At a recent speaking engagement, I was asked, “Why do we need libraries if we can just download books for free?” Simply put, libraries don’t get books for free but loan them to patrons for free. It ...
Traditionally, you need a library card to access physical books and library facilities. But in today’s digital world, things have changed, as we all know. Today, we read e-books on e-readers, thus ...
If you have a digital library, you know the struggle: a growing mountain of PDFs, research papers, and ebooks scattered across folders and cloud drives. It doesn’t feel like a library since you can’t ...
KUOW recently reported that the King County Library System was the second-most popular library across the United States, digitally speaking. That inspired a great question from a reader: What the heck ...
Libraries worldwide broke digital lending records last year as Overdrive, the company that operates Libby and Sora, recently reported seeing more than 739 million borrows of audiobooks, e-books and ...
Do you have a library card? If you are an avid reader, or even just an occasional one, a library card can be a huge money saver. The price of a single book can range widely, but many fall somewhere ...