Less than a week has passed since Apple unveiled the iPad and its new e-book reading software, but it seems that the device is already disrupting the publishing market. This past weekend, publishing house Macmillan and online retailer Amazon sparred over the price of e-books. The dispute began in behind-the-scenes conversations between the two companies, [...]

For the Love of Culture, Google, Copyright and our Future. Astute and moving commentary by Lawrence Lessig, a love letter to the real-space library. Whatever your view of it, notice first just how different this future promises to be. In real libraries, in real space, access is not metered at the level of the page [...]

The ColorAdd® system was developed by designer Miguel Neiva to allow those who suffer from different types of colorblindness to easily identify colors, and allowing them to interact with certainty in situations where color plays a key role like in navigation, reference and organization. via Color + Design Blog / Color Identifying System For The Color Blind by [...]

WWIII propaganda posters for sale, 25% to EFF Boing Boing Brian sez, “Back in June, Boing Boing posted when I first made the digital versions of the WWIII Posters. Now three of them are on sale on my site (listed), with 25% of the proceeds going towards the EFF!” Don’t you wish you could hang [...]

Ray Bradburys ode to the library that raised him, which just closed Boing Boing "Libraries raised me. I dont believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries, because most students dont have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldnt go to [...]

Disused call-box turned into worlds smallest lending library – Boing Boing Disused call-box turned into worlds smallest lending librarySteve sez, "A traditional red phone box has been recycled into one of the UKs smallest lending libraries – stocking 100 books, CDs, and DVDs. The phone booth was bought from British Telecom for £1, and it [...]

US govt drops price of journals from $17k to $0, adds XML to Federal Register! – Boing Boing Well, this is just very cool. I throw a few stones over the wall to official DC, but this time I want to send some roses in the front door.The Government Printing Office and the Office of [...]

Merck and Elsevier publish fake peer-reviewed journal – Boing Boing Merck and Elsevier publish fake peer-reviewed journal Posted by Cory Doctorow, May 3, 2009 12:44 AM | permalink Pharmaceutical giant Merck paid science publishing juggernaut Elsevier to publish a fake peer-reviewed scientific journal, Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine. What’s wrong with this is [...]

Digital Branch Style Guide | David Lee King Thought someone might find this useful – it’s the styleguide we use for my library’s digital branch! It’s a long document, broken up into these sections:

PC and Pixel free online library at comics.com. – Comics.com