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Libraries Hurt By Budget Cuts

Walking through the doors of the Edgewater Library, the first thing you notice are the books, piled a foot high on counter tops and crammed into more than a dozen carts. Hundreds of tomes are stacked anywhere but on the shelves at this small, one-room branch of the Chicago Public Library.

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Welcome to the library. Say goodbye to the books

Boston Globe – “This year, after having amassed a collection of more than 20,000 books, officials at the pristine campus about 90 minutes west of Boston have decided the 144-year-old school no longer needs a traditional library. The academy’s administrators have decided to discard all their...

The future of libraries, with or without books

As the fight over Google digitizing books heats up, some libraries are planning for a future with or without their huge collections of tomes. In doing so, they're turning to the same ideas that have shaped the social Web. They're trying to start conversations about information instead of just she...

Sunlight makes you happy

"So maybe this explains why the moron lunatic left is so depressed. They stay in their basements hiding behind keyboards, typing rambling incoherent tomes about conservatives and never get enough sunlight" -- United Conservatives of Virginia

Honestly, some people can twist anything! Classic bi...

Do Kindle owners hate books?

MSNBC - “Sarah Lally Brown is a voracious reader, often devouring three tomes at a time. While the 35-year-old Woodinville, Wash. resident prefers the woodsy, remote area where she and her husband live, 20 miles from Seattle’s city center, she says she wouldn’t be there if they couldn’t g...