Includes info on why Smashwords killed its in-house Library Direct in favor of playing with OverDrive. *sigh* Libraries are so shortsighted.

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I've often found myself exploring a library's map room or thumbing through old Census records while taking study breaks. I was often surprised how I could become engrossed with old data. Some of th...

On Friday the 13th, I gave the morning keynote at the Online Northwest Conference  in Corvallis, OR. Thanks so much to the organization for ...

I’m here in Washington, DC for the Coalition for Networked Information’s 2014 fall membership meeting. CNI meetings are typically attended by heads of libraries and heads of library or …

In my last column I discussed the various problems that I have with ebooks for academic libraries. Now I’d like to lay out what I want from library ebooks and what it would take for me to switch from print to electronic as the preferred format for books.

Here is a partial list of various ways I can think of to expose information about library patrons and their search and reading history by use (and misuse) of software used or recommended by librari…

In late June, a minor brouhaha erupted when the library at the University of Arkansas suspended reporters from the Washington Free Beacon, an online newspaper, from using its special collections. The reason given by library administrators was that on multiple occasions the newspaper's reporters had published content from those collections without asking permission, as library policy requires. Much has been made in the right-wing press about the politics supposedly surrounding this conflict. I want to focus on a different issue: the practice of making patrons request library permission before republishing content drawn from documents in our special collections.

On retaining library data for analysis.

Wow. Missouri is schooling the rest of the US!

For most of New York City, two companies, Time Warner and Verizon, provide broadband access at an annual cost of close to $1,000 per home. But for many houses, that means no access at all.