- Loud Debate Rages Over N.Y. Library's Quiet Stacks
- Shh! Scholars Fight Over Library Plan (more on NYPL renovation plans)
- Editors With Ethics
- One Culture. Computationally Intensive Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Report on the Experiences of First Respondents to the Digging Into Data Challenge
- Disintermediating preservation
- Amazon’s markup of digital delivery to indie authors is ~129,000%
- What's Right With Publishing
- Business Schools: Who Are Your Competitors?
- Howard Rheingold on how the five web literacies are becoming essential survival skills
- An Open Letter to the Guys Who Told Me They Want to See Lara Croft Get Raped
- How Amazon Saved My Life (author's perspective on ebooks biz)
- The business community to the rescue of the research community
- Roy Tennant’s Wake-Up Call to Academic Librarians
- End the macho culture that turns women off science
- Scholars are quickly moving toward a universe of web-native communication
- UC Berkeley's libraries next chapter may be cuts
- Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover for First Time in U.S.
- Selling direct will become an essential capability for publishers to have
- Tracking research into practice: Are nurses on twitter a good case study?
- The problem of collegiality: Fostering dissent, diversity and academic freedom.
- FUCK THE CLOUD
- Open access to research is inevitable, says Nature editor-in-chief
- Libraries Are Not The Same as Manga Scanlation Sites: 4 Reasons Why Reading Manga From a Library Isn't Piracy
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Via a mailing list, the Top 1000 Books in the US, ranked in order of library holdings. The Top 25 (after the cut):
As is occasionally my habit when a big story breaks, I have gathered together all the relevant documents I could find concerning the recent controversy about the Canadian Conservative government's recent consolidation of the libraries at their Department of Fisheries & Oceans.
7 Things Librarians Are Tired of Hearing
Library without books debuts at Florida’s newest college
Thanks to Mark Spicer for bringing this item to my attention. Note that the site I'm linking to sells printer cartridges, but still has some cool content.