Picture the following diverse scenarios: A librarian in Utah develops and shares a plugin for an open source repository system that is reused by libraries in three other states; a curator in New York ...

Public libraries have increasingly loaned digital content in the past ten years. Worldwide, libraries that do business with Overdrive loaned out 739 million audiobooks, e-books, and digital magazines ...

A massive spike in demand for e-books and digital audiobooks is colliding with expensive, expiring corporate publisher ...

Contemporary research in the humanities has expanded beyond anything that could be considered traditional. Historians are building interactive digital maps, literary scholars are using computers to ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

It’s a measure of how key comics and graphic novels are to library collections that there is a digital platform solely devoted to the format. Comics Plus, powered by LibraryPass, primarily serves ...

Giannoulias launches Illinois’ first statewide digital library program, giving residents free access to EBSCO databases, ...

More than half (57 percent) of GB adults disagree that digital services are an adequate replacement for traditional libraries, according to a survey conducted by the University of Strathclyde. The ...

Illinoisans now will have access to a large collection of high-quality digital information and educational resources for free ...