Archive for the ‘Digitization’ Category

September 29, 2010 1

New Yorker iPad App

By in Apple, Digitization, iPad, Librarianship, Library, Periodicals, Personal, Reading, Technology, The New Yorker, Updates

After months of patiently waiting and hoping… The New Yorker iPad app has finally arrived! It even includes a great intro video:

September 28, 2010 2

How to Open a New Book

By in Books, Culture, Digital Citizenship, Digital Libraries, Digitization, Library, Reading

This has been floating around the internet for a while, and I’d like to share with you some thoughts about the image and why it has such interest now. First, though, here’s the graphic:

June 18, 2010 0

Death of the Inscription?

By in Digital Libraries, Digitization, Librarianship, Library

On Wednesday, I was reading this Times article:Book Inscriptions Reflect Personal Histories, by Susan DominusIn the article, Dominus highlights the idea that the inscription could go away if our society completely embraces digital books, and abandons physical books. She was thinking specifically about personal inscriptions – when one writes a note to a friend on [...]

June 3, 2010 0

Yale Library Studies

By in Digital Libraries, Digitization, Librarianship, Library, Library Design

Among the books I read last month, I completed the annual issue of Yale Library Studies. As it dealt with library design and architecture, my interest was especially piqued to read the issue, and I was not disappointed. Wonderfully illustrated, with many great articles, the issue had a great deal to offer. Over the coming [...]

May 6, 2010 0

Yale Library Studies

By in Books, Digital Libraries, Digitization, Librarianship, Library, Library Design, Reading

Reader,Thanks for bearing with me – the end of the semester has passed, and my work is all turned in. It’s nice to get positive feedback on tasks which required a great deal of work. More on that later.For now, I want to share with you that I am reading the 2009 issue of Yale [...]

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