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Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians - The British Library
Discover 1,200 Romantic and Victorian literary treasures, new insights by 60 experts, 25 documentary films, 30 inspirational teachers’ notes and more.
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Why the death of net neutrality would be a disaster for libraries
The Internet's eyes turned to the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday, as the panel approved a plan to consider allowing Internet service providers to charge Web sites like Netflix for higher-quality delivery of their content to consumers. In the lead-up to the vote, tech companies, venture capitalists and even celebrities all expressed opposition to the proposal, arguing that it would effectively end the open Internet.
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17 Mind Blowing Libraries From Around The World
These libraries aren't just buildings for books. They are some of the most beautifully designed and classic buildings we have ever seen.
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Harvard book bound in human skin
A book owned by Harvard University has been been bound in human skin, scientists believe. Des destinees de l'ame (Destinies of the Soul) has been housed at Houghton Library since the 1930s. Writer Arsene Houssaye is said to have given the book to his friend, Dr Ludovic Bouland, in the mid-1880s.
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Historic Libraries that will boost your desire to read
Visit some of the most beautiful historic libraries of the world. These amazing book deposits will boost your desire for reading.
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Leawood throws the book at Little Free Library
The city of Leawood is using the full power of the law to protect property values from the threat of, uh, free cabinet-sized libraries. A municipal statute designed to ban all detached structures is being levied against Leawood residents Brian and Sarah Collins after their 9-year-old son, Spencer, worked with his dad and grandpa to build the Little Free Library as a Mother’s Day gift.
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Close The Libraries And Buy Everyone An Amazon Kindle Unlimited Subscription
Amazon has launched the mooted read all you can manage service and called it Kindle Unlimited. It costs, sadly for the US only at present, $9.99 a month and gives unlimited access to some 600,000 titles. Various people have various ideas about all of this. My colleague Michael Humphrey points [...]
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Amazon’s New Kindle Unlimited Is Here. Get Ready to Binge-Read | Underwire | WIRED
Wired ho confirma: Amazon ha llençat la seva oferta de subscripció il·limitada a una col·lecció de 600.000 ebooks per 9'99$ al mes. Encara no es pot subscriure fora del USA, però potser prest la tindrem a l'abast. Quin impacte tindrà això sobre el sector, tant dels llibreters com dels editors, com dels autors, o sobre les biblioteques?
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Liibook plataforma de publicació gratuïta i venda de ebooks
- Liibook.com és una plataforma que ofereix l'autopublicació de ebooks i permet la seva venda. Es defineix com una combinació de biblioteca, editorial i llibreria
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The Low-Tech Appeal of Little Free Libraries
The "take a book, return a book" boxes are catching in even on places where Kindles and brick-and-mortar books abound.
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Check out the New York Public Library’s hilarious archive of librarians’ harsh children’s book reviews
One hundred years before post-millennial parents were deeming Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs inappropriate for young vegans, the children’s librarians of the New York Public Library kept a card catalog of hand-typed kids’ book reviews. “There’s about a billion card catalogs in the library,” says Lynn Lobash, who oversees reader services at the NYPL. “But these are special in that they were used as a tool for collection development, for the staff to evaluate the children’s collection.”
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MIND MELD: Our Favorite Library and Bookstore Memories
These summer days have me feeling nostalgic for the summers of my youth, when I’d ride my bike to the local library for another stack of paperbacks.
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The largest public sci-fi library in the world is under threat from new management
If you’re a sci-fi or fantasy fan who loves to read, there’s no cooler place than the massive Eaton Collection library at UC Riverside — but all that could change soon. Housed in the UC Riverside Libraries' Special Collections and Archives in the Tomás Rivera Library, the Eaton Collection is touted as the largest publicly accessible collection of science fiction, fantasy, horror and utopian literature in the world.
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How Long Do CDs Last? It Depends, But Definitely Not Forever
Back in the 1990s, historical societies, museums and symphonies across the country began transferring all kinds of information onto what was thought to be a very durable medium: the compact disc. Now, preservationists are worried that a lot of key information stored on CDs — from sound recordings to public records — is going to disappear. Some of those little silver discs are degrading, and researchers at the Library of Congress are trying to figure out why.
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Thief steals, sells $6,000 in library books in Pittsburgh area
Libraries in the Pittsburgh area say thief has found a way to bypass security
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Pastor wants 'demonic' books removed from public library in Cleveland
A Cleveland pastor wants what he calls "demonic" books pulled from the shelves of the public library
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Florida College Opens A Library Without Books
A fully digital library is among the futuristic features of Florida Polytechnic University's striking dome-shaped building, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava
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New York is Getting a Floating Library
New York City is home to many amazing libraries and this fall the city is getting another. The Floating Library is a pop-up library that will open on the Lilac Museum Steamship at Pier 25 on the Hudson River. Artist Beatrice Glow has curated the collection, which is made up of books focused on the arts. The boat will be docked from September 6-October 3, 2014 and will include reading and exhibition space.
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'Captain Underpants' Tops List of Most Challenged Books in 2013
Find out which titles made the American Library Association's list of most challenged books, which comes out each year during Banned Books Week.
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The Cell: An Image Library
The Cell: An Image Library™ is a freely accessible, easy-to-search, public repository of reviewed and annotated images, videos, and animations of cells from a variety of organisms, showcasing cell architecture, intracellular functionalities, and both normal and abnormal processes. The purpose of this database is to advance research, education, and training, with the ultimate goal of improving human health.
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