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Are Libraries Dying or Thriving?

Boston Public Library

 

There are many people who assume that libraries are becoming a dying breed… that the increasing use of internet at home is hindering community members from flocking to their beloved community libraries and their library’s resources.… Read More…

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Remembering 9/11

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R.I.P. Michael Hart, Inventor of the eBook and Pioneer of Electronic Literacy

Michael Stern Hart, inventor of the eBook, founder of Project Gutenberg, and a pioneer of electronic literacy, passed away this past Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at the age of 64-years-old in his home in Urbana, Illinois. Hart is known for… Read More…

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Happy Labor Day!

Happy Labor Day, Americans! Here’s a picture of some coal miners, who did labor.

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Do the Smurfs Hate Information Literacy? Why Hollywood’s lack of ideas is bad for our kids

We know Hollywood doesn’t create ideas, but they do validate them.  Most people are familiar with what happened in 1934′s  It Happened One Night: Clark Gable took off his shirt, and his reveal of his naked chest destroyed… Read More…