NetLibrary, which calls itself “the world’s premier provider of electronic books,” markets its digitized books primarily through academic, public, and corporate libraries. The three-year-old ...

Walk into an academic library on any given day and you’ll find meals, snacks, drinks, and conversations everywhere. This trend isn’t going away and must be considered in the planning of a re-imagined ...

The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen. Published in November 2021. The Library: A Fragile History is ambitious in its scope and detail-oriented in its execution.

But, he says, “I’ve never used an old-fashioned copy machine on campus.” Entrepreneurs in the Library. At Brooklyn College, part of the CUNY system, the switch from copiers to scanners led to an ...

Library Renovation: On Becoming an Academic Commons. A Q&A with Nancy Allen, Dean and Director, Anderson Academic Commons, University of Denver. By Mary Grush; 06/18/14; Through a major interior ...

A new study found that the academic book vendor GOBI Library Solutions provides 68.7 percent of print book sales and 86.4 percent of ebook sales to academic libraries. Amazon's a distant second ...

Imagine a library that is not only bookless but is not necessarily tied to a building, one that takes its personnel and services to patrons rather than expecting them to come to it. Two projects ...