DISQUS

You hit the point on the head. The fact is people want access to books, digital or not, and they shouldn't have to pay for every one to satisfy their need. We should be free to explore ideas and information without always having to pay for it.

Sony Reader is a bit ahead of the kindle on this issue. You can use a Sony Reader with library services like Overdrive, NetLibrary, and others.

Or how safe the parking lot is...

Or how close the parking lot is...

Or where the director parks in proximity to everyone else, including the public

I think part of the issue here is attention. The library could monitor lulu and purchase the top books (technical or otherwise), but the promotion aspect works just as badly. A library could purchase these books and build a collection. However, if nobody uses them, and nobody requested them, then they will just gather dust. The public doesn't know about it enough to let the library know to purchase OR the people who do buy these books don't know a library could buy it for them. Books are purchased more from marketing and more so if the quality matches the hype.

Well, I think the problem with that argument is while it may good for you, it isn't so good for your spouse who may feel isolated without you. They also may not like blogging, especially if they are in the "light but satisfied category". :)

That is what I thought when I first started doing this. I could set up another account for the library and then make the streams specific. I found it was difficult to create a separate account since it is tied to the email address. Unless I wanted to establish several different email accounts for each twitter account, I would be out of luck. Furthermore, I can't parse my RSS feed to genre, subject, or age. I would have to do it manually. I am investigating changing it so it reads that way, but it is very time consuming. Just sending the new books to rss requires almost no interaction. Just set it up and it goes by itself. As long as we don't have an extremely busy day cataloging, it isn't too bad. Over time, people don't like it. Thanks for your response. There are a lot of ways to use twitter, but I believe small and targeted will work best. How to do that is the $64,000 question.

I've been able to feed new items to the twitter stream, http://twitter.com/cglibrary and see my instructions here
http://gathernodust.blogspot.com/2007/04/twitte...

However, the reaction is that most people don't like it. There are too many books and it results in noise instead of signal.

I guess we all better start brushing up on our grammar and look more professional on our blogs. Hey, does this mean we can use a press pass to get into stuff?

Often, the top question is: I want to find everything you have on DVD or CD. Polaris has a way to search everything by using an asterisk and searching by format. Before they did that, you had to type videorecording into every video search and sound recording into every audio search.

Better to show your newest stuff online as it becomes available. It would probably speed up her time if she could subscribe to new audiobooks by email. My library does this. http://cglibrary.org

Many libraries aren't supporting overdrive as much. We need a marketing plan on how to use it. I am planning one for my library.

One more thing: the only way to prevent this yourself is to either truncate your posts, provide just a header post so people using a reader will click through to your post, or to just chalk it up to the "they suck" part of life.

You have to find the internet service provider and have them shut down. You will need to find their ip, which will be tricky. There is no over-arching authority like the do not call list. It is up to the internet service provider to make sure what they are doing is kosher.