"Alexis Wiles, OverDrive manager of publisher relations, said the report “confirms the benefits that books and authors in library channels enjoy in terms of exposure and discovery to a highly desirable audience. We’ve seen the popularity of both frontlist and midlist titles soar in the library, building a loyal following not only through the volume of impressions, but also in conjunction with targeted publisher campaigns and the various social and readers’ advisory features included in the library websites."

OverDrive Study On How Readers Use Libraries to Find Books - Publishers Weekly

"Despite e-reading platforms’ emphasis on the social capabilities of pixellated consumption — collaborative marginalia, the ability to broadcast what you’re reading to your friends on Facebook, the belief that, overall, there’s a community in every book — it seems that, for the vast majority of Americans, sharing is still very much an analog thing. Pew’s findings are a nice reminder that books’ dynamism comes from the people who share the books, rather than the platforms that help with the sharing."

“Per the Latest Pew Study, the Most Social Way to Read Is Still in Print” - Megan Garber, the Atlantic

"Memories are becoming hyperlinks to information triggered by keywords and URLs. We are becoming ‘persistent paleontologists’ of our own external memories, as our brains are storing the keywords to get back to those memories and not the full memories themselves."

Amber Case, cyberanthropologist and CEO of Geoloqi

(Source: pewinternet.org)

"Sometimes all it takes is a librarian to shake the Web."

Digital Content Curation Is Career for Librarians | Backtalk

An interesting article about how librarians can save us from “filter failure.”

Thanks aaknopf for the LJ link!

(via libraryjournal)

(via libraryjournal)

"There’s a deep relationship between how we organize works, and what it means to know them. And also, what we think they are. Those three questions are all deeply entwined in ways that we didn’t always recognize, I think. Now that we’re able to separate those …we can have multiple playlists so to speak, of knowledge over the same set of information. We lose the sense that we traditionally in the West have had, that is to know something is to see its place in the universe, its single place in the universe."

David Weinberger, author and co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, on CBC Books. He discussed two of the lab’s projects, ShelfLife and LibraryCloud, and their implications for the future of libraries. You can read the full summary and listen to the interview here.