The Rage in Japan: Reading Books on Your Cell Phone
Professional Reading Shelf
Mobile Access to Info Japan Cell-Phone Users Turn to Literature
We keep saying mobile access and mobile search are going to be huge. Will downloading books to your mobile phone or mobile device (Blackberry/Treo) be another new service libraries offer? From the article, "Several mobile Web sites offer hundreds of novels -- classics, best sellers and some works written especially for the medium. It takes some getting used to. Only a few lines pop up at a time because the phone screen is about half the size of a business card. But improvements in the quality of liquid-crystal displays and features such as automatic page-flipping, or scrolling, make the endeavor far more enjoyable than you'd imagine."
-- Libraries--Awards
Source: National Endowment for the Humanities NEH Announces We the People Bookshelf Awards to 500 Libraries; 15 Classic Books on "Freedom" Will Support Community Programs
"The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced that it has awarded free copies of 15 classic books from the We the People Bookshelf, with four also offered in Spanish, to 500 school and local libraries throughout the country. The theme of this year's bookshelf is "freedom." As part of the award, libraries will hold programs or events to raise awareness of these classic books and engage young readers." Full list of award winners (PDF; 44 KB)
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Public Libraries
Bookstores
Source: Library and Information Research Change in store? An investigation into the impact of the book superstore environment on use, perceptions and expectations of the public library as a space, place and experience
"The book superstore is promoted not just as a place to buy books but also as a community resource in which to read, learn and socialise: traits that have in combination traditionally been the preserve of the public library. This study investigates the impact of the bookstore environment on public library space. The attitudes and behaviours of library and bookstore users were examined through focus group interviews and a self-completed questionnaire. Clear areas of overlap in the functions of the two sites were found, as was evidence of age and income-related splits in use and perception of bookstores and libraries. Results suggest attention should be paid to the beliefs and behaviours of young people and middle-income earners (the groups most noticeably increasing their use of the bookstore) and to the desired balance of education and recreation in the image and nature of the public library."
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