The National Science Foundation awarded a grant last year to digitize millions of photographs of insects into a national database. The idea being that researchers and other interested parties could access this database to view insects quickly and easily. [Read more…]
Illinois State Library launches “Text a Librarian” service
Ever wish you had access to a super genius through your mobile phone? Someone that could reference gigantic databases of information and find what you’re looking for quickly? Well, now you can. It’s a service called “Siri” “Text a Librarian” and it’s available on every mobile phone in Illinois. [Read more…]
US ebook sales jump 130% at “Big Six” book publisher
Net sales from digital products (ebooks and audio books) in the US climbed 130% last year at Hachette Book Group (HBG). Lagardère SCA, the parent of HBG, released financial results today that provided some highlights of the book publisher’s performance. [Read more…]
Amazon Kindle Owners’ Lending Library now has over 100,000 ebooks
It took Amazon 96 days to grow the list of ebooks in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library to include over 100,000 titles. As of this writing, there are now 100,002 ebook titles in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library.
When they started the program way back when on November 3, 2011, there were just a little over 5,000 ebooks in it. So they have added almost 1,000 titles per day. That is absolutely amazing. [Read more…]
Taylor Swift donates 14,000 children’s books to Nashville Public Library
Taylor Swift has generously donated 14,000 children’s books to the Nashville Public Library. The books will all be from Scholastic and will be one of the largest donations the library has ever received according to CMT News. [Read more…]
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