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Baker & Taylor Inc., the world's largest distributor of physical and digital books and entertainment products, today announced it has signed agreements to provide print-on-demand services - via its TextStream Digital Print Service unit - to Fordham University Press, University of North Carolina Press and Penn State Press.

Conjure up a picture of today's librarian, and you are likely to be wrong. Professional librarians are information analysts, freedom of information and protection of privacy officers, family literacy specialists, Internet trainers, teen specialists, genealogists, web designers and technologists, database managers, historical researchers, ...

Citing a $5.9 million dollar cut in funding, the New York Public Library system will cut hours in two-thirds of its locations across Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island.

Something pretty wonderful happened on Jan. 20. The Illinois library community started an e-mail message campaign and it went viral and it worked! Here's how it happened.

Now Forsyth Library at Fort Hays State University has moved to the next generation of online searches.

Apple has unveiled Aperture 3, the latest version of its raw-conversion and photo management software.

NATIVE BOSTONIANS can be rhapsodic about the branch libraries where they came of age intellectually.

A shortage of Librarians is expected in SA schools. Lesley Brideson is the librarian at Linden Park Primary, she is here with Sarah Lloyd .

Surrounded by the likes of Stephen King, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Agatha Christie, Nancy Smith feels right at home.

Online new and used bookseller Alibris has named three winners of the 2010 Alibris Collection Award, sharing a $3000 book grant: North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences , Raleigh; the Burlington County Public Library , Westampton, NJ; and Everett Community College , Everett, WA.

Former Selectman James Thivierge plans to appeal last week's federal jury's decision that ruled it was proper for Mayor Thatcher Kezer to ban him from Town Hall and the library in late 2007.

From deep purples and electric oranges to subtle tans and oceanic teals, the paintings in the Morton Library are all abstract, using those vivid colors and smooth lines to create a contemporary blend.

"It's fun! I love it!" Susan Anderson , the assistant for programs and public relations at Bethel Library , said about the two book discussion groups that meet monthly in the library's historic Seelye Room.

Steven Bell, Associate University Librarian, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA -- Library Journal, 2/4/2010 Probably the last piece of advice academic librarians want to read in an LJ column is that they should start following and reading more blogs and newsletters unrelated to librarianship.

Demolishing a Cedar Rapids church to make space for parking for a new city library won't be as easy as some may think.

In the past few weeks I have called for a total review of book supply to public libraries.

The author and screenwriters of Up in the Air took top honors at the 2010 USC Libraries Scripter Award ceremony.

Librarians might have the stereotype of being meek, quiet types, but they certainly threw the book at the region's state legislative delegation Friday while arguing against cuts in the governor's budget proposal.

The doors on the Campbell library were still locked Saturday morning when an anxious crowd gathered in the drizzling rain.

Throughout February and March 2010, the New Jersey State Library, the New Jersey Library Association and libraries throughout New Jersey plan to honor the legacy of Abraham Lincoln, as part of the national Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commemoration, by collecting pennies.