Digital libraries, e-libraries, Kindle library all this sounds very interesting. With just one click one can have access to e-books, archives of one institute, or repositories of an institution. Publishers are also coming up with policy of pay per chapter on your mobile display. Recently Encyclopedia Britannica announced the launch of e-library in schools. As new technology is developing new modes of catering to the masses are also coming up.

by Saudamini Jain. Hindustan Times Brunch, November 22, 2015

So here’s the thing about Indian publishing: for all of this year, it’s been in the news – and it’s made big news.

In January, the Jaipur Literature Festival declared that it was going to expand beyond the Pink City to travel all the way to London and Colorado, and it did. In April, publisher Chiki Sarkar and four others resigned from Penguin Random House India to launch a new publishing house, Juggernaut, which will introduce pay-by-chapter reading on mobile platforms. In October, in addition to the countless (and counting!) literary festivals in the country, another one was held in – no, really – cyberspace.

Nov 08 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai)

Meghna Mukherjee

Books are a man's best friend. And when it's pre-winter, the bookworms often head to the many old libraries around the city for hours of relaxed reading sessions.Rows upon rows of shelves, the smell of old books and the silence -for a book lover, there's no greater place than a library and no greater feeling than cooking up new ideas there. We take a look at some of the most amazing bookstores across the world that provide you with much more than just a quiet reading zone. Read on to find more.

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These days, people love their e-readers — and it’s no wonder! Being able to read books on a screen is the biggest change in how humans read since the invention of the printing press! When else in human history could you find millions of books literally at the touch of your fingertips, and without even having to leave your house? E-readers are the BEST.

But even the best things in life come with downsides. Here are a few of the things that drive e-book lovers like us CRAZY.

The Internet Archive and Open Library offers over 8,000,000 fully accessible public domain eBooks. This includes a special modern collection of over 500,000 eBooks for users with print disabilities, and a very interesting curated, modern collection for the world at large. You can browse, read and borrow fascinating contemporary materials at Openlibrary.org

The Huffington Post  |  By  Claire Fallon

When we imagine libraries 100 years from now, many of us might picture sterile environments more like computer labs than book depositories -- or even cloud-based apps from which we’ll be able to access digital books without moving from our seats. It’s not a vision print book-lovers savor.

For artist Katie Paterson, books remain inextricably bound with the earth and the paper they’re printed on. This relationship inspired her project "Future Library," in which she's commissioning authors to help write 100 works to be kept in the trust for 100 years. They will be published in a limited-edition anthology in 2114, on paper made from 1,000 Norwegian spruce trees planted near Oslo last year.

If a person is looking for a place to download free audio books below are the sites that offer free download.

Innovation are an important concepts in library today. In order to remain relevant to their patrons the library needs to constantly evolve itself. From traditional role of providing information, libraries are adopting and making use of web 2.0 services in order to be more accessible to the users. New technologies are impacting the day to day handling of library activities. Web 2.0 applications like blogs, IM, podcasts, RSS, social networks, tagging or social bookmarking, and wikis are now a part of library activities to involve the users or rather attract them to libraries.

An understanding of these components is needed as a general frame work in order to understand how libraries can use them to their fullest potential and where they may lead them in the near future.

Digital or electronic content, such as e-books, photographs on Web sites and electronic databases are subject to the same protections under the Copyright Act as non-digital, traditional or analog works. In addition, there are specific provisions relating to digital content in the 1998 amendment to the Copyright Act by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in journals, books, patent document, thesis, project reports, news papers, conference/ seminar proceedings, documents published in internet, notes and any other approved documents. It measure the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals of higher journal impact factors deemed to be more important than those with lower ones. Journal Impact factors are calculated in yearly/half- yearly/ Quarterly/Monthly for those journals that are indexed in Journal Reference Reports (JRR). 

The steep price of high quality software prevents libraries from using them. To tackle this issue many library communities have developed software that are free of cost. They are known as free/open source software which are widely available on the internet, and can be downloaded, installed and distributed freely.

Literature review is an essential part of academic research project. It is a careful examination of a body of literature pointing towards the answer to the research question. Literature covers everything relevant that is written on a topic: books, journal articles, newspaper articles, historical records, government reports, theses and dissertations etc. It includes scholarly journal, scholarly books, authoritative databases and primary sources.