34 Library Stories You May Have Missed in April

Updated on June 26, 2017

April was chock-full of great library-related blog posts, articles, and presentations. Check out this list to get caught up on everything from evaluating the eBook reader market to the EPCOT Center Library! Here are 35 library-related stories you may have missed last month:

  1. 10 Awesome Presentations from Computers in Libraries 2014

  2. License to loan: Academic Library Directors Reject Licensing Agreements

  3. Managing a Library of Congress worth of data

  4. 10 Great Literary Mugs for Librarians

  5. Beginner's guide to the professional book review

  6. Becoming a solo librarian

  7. Keeping Up with MOOCs

  8. Why I don't buy print reference books

  9. Learning to Read:Navigating the ebook reader market

  10. 15 books about libraries and librarians

  11. Rethinking the model for library book groups

  12. Acquiring books and people

  13. Harvard book bound in sheepskin, not human flesh

  14. Libraries are dying? Think again

  15. Which metrics really matter?

  16. 11 stereotype-breaking literary librarians

  17. Things to do before you graduate from library school

  18. A little rant on Little Free Libraries

  19. What Will Become of the Library?

  20. Information literacy: A battle won and lost

  21. The messy world of discovery tools

  22. DPLA to add millions of records

  23. The library ebook situation is appalling

  24. RIP for OED as world's finest dictionary goes out of print

  25. Training the 21st-century library leader

  26. LIS journals: A scholarly communication analysis

  27. Editing Wikipedia in library school

  28. Patrons: Your partners in collection development

  29. Seven big myths about libraries

  30. What enhanced ebooks can do

  31. Marketing ebook collections

  32. The EPCOT Center Outreach Library

  33. 20 Libraries That Changed the World

Many of these articles and blog posts came from the amazing AL Direct electronic newsletter.