Library Link of the Day
February 2013
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- From Timbuktu, Reports That Most Manuscripts Were Saved [NPR]
- How MIT Can Honor Aaron Swartz [Slate]
- Bring back shushing librarians [Salon]
- Digital Comics Are Getting Cheaper [Publishers Weekly]
- Free pole dancing classes at library 'great success' with readers [STV]
- Prison and Libraries: Public Service Inside and Out [Library Journal]
- Publishers and Library Groups Spar in Appeal to Ruling on Electronic Course Reserves [The Chronicle of Higher Education]
- Researchers opt to limit uses of open-access publications [Nature]
- DOJ Settles With Macmillan in E-Books Case [Fox Business]
- Tech, telecom giants take sides as FCC proposes large public WiFi networks [The Washington Post]
- The new library of Babel? Borges, digitisation, and the myth of the universal library [First Monday]
- Price of a Bad Review [Inside Higher Ed]
- A Defense of Comic Sans [Vsauce]
- Dispensing Computers [Inside Higher Ed]
- Obama's speech highlights rise of 3-D printing [CNN]
- Bestselling author riles many, calling libraries 'no longer relevant' [The Christian Science Monitor]
- Subjective Impressions Do Not Mirror Online Reading Effort: Concurrent EEG-Eyetracking Evidence from the Reading of Books and Digital Media [PLOS ONE]
- Librarians and Lawyers [Inside Higher Ed]
- Library thefts cost Austin more than $1 million in five years [Austin American-Statesman]
- How librarians can help widen access to research – live chat round-up [The Guardian]
- 10 Great Technology Initiatives for Your Library [American Libraries]
- William Kamkwamba: How I built a windmill [TED]
- Three indie bookstores file lawsuit against Amazon and Big Six publishers [The Christian Science Monitor]
- Which Q&A App Sucks The Least? [ReadWrite]
- Disruptions: On the Fast Track to Routine 3-D Printing [The New York Times]
- U.S. Takes Huge Step Forward in Opening Access to Publicly Funded Research [Information Today]
- Debunking the Bestseller [Leapfrogging]
- Hudson, Wis.-based Little Free Library heading to Africa [St. Paul Pioneer Press]
These links are not updated for accuracy; older links may be dead.
