Wrap-up: New Librarianship in the age of ebook

Last Wednesday, Library Journal and School of Library Journal hosted a virtual summit on ebook: Ebooks: Libraries at The Tipping Point. The summit drew over 2100 attendees from public libraries, academic libraries and vendors. You can read LJ's summary here.

Prof. R. David Lankes, from School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, made a closing keynote: The New Librarianship in the Age of the Ebook, (video | slides | mp3) and here I'm trying to wrap-up his ideas and envisions in the presentation.

Ebooks versus paper books

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I'm not a fan of Ereader, or Ebooks, I prefer physical books in hand. But I'm very interested in the ebook/ereader trend and how it will impact the way of reading, thinking and publishing. Reading habit of adapting to ereader or not is more of a choice on a personal basis and I hope to discuss the issue from a general perspective.

Using Nook?!

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After using a Nook for three hours, I put it on my bookshelf and haven't touched it for two weeks. The experience is not delighting at all, and I was kind of wondering, "seriously, they really put the product in the market for sale?"