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6 Reasons We're In Another 'Book-Burning' Period in History The next thing I'm going to say is going to make 80 percent of you want to punch me in the face, so let's get it out of the way: For the past year or so, part of my job has been to walk through library warehouses and destroy tens of thousands of often old and irreplaceable books. Book burning is something people usually associate with the Third Reich (the fact that this is the second time this year I've been compared with Nazis on this website probably speaks more about me than I would care to admit sober), a symbol of intolerance and a hatred of intellectualism. But that's not why we're doing it. So, let me take this chance to make a few things clear ... #6. And I'm not just talking about the crappy local library in your nearest hick town where you assume nobody can read anyway. "No need to repair the sign -- we have an audio version." GettyThe hobos would have just traded them in for books about drugs anyway. And no, I'm not just talking about duplicates and old TV Guides, either. #5.

GoldWave - Audio Editing, Recording, Conversion, Restoration, & Analysis Software Convert just about anything to anything else Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries Introduction Google's December 2004 announcement [1] of its intention to collaborate with five major research libraries – Harvard University, the University of Michigan, Stanford University, the University of Oxford, and the New York Public Library – to digitize and surface their print book collections in the Google searching universe has, predictably, stirred conflicting opinion, with some viewing the project as a welcome opportunity to enhance the visibility of library collections in new environments, and others wary of Google's prospective role as gateway to these collections [2]. The project has been vigorously debated on discussion lists and blogs, with the participating libraries commonly referred to as "the Google 5". The Google Print Library Project (GPLP) [3] has galvanized a long overdue, multi-faceted discussion about library print book collections. Coverage: What proportion of the system-wide print book collection will GPLP potentially cover? Note on data sources Coverage

Word Spy The Reader’s Advisor Online Blog The readers’s advisory librarian’s weekly update, from a scan of more than 100 blogs, newsletters, magazines, newspapers and television. This blog is brought to you by the Reader’s Advisor Online. TRY THE FREE RAO DATABASE based on Libraries Unlimited’s print Genreflecting Advisory series. Give it a whirl and let us know how you like it. We’d love to hear from you. By Cindy Orr and Sarah Statz Cords New to Bestseller Lists This Week: GRAPHIC BOOKS and MANGA To Be Published Week of April 14-20, 2014 Here are just a very few: Fiction Atherton, Nancy – Aunt Dimity and the Wishing Well – 9780670026692 Bova, Ben – Transhuman – 9780765332936 Calvino, Italo- The Complete Cosmicomics – 9780544231931 Cotterill, Colin – The Axe Factor – 9781250043368 de Rosnay, Tatiana- The Other Story – 9781250045133 Dickey, Eric Jerome- A Wanted Woman – 9780525954279 Hayes, Samantha- Until You’re Mine – 9780804136907 Roberts, Nora- The Collector – 9780399164453 Nonfiction Best Books of 2013 News of the Week: Awards Lists

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