Today’s links of interest:
- Italy updates rights of authors
Sort of. Better transparency, use of technology allowed, but, wow, don’t rush the check to the author. - Moneychangers have set up shop in my temple – a cafe has taken over the library’s fiction section
Worrying about the future of public libraries, which makes us think that, yeah, it’s time to ask the real question: what is a library and what will it be in the future? - Diaz And Danticat Among 2007 NBCC Winners
List of winners great and small. - Public libraries told to innovate or die out
But whatever you do, don’t expect an increase in budget. Innovate on the cheap. Right. - Children turn off the TV and open a book instead
We can’t keep up. Are books destroying today’s youth or saving them? Can’t the media make up its mind?