WSL Updates for January 6, 2011
Volume 7, January 6, 2011 for the WSL Updates mailing list Topics include: 1) GO TO THE WEB AND SAY AHH! 2) FIRST TUESDAYS – DISPLAYS THAT POP! 3) FREE EBOOKS FOR YOUR LIBRARY 4) GUIDE TO STATE AND LOCAL WORKFORCE DATA 5) CONNECTING DONORS AND SCHOOL LIBRARIES 6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK
Autobiography with a Side of App
First there was the book – okay, first there were tablets and scrolls and things, and THEN there was the book. Then came the ebook. AKA the e-book, eBook, Ebook, etc. We’ll get that all straightened out one of these days. And now? Now there is the app-book. Courtesy of none other than Sir Stephen Fry, self-described gadget-head, auteur, and world-renowned actor. With the release of his new book, The Fry Chronicles, Penguin Books has simultaneously released an ebook version…
2010: Year of the eBook?
eBooks (and eReaders) have been getting a ton of press over the past couple months, and I have a feeling that they will continue to do so throughout the year. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is happening in Vegas right now, and a lot of the buzz coming out is about ebooks and readers. In case you haven’t been paying attention, though, I’d like to highlight some of my favorite articles and thoughts on ebooks to date and for the…
Inauguration Day
Photograph of Lincoln taken by Alexander Gardner, 1863. On this Inauguration Day, and in anticipation of Abraham Lincoln’s bicentennial in February, we thought it appropriate to revisit Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address, one of the great speeches of American history. The text of the speech is found in the Congressional Globe (1865, pages 1424-1425), which is housed in Washington State Library’s federal collection. President Lincoln delivering his inaugural address on the east portico of the U.S. Capitol, March 4, 1865….