With advancements in technology, libraries are offering much more than something to read. A library researcher offers a sampling of some unexpected items that library patrons can check out these days.
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The way books are sorted at the library can be highly political, touching upon issues of race and identity.
Digital publishing hasn’t resulted in the free and open access to information many envisioned. Universities are increasingly fed up with a system they see as charging them for their own scholars’ labor.
The media trope negates the work done by archivists, who are often well-aware of the existence of ‘long-lost’ letters, journals and stories.
Are the stacks of books in your library still alive? Why keep them if they are not? Why does our attachment to the printed word not waver in the face of its digital counterpart?
If schools and policy-makers want to boost children’s literacy, they should invest in teacher librarians.
Buildings built for writing and reading the news altered the urban fabric.
South Africa’s copyright law must not continue ignoring the principles of fair use.
Sharing seeds was common practice among farmers throughout history until the rise of agribusiness. Now seeds are trademarked and regulated, but there’s a new place to get them for free: the library.
While many jobs are being replaced by technology, those that participate in the making of (good) social experiences for people are bucking the trend.
South Africa has a history of burning books. The ashes of burnt books tell of the barbarism to which a society can descend.
Only a small fraction of the data from archaeological fieldwork is made accessible to the public or preserved for future research.
In the digital age, libraries got creative about how to translate services they’ve always offered into new formats. And they’ve transformed their spaces to have a variety of community uses.
Interdisciplinary research led to the discovery that three historic books were covered in a layer of arsenic.
For Ethiopia, there is no connection between the Maqdala war in 1868 and the stolen treasures at Maqdala
A new room will open at the NSW State LIbrary today, furnished with objects from Donald and Myfanwy Horne’s study. Their daughter, Julia, reflects here on a writing partnership and the room that fostered it.
Wikipedia’s coverage on women is less comprehensive, and its volunteer editor base is mostly male. What can be done to change the numbers?
Every year South Africans spend twice as much on chocolate than they do on books
Essays On Air: Why libraries can and must change
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The much heralded 'death of the book' has nothing to do with the death of reading or writing. It's about a radical transformation in reading practices, as explained in this episode of Essays On Air.
Technologies for accessing information need to be somehow future-proofed.
Top contributors
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Deputy University Librarian, University of California, Merced
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Research Associate - Creative Industries, Flinders University
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Adjunct Senior Industry Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Slavic Resources Coordinator, and Head, Petro Jacyk Resource Centre, University of Toronto Libraries, University of Toronto
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Adjunct Professor, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University
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Assistant Professor, Harvard University
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Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of the Witwatersrand
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Baker Endowed Chair and Professor of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina
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Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and Cultural Informatics, University of Alberta
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Professor of Print and Digital Cultures, Cardiff University
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Director of the Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics, Monash University
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, University of California, Davis
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Postdoctoral Fellow—Indigenous and Colonial Histories, University of Tasmania