Picture the following diverse scenarios: A librarian in Utah develops and shares a plugin for an open source repository system that is reused by libraries in three other states; a curator in New York ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

It’s a measure of how key comics and graphic novels are to library collections that there is a digital platform solely devoted to the format. Comics Plus, powered by LibraryPass, primarily serves ...

More than half (57 percent) of GB adults disagree that digital services are an adequate replacement for traditional libraries, according to a survey conducted by the University of Strathclyde. The ...

Public libraries have increasingly loaned digital content in the past ten years. Worldwide, libraries that do business with Overdrive loaned out 739 million audiobooks, e-books, and digital magazines ...

Libraries and their digital offerings are one of the most overlooked segments of the ebook industry. Hoopla, one of the digital lending services allowing libraries to offer ebooks and other digital ...

Chennai: Extending online access to books and journals to upgrading reading halls into co-working spaces and introducing digital membership cards, the school education department is planning a digital ...

In September, a federal appeals court dealt a major blow to the Internet Archive—one of the largest online repositories of free books, media, and software—in a copyright case with significant ...

State technology leaders have a multibillion-dollar opportunity right now to end the digital divide as we know it. With the first installment of federal deployment and digital equity planning funds in ...

The tools used by librarians in their daily work have changed vastly during recent years. Today, hardly any library is equipped exactly as it was only a few years ago. In addition to traditional means ...