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by Andy Woodworth I recently read Brian Kenny’s latest column piece for Publisher’s Weekly “Where Reference Fits in the Modern Library” which talks about the state of reference in public libraries.…
For years, we’ve been hearing that traditional library reference service is dead. In reality, reference just disappeared, like Jimmy Hoffa.
The Stanford scholars who founded the groundbreaking online encyclopedia say that the project owes its success to the unique way it organizes its community of contributors, editors and users.
There is a way out for the publisher At the most recent meeting of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries in Moncton, it was clear that the present, past and future of looseleaf services continue to be a source of angst and concern in the legal research community. This fact has been documented on many […]
Last week, I was asked by an acquisitions editor at a publishing company to review a 2 page proposal for a new reference work that would be available in print and electronically.
Cory Doctorow: The most significant lexicographic reference work in the English language can be yours digitally – but at a price and not forever
How not to manage piracy of reference works.
Wiley sells off consumer-grade divisions to concentrate on STEM/Pro. Smart, or doubling-down on the Titanic?
Mobile is a big reference battleground. Apple, in trying to dump Google, may be throwing money at niche reference sites instead.
Print will survive. Books will survive even longer. It's print as a marker of prestige that's dying.
Bowing to the competition online, the encyclopedia’s publisher said the 2010 edition, a 32-volume set that weighs in at 129 pounds, would be the last.
New apps offer possibilities to the cook that would be impossible with a laptop, let alone a book.