Kabul Intercontinental 1973

Kabul Intercontinental, 1973Another weekly image from the family archive. Click on it to make it larger.The hotel on a hill. We visited once back in the early 1970s when all was relatively calm. Sad news this week that the hotel was the site of a terrorist attack.More from the trip that year on flic...

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ALA Speech Parallel Universe: Monographs don't support the library mission.

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PEW Research suggests surge in e-Reader purchases

A new research report from PEW suggests that e-Reader growth has surged since late last year (PEW):The share of adults in the United States who own an e-book reader doubled to 12% in May, 2011 from 6% in November 2010. E-readers, such as a Kindle or Nook, are portable devices designed to allow readers to...

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MediaWeek (V4, N26): Books In Print, Journal Publishing, Joyce, Education and Technology, Area 51 and more.

Sam Andersen in the NY Times is stopped cold by an actual book (NYT): The book was the The World Almanac and Book of Facts, an iconic yellow slab of lists and stats and graphs that has been, for the last century or so, holy scripture to the culture’s various ministers of information: journalists, writers of elementary-school reports, know-it-all uncles, “Jeopardy!” contestants. It promises to...

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The Gap Between Ka Moa o Pele and Halali'i: Haleakala Crater

The Gap Between Ka Moa o Pele and Halali'i: Haleakala CraterAnother weekly image from the family archive. Click on it to make it larger.It is almost impossible to describe the sheer extent of the Haleakala Crater that tops off the Hawaiian island of Maui. This image is taken virtually in the center of the...

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Meeting Wenger of Union Square Ventures: Welcome to the Net Natives

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Amplified Version of Kerouac's On The Road

Penguin releases "amplified iPad version" of Kerouac's On The Road (Apple Store) and the title is covered by the NY Times Paper Cuts blog:The “amplified edition” of “On the Road,” released today by Penguin Classics, certainly comes tricked out with more fancy bells and whistles than a BMW M5. It includes the full text of the novel, of course, with expandable marginal notes giving historical and...

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British Library Signs with Google to Digitize 250,000 Books

At a press conference in London this morning Dame Lynne Brindley, the chief executive of The British Library announced a strategic partnership with Google which will lead to the digitization and indexing of 250,000 out of copy right titles in the collection.The titles will span the period 1700-1870 and thus will...

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Arrowing in on Orphans: A Beyond the Book Interview

CCC's Beyond the Book takes a look at ARROW - Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works which is an initiative to help libraries with the identification of rights status and rightsholders in digital library programs. ARROW is indirectly is a tool for the identification of so-called “orphan...

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