My great grandpa would have remembered when Philadelphia Public Library coined the phrase, “Free Books for All.” That was 1891 and he would have known. He was proud to witness the driving of the Golden Spike ( now that was progress), the buggy and wagon’s morph to the automobile, the steam locomotive’s morph to the jet . . . → Read More: "Free For Books for All" going going gone
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Books are going out the door
The Boston Globe reported a week ago that the Cushing Academy, a prestigious prep school in western Massachusetts, is replacing its 20,000-volume book collection with a “learning center” containing 18 eBook readers and three giant TV screens. It’s replacing the reference desk with a $12,000 espresso machine.
“It’s a little strange, but this is the future.”
ALA executive . . . → Read More: Books are going out the door