Stop the Presses!

Last month a new study commissioned by the British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) issued one of those “Duh!” reports. The new study (available here http://www. bl.uk/news/pdf/googlegen.pdf) found that the “Google Generation,” or those brought up by computer wolves, is not very Web-literate.

A Call to Arms

This month I’m using my column to issue a call to arms. No, it isn’t a call to arms for war, though it is going to be battle. It is a call to professional librarians who are interested in their jobs lasting more than a few more years. That sounds a bit hysterical but I don’t mean for it to. Yet is it hyperbolic? I don’t think so. We need to rethink, recast, redefine, and refresh our professional métier. I think the last twenty-four months make it imperative that we do so now

Living on the Fringe

Just when you thought the news could not get any worse for libraries, a new twist emerges on an old theme. When I saw the headline, I couldn't help clicking: “Books Are Becoming the Fringe Media.”

Libraries in the Cyberage, Part IV

Is the book dead? Are libraries obsolete? Did the Internet murder both?

Bordering on Disaster?

Borders, the bookstore, provides us with an instructive case study regarding our collective futures. While Amazon and Barnes & Noble made changes that both streamlined and changed their services, Borders followed the “business as usual” model. That led to Chapter 11, the closing of nearly a third of their stores, and a complete restructuring of all that’s left. Not many industry analysts think even this will be enough to keep the company afloat.

Libraries in the Cyberage, Part III

The roots of librarianship have been sorely shaken by the Internet, but to what extent and how much remains to be seen.

Istorii͡a Bokhary ili Transoksanii s drevni͡eĭshikh vremen do nastoi͡ashchago : po vostochnym obnarodovannym i neobnarodovannym rukopisnym istoricheskim istochnikam /

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A series of ornamental timber gables : from existing examples in England and France, of the sixteenth century /

Plates lithographed by C. Maguire and printed by C. or J. Graf; one plate "drawn on stone by H. C. Maguire."

Deuda publica del Uruguay. Debates en el Senado. Discursos del Señor ministro de hacienda Dr. D. Carlos Maria Ramirez y réplicas del senador por la Florida Dr. D. Angel Floro Costa.

Mode of access: Internet.

Transportation : current literature.

Mode of access: Internet.

La symphonie fantastique de Hector Berlioz. Essai sur l'expression de la musique instrumentale,

Mode of access: Internet.

Les proportions du corps humain = De proportien van het menschlyk ligchaam /

Signatures: A-B⁴. (B4v blank)

Voyage au pays des peintres : Salon de 1877 : avec une eau-forte de M. Courtry d'apres "Le soir" de Henner, et des dessins autographes de MM. Bastien-Lepage ... /

"Troisième année."

Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Kleve /

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