5 laws of library science

• Books are for use.• Every reader his [sic] book.• Every book its reader.• Save the time of the reader.• The library is a growing organism.

(Ranganathan as cited in Simpson, 2008)

Simpson, C. (2008). Five Laws. Library Media Connection, 26 (7), 6.

5 laws of library science

• Media are for use. • Every patron his information. • Every medium its user. • Save the time of the patron. • The library is a growing organism.

(Simpson, 2008)

Simpson, C. (2008). Five Laws. Library Media Connection, 26 (7), 6.

3 laws of extensive reading?

• Make it more interesting• Make it more comprehensible• Make it easier to find other books

to read.(Krashen, 2012)

Krashen, S. (2012). The Route to Academic Language Proficiency. The 5th Annual JALT ER Seminar Plenary. Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Nagoya, Japan.

• Traditional publishers don’t own copyright to all material.

• Multitude of book publishers (many parties, less agreement)

• Digital Rights Management Systems (DMR) is “digital gold”.

• Silliness: HarperCollins 26 Circs for e-books / no interlibrary loans

Buczynski, J. A. (2010). Library ebooks: Some can't find them, others find them and don't know what they are. Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 15(1), 11-19.

“Clearly a shakeout needs to happen in the next year or two if the industry is to have any hope of averting an outbreak of mass piracy and file sharing like the music industry and movie industry in experiencing” (p. 13).

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"I'm definitely a strong believer in DRM-free products. My only real concern with Atama-ii Books and PDF is quality control; because of the structure of multi-path books, plus the fact we have so many colour illustrations, I need to make sure a PDF version is feasible. But we're definitely going to try to figure it out.” Marcos Benevides

Benevides, M. (2014). Personal Communication

Thank you.Questions, comments, or suggestions?