Currently reading: Becoming a "Web 2.0 Philanthropy" at Robert Wood Johnson Foundation →

A few more links for your Monday:

• Libraries face a digital future: Lessons from overseas suggest there is more to digital libraries than e-books - The Guardian (Guardian Professional)
• Quietly, Google Puts History Online - New York Times
• Status Report on Wisconsin’s Public Libraries - Paul Everett Nelson, Retiring Guy’s Digest

[ Photo: Linda Nylind for the Guardian ]

"I get frustrated that there are 793 million illiterate people, when the solution is so inexpensive,” Wood told me outside one of his libraries in the Mekong. “If we provide this, it’s no guarantee that every child will take advantage of it. But if we don’t provide it, we pretty much guarantee that we perpetuate poverty."

John Wood, whose “Room to Read” charity has opened 12,000 libraries around the world, as well as 1,500 schools.

Using the Internet: A Guide for High Schoolers, Circa 1996 →

(Source: shrinkinglibrarian)

CIA’s “vengeful librarians” following Twitter, Facebook - Associated Press →

But does the article include a Girl With the Dragon Tattoo reference, you ask? Why, yes it does!

Update:

Those with a masters’ degree in library science and multiple languages, especially those who grew up speaking another language, “make a powerful open source officer,” Naquin said.

A few more links from the last couple days

• Kansas libraries lead way in e-book access
• Library Census Maps 1,000 Federal Libraries
• Hyperlocals and School Coverage: Where’s the Big Picture?