I am sure you have all read the mass of news on Amazon’s Kindle. Makes me feel secure that books will be here for a long time.

As Catherine Sheldrick Ross and others have said, reading is a social activity. Books are borrowed, lent, shared, resold and bought second hand. They are picked up […]

Leave it to the Annoyed Librarian to take everything I was thinking about “We Know What Library 2.0 Is and Is Not” and say it much more…. Annoyingly (in a wonderful way).

Just to let you know, Library Five-0 is all about technology:

Some of the twopointopians claim that Library 2.0 isn’t just about technology, that it’s […]

Updating my post on Michael Casey and Laura Savastinuk’s recent statement on Library 2.0. A blog I have just discovered, the Proletarian Librarian (adding another to The ‘X’ Librarian trend), has some comments on the Library 2.0 post as well.

An insightful addition to the discussion:

I’m all for finding out what our users want and […]

Great little article by Anthony Grafton, recounting the history of reading, publishing and organizing books, ending with Google and other smaller efforts to digitize books. Conclusion:

Sit in your local coffee shop, and your laptop can tell you a lot. If you want deeper, more local knowledge, you will have to take the narrower path […]