In couple of my previous blogs I talked about textbooks going digital, and how comfortable today’s young adult is with getting their “content” in digital format, be it on their computer, PDA, or cellphone. Now we have a university taking the initiative and making digital images from their rare collections available for viewing on your [...]
In my last blog I talked about school textbooks going digital. Now comes news from the Brigham Young University that their Harold B. Lee Library has purchased three of Amazon’s Kindle for interlibrary loans. It has started, folks.
Read more about this at LibraryJournal.com
On June 8, 2009, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his latest idea to save money for his money-crunched state: do away with textbooks. “Textbooks are outdated, in my opinion. For so many years, we’ve been trying to teach the kids exactly the same way. Our kids get their information from the internet, downloaded onto their [...]
My work at Heritage Microfilm involves partnering with libraries, historical and genealogical societies, museums, and in some cases local governments. We partner with them to digitize their documents, photographs, newspapers, etc., for the purpose of making this information more accessable to more people. Digitizing these items also makes them indexed better, and therefore easier [...]
