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Public Libraries & E-Book Collections – Exactly Who Is This Serving?
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“We’re very ‘Green’ here. The library’s e-book collection is actually powered by incinerating all those books behind you.” |
I look around my desk at work and I tick off all the technology I have in front of me.
- Desktop PC w/side-by-side monitors … check
- smart phone … check
- iPad … check
- e-book reader … check
- laptop
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Seems the Kindle Doesn't Like Public Library Books
If you like downloading e-books from the public library, it looks like you’re going to need to buy a Barnes & Noble Nook or a Sony E-Reader to do it. According to Vince Horiuchi of the Salt Lake City Tribune, the Amazon Kindle doesn’t support the digital rights management (DRM) files that public libraries…
Burning 1500 Books… But In A 'Green' Way…
Comedian Daniel Tosh holds his book burnings every Tuesday, but thought that he needs to be “greener” in his desire to rid the world of books and push people back to watching his show on Comedy Central.
He also suggests a way that your local governments could make a little money back. Since we now…
Information Convergence
Over ten years ago we, in IT, talked about convergence. Back then, convergence often referred to the merging of data and telephone infrastructures, and when first introduced, this idea was taboo (this
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Legacy Thinking – If the Catalog is Your Only Tool, Everything Looks Like a MARC Record
I had lunch yesterday with a some folks from outside the legal industry where we discussed issues of making existing knowledge more readily available to others within our companies. I was taking my own advice and discussing the issues of libraries and knowledge management with those outside of law firms to see if there are…

Are Law Librarians Too Introverted?
This Isn't Your Daddy's Law Library! – Time For a Law Library Revolution!
I initially put this as a comment on yesterday’s post of “Hey Library! You’re Now in the Marketing Department!!“, but thought it actually deserves its own posting.
I’ve had some “off-line” conversations with other law librarians at big firms and there is a question that has been raised whether the people that have…
Hey Library!! You're Now In the Marketing Department!!
I written before that I think the Library department and the Marketing departments work very well together. However, apparently the folks over at Morrison Foerster (MoFo) have taken my advice further than even I would have imagined. Yesterday at the Law Marketing Association conference, MoFo new CMO, Joe Calve, discussed the topic of increasing…
Ark Conference Review: Lawyers -Westlaw/Lexis, maybe; Google, definitely!
I attended a wonderful conference in New York yesterday (and am subsequently writing this post from LaGuardia airport during a snowstorm and hoping to make it back to Houston today.) The Ark Group/Managing Partner Magazine’s 4th Annual “Best Practices & Management Strategies for Law Firm Library & Information Service Centers” focused on topics ranging from Libraries getting…