The Party King of Librarianship Hits the Campaign Trail

Feb 27, 2015 | News

Even as librarians rewrite the definition of what makes for a library in the 21st century, they are also redrafting their job descriptions. Along with the academic degrees and professional training, librarians in 2015 should know how to party—at least if they choose...

Cold Storage

Feb 22, 2015 | Podcasts

In ancient Sumer, more than 4,500 years ago, the first libraries were archives of clay tablets etched with cuneiform script.  In our own time, a library may contain not only printed books and journals, but also audio and visual recordings in analog and digital form. ...

Friends Of Books Moving On

Feb 20, 2015 | News

In publishing circles, the best friend a book can have is someone who will talk about it – a bookseller, for instance, as well as a member of the media. With newspapers giving up on book reviews, television and radio hosts have taken up the slack – much to the relief...

The Pragmatic Text Miner

Feb 18, 2015 | Podcasts

How quickly do you read?  According to results of an online speed reading test by Staples, the office supplies company, the average senior executive reads 575 words per minutes, while the average college professor clocks in at 675.  The rest of us manage only less...

Pursuit of Freelancing Happiness

Feb 15, 2015 | Podcasts

“Independent writers” is a phrase easily mistaken for a redundancy. After all, writers by their nature value independent thinking and they treasure their independence. Virginia Wolff wasn’t the first or the last author to want a room of one’s own. In the era of...

Europe’s Libraries Ready to Save Publishers

Feb 13, 2015 | News

Europeans love their bookstores, and European legislators help to keep it that way with laws across several countries that equalize the cost of print and digital editions. While one result of such legal price-fixing is that physical bookstores will survive,...

Building Story in the Physical World

Feb 8, 2015 | Events

On Friday, in an opening keynote address to the PubWest 2015 Conference, Joe Rohde, creative executive, Walt Disney Imagineering made a case that narrative lies at the center of every human endeavor, not only publishing and other media. “Narrative is human nature. It...

Heading to Asheville

Feb 6, 2015 | News

Asheville, North Carolina – renowned for its arts community and often cited as one of the happiest places in the US – welcomes five hundred booksellers and a record number of publishers and their authors early next week for the 10th anniversary of the American...

Making Open Access Work

Feb 4, 2015 | Copyright

For scholarly and scientific publishing, business models are shifting and changing dramatically. Research funding organizations primarily in the UK and US, but elsewhere in Europe and Asia as well, increasingly require unfettered access for the public to the research...

Mobile Strategies for Digital Publishing

Feb 1, 2015 | Digital Transformation, News

It wasn’t so long ago that ‘mobile’ meant the kind of kinetic sculpture that artist Alexander Calder made his trademark.  In 2015, of course, ‘mobile’ is shorthand for a host of handheld wireless technologies that make it possible to live our lives in two worlds...