September 2012

Why Books Are The Ultimate New Business Card
Books are no longer simply books, they are branding devices and credibility signals–not to mention the reason their authors command large speaking or consulting fees.

Good News! E.L. James, author of the best-selling trilogy Fifty Shades, said on Monday that she hasn’t ruled out writing a fourth book, but is focused on composing another erotic tale and also plans to write a paranormal romance.

You might be interested in the new(ish) list where we talk about IT Security stuff, SEC4LIB. It’s low volume and you’ll probably learn a few things about security issues.

You may also like to check out the IT Security For Libraries section here at LISNews: https://lisnews.org/security

Information literacy

Opinion piece in the NYT that has elements on information literacy.

Excerpt: People assimilate new information in a selective fashion. When people get information that supports what they initially thought, they give it considerable weight. When they get information that undermines their initial beliefs, they tend to dismiss it.

Full piece here

France24 reports that an appellate court has suspended the Google Books lawsuit proceedings.

See also this literary piece…

A Law Librarian in Virginia lost 80 pounds eating almost exclusively at Starbucks. Story also mentions that she is a kidney donor. Initially when she wanted to donate a kidney doctors said she was too heavy. After she lost 40 pounds she was able to be a kidney donor.

Full piece

Print-on-demand (POD) books could soon be everywhere, according to a major announcement made today.

On Demand, the makers of the POD Espresso Book Machine currently installed in fewer than a hundred bookstores nationwide, have announced new partnerships with Eastman Kodak and ReaderLink Distribution Services.

Under the arrangement, the company’s POD technology will be made available to retailers who have Kodak Picture Kiosks, currently installed in 105,000 locations according to Publishers Weekly, including drugstores and supermarkets.

Full article

This week’s episode is jointly numbered with Ubuntu Ohio — Burning Circle and speaks to a situation that arose over the last week in North Africa.

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A statement from the Georgia Secretary of State on Thursday, September 13, announced the closing to the public of the State Archives as of November 1. This would also include the layoff of some employees of the Archives.

In response to this, a Facebook page and petition have been created to protest the closure.

According to this NPR story, the closure would  make Georgia the first state in the nation without publicly accessible archives.

Here’s your Friday laugh from the Bob Staake Gallery.

One of many…