Digital Library

SFWA Finally Notices Internet Archive’s Decade Old Open Library, Decides It’s Piracy

9 January, 2018 // 21 Comments

I like to stay on top of relevant news and development in the publishing industry, but sometimes I might miss a story and only find out weeks or months later. I used to kick myself for missing stuff, [Read More ...]

Hoopla Adds Marvel Graphic Novels and Comics

9 December, 2017 // 0 Comments

Hoopla offers a subscription service to libraries where a library can pay based on how many titles are used by patrons. It's a "pay-per-use" type of service which includes movies, ebooks, and now [Read More ...]

Texas School District Converts Buses into Rolling Libraries

24 August, 2017 // 2 Comments

The Bexar County, Texas, Bibliotech library system may not have pioneered the idea of an all-digital library but it has become the poster child for the idea. Bibliotech has opened multiple digital [Read More ...]

HarperCollins’ Audiobooks Now Available Though bibliotheca’s cloudLibrary

8 August, 2017 // 1 Comment

Back in June HarperCollins was one of several major publishers that started distributing their ebooks and audobooks to libraries through pay-per-use services like Freading. Now the publisher is [Read More ...]

Jisc Now Offers Digital Textbooks

7 August, 2017 // 2 Comments

Digital library vendor Jisc has found a back door to shove institutional- or site-licensed digital textbooks through. Last week Jisc announced a partnership with Bibliotech, the next doomed digital [Read More ...]

BiblioTech’s Newest Bookless Library Will Also be the Largest

15 March, 2017 // 1 Comment

Since 2013 Bexar County's Bibliotech digital library has opened two local branches as well as kiosks in a hospital, bus terminal, and on local military bases. San Antonio Express News reports that [Read More ...]

Croatia Launches Free Digital Reading Zone

28 December, 2016 // 2 Comments

In what was being inaccurately described as being as the first of its kind, earlier this month Croatia established an open digital library: Croatia, what is now an open digital library, is the first [Read More ...]

Bibliotech Digital Public Library Sets up Shop in a Hospital

19 October, 2016 // 2 Comments

When Bexar County opened its all-digital public library branch, Bibliotech, in 2014, it capitalized on the lack of space devoted to warehousing books by devoting more space to computer labs, public [Read More ...]

Overdrive Ends Magazine Partnership with B&N Nook

6 October, 2016 // 5 Comments

In February 2015 Overdrive announced that it had struck a deal with B&N to provide the current issues of 1,000 different magazine titles. Libraries could pay a subscription fee and their [Read More ...]

San Antonio Launches Bibliotech Library Kiosks at Area Bus Stations

22 September, 2016 // 2 Comments

Bexar County Public Library got a lot of press coverage several years ago when it opened its book-less Bibliotech library branch, and now it is taking the show on the road. The local ABC station and [Read More ...]

Bexar County to Open Its Third All-Digital BiblioTech Library Branch in 2017

31 March, 2016 // 1 Comment

Bexar County made headlines in 2013 when it became one of the many libraries to open a book-free, all-digital library, but it didn't stop there. Its second all-digital branch opened last year, and [Read More ...]

The Open eBooks Program Brings eBooks to Students Who Need it Most

24 February, 2016 // 5 Comments

eBooks have the potential to bring an unending supply of reading material to those who need it most, but not all schools and public libraries can afford to pay the fees for the commercial platforms. [Read More ...]

Quartz Foresees the End of Library (As We Know It), But Misses the Bigger Picture

25 August, 2015 // 2 Comments

With more and more libraries going bookless in order to free up space for other uses, the form of the modern library is rapidly shifting from a primary focus on warehousing books to better serving [Read More ...]

Toronto Public Library’s Book Vending Machines Are Like a Better Buggy Whip in the Era of Cars

10 August, 2015 // 5 Comments

Teleread tipped me to a new program from Toronto Public Library which won't be going anywhere. It seems the library is thinking about installing book vending machines in Toronto's Union Station. From [Read More ...]

Why College Libraries Are Going Bookless

5 August, 2015 // 9 Comments

We've all read the news stories about this college or that college removing books from their libraries. Stanford was one of the first to go bookless back in 2010, and many more colleges have [Read More ...]

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