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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Library Book makes a perfect companion to Palaces for the People. What we very much need is a book as good as The Library Book and Palaces for the People to be written about academic libraries and ...