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Every year, immediately following Christmas, Keller Public Library Director Pam Trammell said numerous patrons arrive at the library with their new electronic reading devices seeking help. Read the full article here to learn more about how this library...

ABA Conference - Boston 2014

The SLA Awards and Honors Committee is seeking nominations of extraordinary individuals who have made a significant impact on, or notable strides in, the information profession and SLA. Selected nominees will be honored for their achievements at the SLA...

KYL recognizes that it is no longer sufficient for a firm to claim to be something—secure, efficient, innovative. Clients demand evidence. Read the full article in Legal Tech News here .

Agreement provides exclusive third-party aggregation rights for critical legal news and information ALM , a leader in specialized news and information for the legal, consulting, insurance, finance and real estate industries, and LexisNexis® Legal...

There are certainly a lot of misconceptions about ebooks—that they can’t be nicely-designed, that they are worth less than print, that reading them is a “less-than” experience. None of these things are true. But they will become...

It's safe to say that e-books disrupted the publishing industry. But sales have leveled off and not entirely for the reasons some have reported. Listen to the story or read the full transcript from NPR here .

Over the course of 2015 there has been a number of notable new e-readers that have hit the market. With so many models to choose from, what features is the average customer looking for? Two weeks ago Good E Reader asked the question What do you look for...

Vienna, Austria was the location for this year’s IBA Annual Conference, October 4-9, attracting 6,000 lawyers from more than 100 countries. The IBA is the world’s leading organization of international legal practitioners, bar associations...

Lexis Nexis and the International Bar Association presented Carr Center Fellow Federica D’Alessandra with the William Reece Jr Award in recognition of her ‘work and achievements to date’, and her 'commitment to professional and ethical...

At the international Frankfurt Book Fair, OverDrive announced a significant global expansion. Adding 300,000 titles to its catalog, the ebook provider now offers books to schools and libraries in over 50 countries and in 50 languages. OverDrive added...

The New York Times has just unveiled a brand new program called Digital Day Passes. The day pass will will grant access to the publication’s website and apps for the day to anyone that buys the print edition of the newspaper. The company describes...

Nader Qaimari, Senior Vice President of Content Solutions and Services, Follett, to participate in this series of interviews addressing libraries’ evolving role in using the latest technology to connect patrons to the information, tools, and services...

At a press conference in the Vatican on Wednesday, a new online digital library was launched, offering access to over a thousand papal documents on communications from the first to the twenty-first century. The initiative, known as the Baragli Project...

Today, when people want information on the Internet, they turn to Google. All of this is good news for Google and anyone with money for a computer and Internet connection. But it's not great for libraries, the go-to for information in the pre-Google...

A draft report commissioned by the Society of Chief Librarians (SCL) has said funds should be invested in digital services over the next three years to prevent libraries from becoming “soup kitchens for the written word.” The document outlines...

The Kobo Glo HD was released earlier in the year, and people were really attracted to the high resolution reading experience. This device is comparable to the 3rd generation Kindle Paperwhite, except with Kobo you can do more advanced things like load...

OverDrive, the leading eBook and audiobook platform for schools, announced that nearly 13,000 schools and districts representing more than five million students from 41 countries have access to digital books this school year. More schools and educators...

The mythical iPad Pro has finally been officially announced by Apple, and it might be the best tablet e-reading device ever. It can run two iPad Air apps side by side and comes with many optional accessories such as a keyboard that can dock with it and...

LexisNexis® Digital Library provides value for students, faculty and alumni Suffolk University places a high value on technology and innovation that prepares students for the future of the legal profession. For example, the University offers a...

What we can learn as we strive to widen the digital consumption of books is how to improve the user journey—how to best not only what is out there digitally, but to improve on how books are discovered, bought and read in the offline world as well...

Secretary of State Jesse White – who’s also the state librarian – announced Friday the Illinois State Library will become a “service hub” for the Digital Public Library of America. The digital library was launched in 2013...

The National Conference of Bar Presidents/National Association of Bar Executives/National Conference of Bar Foundations (NCBP/NABE/NCBF) Joint Luncheon in Chicago was the platform for a keynote address by Ian McDougall, EVP and General Counsel for LexisNexis...

Reading eBooks on the iPhone lets you use large or small font, take notes and see definitions without leaving an eBook app for iPhone. Read the full article from GottaBe Mobile here.