Time magazine Best Inventions of the Year The Espresso Book Machine—meaning “fast,” not coffee—can churn out a 300-page paperback on demand, complete with color cover, in just 3 min. The $50,000 machine could transform libraries into minibookstores, making hard-to-find titles as accessible as cappuccinos. At $3 a book they might be cheaper too.

Future Reading by Anthony Grafton New Yorker magazine 11/05/07 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/05/071105fa_fact_grafton

Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web New York Times report on research libraries and digital collections.

A new video – Information R/evolution from Michael Wesch, who did The Machine Is Us/ing Us

Article in today’s New York Times: Library of Congress Advances 2 Digital Projects Abroad

There’s a new set of photos from today’s workshop–Licensing Electronic Resources: An Introduction–led by our Associate Director Ruth Dukelow. Click here to view the photos.

Photos from MLC’s Annual Meeting have been posted to our account on Flickr. Click here to view them.

Photos from the September 21 program led by Deberah England have been posted to MLC’s Flickr account. See the new set here.

MHSLA, the Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association is having their annual conference in Bay City at the Doubletree Hotel, from September 26-28. I had the pleasure of working at the MLC table on Thursday. And enjoyed meeting with many of our MLC members. Well, while enjoying my wonderful taco bar lunch we were treated to …Read more »

The New York Times has an interesting article today about eBooks and the new “Kindle” reader coming from Amazon. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/technology/06amazon.html