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27 Dec 2013, 9:41 am
This is the last article David Rothman's current series mapping out a path for planners of America's digital libraries. [read post]
22 Jun 2014, 4:01 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Via LLRX.com - The sad reasons why Amazon’s #1 reading city doesn’t belong on the list - In this article David Rothman highlights the backstory on Amazon’s new list of America’s “Top 20 Most Well-Read Cities,” based on its sales of books, magazines and newspapers. [read post]
27 Apr 2014, 3:36 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Via LLRX.com - The limits of ‘Hack the library’: Don’t aim for too much more with too much less–and try harder for more - David Rothman emphasizes the impact of the fact that less than 12 percent of U.S. public library spending goes for books and other items. [read post]
29 Dec 2013, 4:11 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Via LLRX.com - Voice Dream text-to-speech app can now play audiobooks, too, and soon you may be able to hear audios of PDFs while seeing the original layouts David Rothman gives kudos to the latest version of the Voice Dream text-to-speech app that can now play audiobooks. [read post]
2 Mar 2014, 1:25 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Via LLRX.com - Costco stores as role models for Internet-era public libraries (caveats ahead) David Rothman cautions that the rage is to compare everything in creation to a business. [read post]
3 Aug 2014, 1:39 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Via LLRX.com - Cell phone book club vision excites school librarian Njabulo Tazibona in Zimbabwe: How he can make it reality A follow-up from David Rothman’s article earlier this month, Cell phone book clubs: A new way for libraries to promote literacy, technology, family and community - he shares that while U.S. librarians mull over LibraryCity’s proposal for cell phone book clubs, an African librarian already is embracing the possibilities if he can win… [read post]
27 Jul 2014, 4:39 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
In this cutting-edge essay, David Rothman tells how libraries could use “cell phone book clubs” to reach out both to young cell phone users and their families, including low-income people and members of racial and ethnic minorities. [read post]
26 Sep 2022, 7:34 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Rothman, is its history of how we got into the mess in the first place. [read post]
2 Dec 2014, 3:13 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
 – David Rothman cites and discusses two British research studies that conclude “reading for pleasure puts children ahead in the classroom” and “those who had regularly read for pleasure at 10 scored 67 per cent in the age 42 vocabulary test, whereas infrequent childhood readers scored only 51 per cent. [read post]
8 Mar 2015, 2:54 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Via LLRX.com – Book review: ‘Bexar BiblioTech: The Evolution of the Country’s First All-digital Public Library’ – David Rothman describes why the BiblioTech library in Bexar County, Texas is a landmark achievement worthy of implementation and iteration in towns and cities throughout the US. [read post]
2 Sep 2013, 2:28 pm
David Rothman makes a case that the time has come for a coherent national strategy to help speed up digitization of library systems like Miami’s and use the efficiencies of e-books and other digital items to squeeze more out of tax dollars—while also increasing the total amount of money for libraries and content. [read post]
8 Mar 2015, 1:40 pm
David Rothman describes why the BiblioTech library in Bexar County, Texas is a landmark achievement worthy of implementation and iteration in towns and cities throughout the US. [read post]
1 Sep 2014, 12:58 pm
David Rothman discusses how his Washington, D.C. suburb and in countless other places, U.S. schools are buying tablets for students, and each city could potentially be a test bed for the ideas in this commentary. [read post]
26 Oct 2013, 7:46 pm
A new, expert and insightful investigatory report by David Rothman focuses on the new Kindle Fire HDXes. [read post]
1 Sep 2014, 1:00 pm
David Rothman believes that the cell phone book club idea is timely right now. [read post]