Time to “move some dialog with these publishers forward,” said ALA President Molly Raphael at the Working Group on Digital Content and Libraries meeting.
ALA Midwinter 2012: ALA To Meet With Top Executives of Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and Penguin on Ebook Lending
January 22, 2012 By 7 Comments
ALA Midwinter 2012 Photoset: LJ and Friends Celebrate Luis Herrera, 2012 Librarian of the Year
January 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A few photos from a dinner honoring Herrera on Friday, January 20, at the start of the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Dallas, TX.
ALA Midwinter 2012: Occupy Wall St. Librarians Wonder, When Did Sharing Become a Revolutionary Act?
January 21, 2012 By 3 Comments
“How have we come to a place where the sharing of books, and the gathering and disseminating of knowledge has come to be such a revolutionary act—one that brought the full force of the militarized New York police department down upon it?” asked an OWS librarian. “I think the reason is that today we see an all-out assault on what libraries stand for and what they do.”
ALA Midwinter 2012: Adding Kindle Compatibility Expanded OverDrive’s U.S. Library Network by 36 Percent
January 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
OverDrive shared some additional numbers with LJ on Friday after the opening of the exhibition hall at the ALA Midwinter Conference in Dallas, demonstrating the draw of Kindle ebook availability.
ALA Midwinter 2012: Better World Books and Ingram Team Up to Create Library Revenue
January 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Program turns old books with low circulation into money that can buy new content.at Ingram.
ALA Midwinter 2012: EBSCO to Fully Integrate A-Z Listing Service and Link Resolver to Discovery Service
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Company also makes available fifth series from American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection
ALA Midwinter 2012: Gluejar to Make Soft Launch of Website at ALA Midwinter
January 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The innovative project is an attempt to come up with a working business model that would create widespread, unencumbered access to ebooks, and bridge the differences between rights holders and readers (including library patrons).
ALA Midwinter 2012: ALA Reports Slight Dip in Advance Registration for Midwinter
January 16, 2012 By 1 Comment
2012 ALA Midwinter Coupons
January 11, 2012 By 2 Comments
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ALA Midwinter 2012 Preview: Occupy ALA!
December 15, 2011 By 2 Comments
The effort to attract members to the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting continues. It is a tough job in this economy, and especially when the conference is held in Dallas, not every librarian’s favorite destination. Still, publishers have filled the Midwinter program with authors galore and ALA has scheduled the usual load of committee and unit sessions, many of which look suspiciously like programs.
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