving Tips
It’s back to school and there’s so much to do. If you had more time, how would you spend it? Developing better lessons, talking with students, or collaborating with colleagues? Maybe you’d just relax...
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JukePop Opens Kickstarter to Get Indie Ebooks into Libraries
Expanding ebook access at public libraries has been, well, an ongoing process. But one site is aiming to have an impact, giving libraries a chance to offer their patrons digital titles by independent...
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Queens Library Develops Innovative New Tablet Platform Using Superstorm Sandy...
When superstorm Sandy hit the east coast in October 2012, the Queens Library (QL) in New York was among many northeastern library systems affected. QL persevered, continuing to offer crucial services...
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Librarians, IT Experts Respond to Adobe Spying Accusations
Adobe this week confirmed reports that it has been logging data on the reading activity of people who use the free Adobe Digital Editions service, and that the company has been transmitting those logs...
View ArticleThink Like a Futurist | Project Advocacy
Being a librarian today requires being a futurist. That means embracing a growth mind-set and seeing libraries as developing enterprises, not fixed ones. It means constantly reexamining library...
View ArticleAdobe’s Lax Security Raises Concerns About Student Privacy
Privacy around what students read, along with other personal data, may be at risk due to software giant Adobe’s transmission of the data without encryption. Student rights are protected under the...
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