Articles
Weiss, Laura. "Buildings, books, and bytes: Libraries and communities in the digital age." APLIS 10, no. 3: 163, 1997. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed July 1, 2011).
Weiss, Laura. "Buildings, books, and bytes: Libraries and communities in the digital age." APLIS 10, no. 3: 163, 1997. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed July 1, 2011).
A comparison of how library leaders envision the future of the library as opposed to a polling of public opinion as to what the role of the library will be in the future.
Borawski, C. "Beyond the Book: Literacy in the Digital Age." Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children 7, no. 3: 53-54, 2009. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed July 1, 2011).
Digital literacy is explained, as well as the ALA's collaboration with the Children's Book Council in 2009 that produced "Multiple Literacies in the Library." "Multiple Literacies in the Library," promotes providing children with more information through mediums other than traditional print.
Herther, Nancy K. "The Ebook Reader Is Not the Future of Ebooks." Searcher 16, no. 8: 26-40, 2008. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed July 1, 2011).
A timeline of the history of electronic books and is presented, and the potential future of the bound book is examined in this article.
Robinson, Cynthia K. 2009. "Library space in the digital age: the pressure is on." Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances 22, no. 1: 5-8. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed July 1, 2011).
This article discusses the future of actual library space, and recommends that librarians be proactive in fighting for library space as information continues to go digital.
Freedman, Maurice J. "Continuity and change for U.S. libraries in the digital age: How U.S. public and academic libraries are confronting the challenge of the digital library." Information Services & Use 23, no. 4 (October 2003): 211-226. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed July 1, 2011).
Freedman favors library automation and offers the library he directed: the Westchester Library System in New York, as an example of a successful experience in digital management that could be used as a prototype for libraries world-wide.
Mann, Thomas. "The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools. Final Report: March 17, 2006. Prepared for the Library of Congress by Karen Calhoun. A Critical Review." Journal of Library Metadata 8, no. 2 (June 2008): 169-197. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed July 1, 2011).
Thomas Mann prepares a scathing review of The Calhoun Report, claiming that the author misrepresents and draws the wrong conclusions about the place libraries and librarians should hold in the future.
Websites
http://www.sfwa.org/for-authors/writer-beware/electronic/
Science Fiction Writers of America outlines what a new author should consider when deciding on an e-publishing site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book
Wikapedia offers a list of advantages and disadvantages to the electronic book.
http://www.lulu.com/
If you want to self publish a book with no fees up front, Lulu is a good site.
Search Engine Submission - AddMe
This site will feed your URL to many search engines in exchange for a link on your blog or website.It will also create a flurry of annoying emails by SEO companies. Not worth it, in my opinion.
http://eprints.rclis.org/bitstream/10760/16057/1/advances_in_librarianship_preprint.pdf
This article on the internet discusses how libraries’ online public access catalogs (OPACs) have been competing with, and are threatened by Web search engines.
