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:
- 10 Awesome Presentations from Computers in Libraries 2014
- License to loan: Academic Library Directors Reject Licensing Agreements
- Managing a Library of Congress worth of data
- 10 Great Literary Mugs for Librarians
- Beginner's guide to the professional book review
- Becoming a solo librarian
- Keeping Up with MOOCs
- Why I don't buy print reference books
- Learning to Read: Navigating the ebook reader market
- 15 books about libraries and librarians
- Rethinking the model for library book groups
- Acquiring books and people
- Harvard book bound in sheepskin, not human flesh
- Libraries are dying? Think again
- Which metrics really matter?
- 11 stereotype-breaking literary librarians
- Things to do before you graduate from library school
- A little rant on Little Free Libraries
- What Will Become of the Library?
- Information literacy: A battle won and lost
- The messy world of discovery tools
- DPLA to add millions of records
- The library ebook situation is appalling
- RIP for OED as world's finest dictionary goes out of print
- Training the 21st-century library leader
- LIS journals: A scholarly communication analysis
- Editing Wikipedia in library school
- Patrons: Your partners in collection development
- Seven big myths about libraries
- What enhanced ebooks can do
- Marketing ebook collections
- The EPCOT Center Outreach Library
- 20 Libraries That Changed the World
Many of these articles and blog posts came from the amazing AL Direct electronic newsletter.