Salem Press has announced its Library Blog Awards. Awards were given in five categories: General Interest, Academic, Public, School and “Quirky” library blogs. First prize in each category is awarded $500, second prize is $250 and third is $100. In addition, the judges qualified approximately 80 blogs (out of a field of 400) as “notable.” [...]

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We’re working on a redesign here at NSR.  Please excuse the oddities you may see in the next couple of days.  The content in the posts should be consistent, it just the colors, fonts, and images that are a bit off right now.

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Thank you for your support, No Shelf Required readers, subscribers, and supporters.  We hit a milestone in March with the 10,000th unique visitor to NSR.  Clearly, ebooks are a hot topic with this much interest in the blog in less than one year.  Let’s keep that interest and conversation going strong.  We welcome your comments, [...]

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Wow, my first member!  Thanks Lora.  I’m glad to see that the resources in NSR are assisting library students too. Dear Sue Polanka, I’m a library student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  I just did a research project on the future of reference books for a collection development class.  In my research I [...]

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Welcome to the new home of No Shelf Required, now hosted at the Wright State University Libraries.  Our new address is:  http://www.libraries.wright.edu/noshelfrequired/ You’ll get the same great content, links, and opportunities to post your comments.  Please update your feeds with the correct address.  Thanks for your participation so far. Sue

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Beginning in April, I plan to do audio interviews with various ebook publishers about….well, ebooks. What do YOU want to know? What publishers do you want to hear from? What would you ask them? Interviews will be posted on the blog. Do any librarians want to be interviewed about ebooks? Give me a holler.

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Dear Collegues, I welcome you to participate in a new blog about eBooks. You’ll find a brief overview of the blog, No Shelf Required, below. It is live and available for your comments now. I hope you can join what will be a lively discussion on all aspects of eBooks in libraries. Regards, Sue Polanka [...]

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