News for Library Nerds, Februray 14, 2014

The Dept of Ed’s biennial report on Academic Libraries is out. 

In case you need some reading that makes you nod slowly in agreement: Library Babel Fish’s thoughts on the journal and the difference between how undergraduates and experts see the information landscape. That's also why students see articles as individual things, while scholars see them as contributions to a conversation (an earlier post of hers).  

Wikipedia highlights the difficulty of creation and editing in a mobile world. Small screens are for looking, not making. Well, except for those cell phone novels.

Americans LOVE their libraries!

But Americans aren’t showing much love for foreign literature. (With the exception of Murakami, when was the last time I read a translated book? Clearly, I need to up my game . . . as soon as I finish The Goldfinch.)

Is Amazon good for books? 

The list of America’s most literate cities is out. Hooray for the Twin Cities, who are both on the list! Of course, the fact that I can't take a walk without running into a Little Free Library pretty much shows we've got books coming out of our ears around here.