reading is bigger than books
FotB is auditing a new class in the School of Library & Information Science. This is Christine Pawley’s
“History of Readers and Reading”.
The seminar class has twelve very smart library school students and the discussion sessions are awesome.
libraries have edge in job market for librarians
I am tired of administration repeating how dependent libraries are on technology and how difficult it is for them to compete for technology expertise. If libraries compete for librarians instead, they will find the judgement to use technolgy in balance with the more important goal of helping people to read within the current storm of the multiplicity of reading modes. Librarians have the good sense to know that the technologies only augment good sense.
“Promulgate the subversive notion that quality of life has little to do with an index of all the gadgets we own, or all the data we can accumulate.” Adam Greenfield
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warring reading modes, each bent on domination?
Text-e virtual symposium continues with the topic of “Reading without Writing” as introduced by Dan Sperber. FotB fights for all the reading modes and their fair interplays.
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ebooks taking off in various directions again
Find out why librarians and libraries are so backward and so forward at the
Electronic Book Web For backward libraries see
Internet & Libraries and for forward libraries (by the same author) see
Future of ePublishing. What is difficult to believe is not the confusion itself, but the lack of understanding that the screen read book industry must be established in a reading mode other than the print reading mode. See
chart.