Springer is digitising its out of print books

From Research Information:The anticipated demand for older book titles is based partly on the publishers’ experience with its journal archive. ‘For customers who’ve purchased the journal archive, 20-25 per cent of usage on SpringerLink is of journal content from before 1997,’ noted Willems. ‘And the value of older books is even higher than for old journals so we believe that demand will be high.’

The majority of the books will be available as searchable PDFs, with an accompanying XML file that contains bibliographic information and references. ‘

The Digital World Demands a New Mode of Reading

This is interesting!  Professor says that he reads more now due technology.
"...The owner of a Kindle and an iPad, Mr. Jacobs [ an English professor from Wheaton College]  feels he reads more now because of technology, not in spite of it. "Some of that, I think, is Kindles and iPads allowing me to have so much to read at my fingertips," he says. "Pre e-reading, I watched more TV because if there wasn't something I wanted to read near to hand, I would just pick up the remote...."

I am inclined to agree with him  -  the Internet has opened up so many avenues for discovery and exploration which were not available to us before - Eileen.

Learning Disabilities and Disorders Affecting Learning

I am sure staff will remember the sessions we attended last year about services for people with disabilities and how the Library can help them.

Denise Nicholson from Wits Library has created a comprehensive LibGuide on Learning Disabilities and Disorders Affecting Learning - do have a look at it.

ACRLog - Blogging by and for academic and research librarians

Well, Twitter has demonstrated its usefulness to me today, with a tweet alerting me to a post on the the ACRLog - blogging by and for academic & research librarians. Those who haven't seen this blog - please do, plenty of relevant posts for us.