News for Library Nerds, Sept 12, 2014

ACRL looking for feedback on their New Standards for Distance Learning. 

Responsibly crowdsourced Internet research and finding an ISIS training camp. See? Doing online research right is tough but important!

Amazon adding a book every five minutes.

But ditching Amazon may be good for a publisher’s bottom line. 

A book buyer’s lament about Amazon vs. Hachette. 

The greatest innovation: the bookbook (very funny Ikea ad). 

Oldest public library in U.S. at risk of shutting down. 

What are librarians and what do they do? A philosophical investigation. 

Is the library dying? Not quite yet, but maybe? 

Pew tells us that young adults read books and think there’s useful information that’s NOT on the Internet.