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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

DID AMAZON JUST CHANGE THE WORLD? Unlimited Kindle Books is a Game Changer (if they can license everything) - The Ubiquitous Librarian - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Brian Mathews does a great job of summarizing the potential opportunities and pitfalls of Unlimited Kindle Books.  As e-books have continued to grow, everyone's been waiting for a service like this to come along and offer access to large quantities of them at a "reasonable" price.  Is this the one?



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Monday, July 07, 2014

Makerspaces is now an LC Subject Heading

You know that libraries are getting serious about makerspaces when this happens. 8-)  But all kidding aside, this should make it easier to find materials on makerspaces:



Makerspaces - LC Linked Data Service (Library of Congress):



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