What is the latest you have ever returned a library book? I think mine was a whole summer when I was in Jr. High School, because it took that long for me to clean my room and find it. But one mysterious person that checked a couple of books out of the Portland State University … Read more
If you are a reader of a certain age you will remember going to the library and going through stacks of catalog cards looking for a book. You might have learned the dewy decimal system at the same time. Well the bell has tolled, those days are over. Online Computer Library Center, the last company … Read more
I know I talk to my books, especially when a character is not doing what I want them to do. But how about a library where your “books” talk back to you? That is the concept behind the “Human Libraries” where you can go and check out a “book”. This is a volunteer with an … Read more
Dutch public libraries have a copyright exemption for lending paper books. Recently the libraries have questioned if that copyright exemption also included eBooks. If so then the libraries would not have to get permission of the copyright holder to lend eBooks. A great benefit. Currently the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science has decided … Read more