‘Where the Wild Things Are’ author Maurice Sendak dead at age 83

‘Where the Wild Things Are’ author Maurice Sendak dead at age 83.

Should Libraries Get Out of the E-book Business

A Case for getting out of the e-book business (at least for awhile).  http://librarianbyday.net/2012/03/07/should-libraries-get-out-of-the-ebook-business/

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Administration Day

All Southeastern Public Libraries will be closed on Thursday October 20th for In-Service day.  They will be open on Friday for their usual hours.  Sorry for your inconvenience.

The Little Library That Could | Parade.com

The Little Library That Could | Parade.com.

Internet archivist seeks one of every book written

This is a very interesting article found in the Tulsa World. Tulsa World (OK) - Monday, August 1, 2011 Author: MARCUS WOHLSEN Associated Press RICHMOND, Calif. – Tucked away in a small warehouse on a dead-end street, an Internet pioneer is building a bunker to protect an endangered species: the printed word.Brewster Kahle, 50, founded the nonprofit [...]

E-Books

  E-books have finally come to Southeast Oklahoma.  A system library card is your key to the thousands of e-books available for check out.  After clicking on the e-book icon or visiting eplace.oklibrary.net you  browse and add your choice of books to ‘your picks’.  You are able to check out 3 books at a time.  [...]

Launch of New Website

Southestern Public Library system of Oklahoma is proud to  announce the launch of a new website.  Please take a look at it.  I hope that everyone is pleased.  https://www.oklibrary.net

Kindle Users to Be Able to Borrow Library E-Books

By JULIE BOSMAN Published: April 20, 2011 Library books are finally going to be compatible with the Kindle. Enlarge This Image Emmanuel Dunand/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Amazon’s Kindle. In a reversal, Amazon said e-book lending would begin later this year. Amazon said on Wednesday that it would allow Kindle users to read e-books from [...]

Publisher’s Weekly article on e-books

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