‘Amazon doesn’t care about books’: how Barnes & Noble bounced back
Lauren Aratani in New YorkSat 15 Apr 2023 00.00 EDT James Daunt, CEO of Barnes & Noble, on the first floor of the massive bookstore, the second largest in the country, at Union Square in...
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By Andrew Albanese | Mar 25, 2023 In a Swift Decision, Judge Eviscerates Internet Archive’s Scanning and Lending Program By Andrew Albanese | Mar 25, 2023 In an emphatic 47-page opinion, federal judge...
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Kate Duffy Mar 13, 2023, 6:09 AM Gen Z is choosing to read paperback books over e-books, data and interviews indicate. The phone-obsessed Gen Z is surprisingly a sucker for paperback books. Three Gen...
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Stephanie Stacey Feb 25, 2023, 12:00 PM Stephanie Stacey Feb 25, 2023, 12:00 PM Barnes & Noble is the world’s biggest book retailer. Sales at Barnes & Noble are rising because staff are it’s...
View ArticlePublishers Want to End How Libraries Lend Books Online
by Andrew Bauld | Medium February 13, 2023 A court decision could limit how you access e-books from the library When the pandemic began and schools and libraries around the country were forced to...
View ArticleT.S. Eliot on Writing: His Warm and Wry Letter of Advice to a...
The Marginalian | Maria Popova “If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in,” the great marine biologist and author Rachel Carson advised a blind girl aspiring to be...
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From Harvard Business review | Anthony K. Tjan Mentorship comes in many flavors. It doesn’t always work unless leaders bear in mind a few common principles. Mentorship comes in many flavors. It...
View ArticleThe death of plagiarism /
Brad Esposito January 26, 2023 (Very Fine Day) A few years ago, somewhere in the free-flowing and seemingly endless spiral of 2016 American Politics, a particular quote was rolled out endlessly: Our...
View ArticleDefining Censorship Before Denouncing It
January 12, 2021 Posted by Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP® photo by Pixabay user LoboStudioHamburg If the opinion editors at The New York Times decline to publish your cogent and insightful essay on a...
View ArticlePresentation: Mayer Herskovics, Survivor, Thriver, Influencer
Presented to the Yeshiva University Library Staff and AJL-NYMA members on Zoom, Thursday, 15th October, 2020. [presentation]
View ArticleBuilding Your Career in Scholarly Communication: Tips, Tricks and Everything...
Scholarly Communication | Career advice | Mentoring |Academic Librarianship by Charlie Rapple | May 9, 2019 Last week, I was part of a panel at the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s (SSP’s) first...
View ArticleHow to Figure Out How Much Influence You Have at Work [HBR]
by Maxim Sytch | February 18, 2019 Informal leadership | Mentoring | Career advice |Success |Relationships |Impact Purestock/Getty Images A banker in Southeast Asia wanted to allow employees of a car...
View ArticleStudent Success: Academic Librarianship’s New Holy Grail | From the Bell Tower
Student success | Academic libraries | Altmetrics | Leadership by Steven Bell | Jan 09, 2019 There is little debate in academic librarianship over our role in contributing to student success. The year...
View ArticleThe 5 Things All Great Salespeople Do
Marketing | Advocacy | Career advice by Joseph Curtis | December 18, 2018 blackred/Getty Images The best salespeople know they’re the best. They take pride in their art form. They separate themselves...
View ArticleOpen Invitation: Fall Reception of the New York Library Club, Inc. Thursday,...
Library event | Networking | Professional Library Organizations | Scholarships Are you a librarian? Library Student? Writer? Publisher? Looking to network with other like professionals? The New York...
View ArticleIf You Want Limitless Success, Stop Asking “HOW” And Start Asking “WHO”
Career advice | Mentoring | Social networking “Focus on WHO instead of HOW” — Dean Jackson There’s a famous story of Edwin C. Barnes, who in 1905 had no money or expertise. However, he was an ardent...
View ArticleYou’re a Researcher Without a Library: What Do You Do?
Research | Reference | Libraries | Open Access by Jake Orlowitz | Nov 15, 2017 | Medium Investigating solutions for frustrated scholars, nonprofits, independent learners, and the rest of us. The world...
View ArticleLeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund
Advocacy | Intellectual Freedom | Humanitarian Aid The LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund supports librarians who are facing financial difficulty due to discrimination or because they have taken a...
View ArticleHow To Become Indispensable At Work This Year
Leadership | Career advice |Professional development | Workplace | Success by Gwen Moran | January 2, 2018 Virtually every office has one: that employee who is the go-to contact and seems to knows...
View ArticleALA Code of Ethics 1: What’s in a code? | Podcast
Libraries | Ethics | Professional conduct Here’s BLL Season 2, Episode 2, In which I introduce my 3-part (though actually it’ll probably be 4 parts) series on the ALA Code of Ethics. What is the code?...
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