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Creating a Library for the future – Part two!
Recently, I wrote about our new library and how we had tried to create a library for Toorak College that would meet the future needs of our school. There are lots of photos in that post, but most were taken … Continue reading
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Creating a Library for the future
Well, that’s what we hope we’ve done. Created a Library for the future, that is. When we started planning Toorak College’s new Norman Carson Library, we knew this would be a space that had to meet the needs of a … Continue reading
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Aha! Publishers respond to changing trends. But when will we see files borrowed from libraries?
The UK branch of Dorling Kindersley presented this at a sales conference, but decided to release it publicly after the response they received internally. They commissioned Khaki films to produce it and you can read about the process on the … Continue reading
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Seth Godin on libraries – take heed
Seth Godin has written a brief, but pretty accurate in my view, summation of the future of libraries. I’ll post it in it’s entirity here, but make sure you start reading Seth. I do nearly every day. The future of … Continue reading
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“Books, newspapers face battle in dawn of digital revolution”. So says the Geelong Advertiser.
Yesterday I posted about the Geelong Advertiser and the interview I conducted with them after they contacted me via Twitter. At that stage I’d searched the site but couldn’t find any article referencing my name. Today I received this tweet from John Pearce; … Continue reading
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The future of libraries, continued….
I’m finding it harder and harder to get to my RSS feeds in my Google Reader. I’ve no doubt this is in large part due to Twitter consumption. The temptation is always there to just check in to see what’s … Continue reading
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Google and the Future of Books – Robert Darnton’s must read article
Image by clarissa~ via Flickr If you are at all interested in the future of books and the digitising of collections you must read Robert Darnton‘s article ‘Google and the Future of Books’ … Continue reading
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The Alexandrine Dilemma – Mark Pesce’s message for Librarians.
I’ve just finished reading Mark Pesce‘s latest post, The Alexandrine Dilemma, his keynote for the New Librarians Symposium that he delivered on Friday. As I was reading I was nodding my head in agreement. In it, he identifies the issues facing … Continue reading
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