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Corilee Christou is LibraryCity’s new library and publisher relations director emeritus

Update, Aug. 19, 2018: To make more time for her grandchildren, Corilee Christou has resigned as library and publisher relations director for LibraryCity and...

Props! Novelist Philip Roth and the Newark Public Library bring his books ‘home’

Unfair. I’m glad Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his song lyrics, veritable poetry, but the the judges should have honored Philip Roth eons ago. At...

Bill Gates: A billionaire book critic who apparently shuns e-books

Microsoft blew it. The company could have been Amazon, too—at least the e-book side around the turn of the century. I can recall going...

E-books, e-reading help child literacy: Major study from UK National Literacy Trust

Here’s a research finding that should surprise no one except ebook haters. The UK’s National Literacy Trust, “dedicated to raising literacy levels in the...

Mark Zuckerberg’s $45B pledge: Why libraries deserve their share—and what they could do with it

So of course I’m happy. Facebook founder Mark Zuckberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, have pledged $45 billion in philanthropic donations if you...

Seattle’s iPad-loving librarian vs. books

Washington will soon pick a new Librarian of Congress. May I zero in on an outrageous negative example—to show one risk of choosing the...

Should libraries get into the e-reader hardware business in time?

I’m rooting for Good E-Reader to succeed with the proposed Ultimate Android e-ink tablet. Props to TeleRead Editor Chris Meadows for the generosity he...