Michael Rosenblum: What's a Library? Library under construction -- along with a 50 story hotel and condo....
I live across the street from a library... or at least what used to be a library. The Donnell Library on West 53rd Street. Today, it is a big hole in the ground. There is going to be a 50-story condominium and Baccarat Hotel where the Donnell Library used to be. Frankly, I will not miss the library. Even though I lived right across the street from it for many years, I never went inside. Why would I do that? Why, when I can order up pretty much anything I want online, any time I want. I am old enough to remember wandering through the stacks at Sawyer Library at Williams when I was a student. Those were the days. I have a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary on my bookshelf, but when I went to see if carrel was spelled with one 'L' or two, I didn't pull out the OED. My niece, upon seeing the first Harry Potter movie asked why Harry and Hermione and Ron always went to the 'library' at Hogwarts to look stuff up.
Paperless public libraries switch to digital. 22 May 2013Last updated at 13:53 ET By Bill Hicks A public library without any printed books is opening this summer The phrase "bookless libraries" arrives with a dull, oxymoronic thud, enough to get the blood of any bibliophile boiling.
It's the sort of thud made in the 1980s by doomed reports promising a "paperless office". Anyone who remembers that much-mocked slogan might well shrug off this latest idea as overheated punditry. Or perhaps they should think again, as the world's first completely paperless public library is scheduled to open this summer in Bexar County, Texas, in the United States. Bexar County's so-called BiblioTech is a low-cost project with big ambitions. It will have 100 e-readers on loan, and dozens of screens where the public will be able to browse, study, and learn digital skills. It will be a truly bookless library - although that is not a phrase much to the liking of BiblioTech's project co-ordinator, Laura Cole. 'Not even a bookstore...' The iLibrary “Start Quote. Top posts. Eduweb: award-winning developer of digital learning games and multimedia interactives.
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Click here for the running list. This post originally ran June 13, 2012. In Growing Up With …, Jenn features picture books, middle reader, and teen books linked together by concept or theme. It wasn’t until I saw the The Iron Giant at the not-so-tender age of 20 that I realized robots could be cuddly, as well as terrifying. (I blame all those early-‘90s weekend reruns of The Terminator movies for my previously fear-driven obsession.) The inaugural post, accordingly, is in honor of that first noble mechanical reminder that choice triumphs over programming. Boy + Bot, Ame Dyckman and Dan YaccarinoOstensible Age Range: 1 – 4 Meet Bot. Zita the Spacegirl, Ben HatkeOstensible Age Range: 8 – 12 Next up are One, a Heavily Armored Mobile Battle Orb, and Randy, a scaredybot with a secret, befriended by the titular Zita on her mission to rescue her friend Joseph. Let me google that for you.
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