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 ...

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 ...

With edtech, specialized isn’t always better. Technology designed for educators is pushed “as if our ones and zeroes are special,” keynote speaker Clay Shirky told top librarians, publishers and ...

Name the college that has the tallest library in the country and the tallest academic library in the world. It isn’t Harvard. It isn’t Stanford. It’s UMass Amherst.

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Education proposes ending collection of library data from main higher ed database, citing budgetary and workload concerns. Librarians fear much would be lost. The U.S.