This week’s guest post comes from Yan Xu of the Naperville Public Library. Yan is the Adult and Teen Services Supervisor at the Naperville Blvd. branch. The Naperville Public Library started a Nook lending program last May and Yan details how the

As the ubiquity of mobile technologies increases, libraries, schools and museums are experimenting with the potential for expanding their engagement with users through these highly portable and sophisticated devices. Thinking beyond e-books, the d

With travel costs high and libraries busier than ever, library staff are using online technologies to connect and learn. Over 300 librarians attended the Februrary 28, 2013, free one-day online conference, Big Talk From Small Libraries, aimed at l

The Pew Internet Project, funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, continues to investigate the place that e-reading and libraries have in Americans' reading habits. Following a series of previous reports this year: Librarie

Possibly the most exciting aspect of attending IFLA’s 2012 World Library and Information Congress was the opportunity to truly get a sense of the big—global—picture of librarianship. Across all cultural and linguistic boundaries, there were two tr

Andromeda Yelton outlines her recent Library Technology Report, and discusses how more recent findings stress a growing need for mobile services in libraries. (photo by Molly Tomlinson)