If the NY Times says it…

By Meredith Farkas 12/9/2004

The New York Times has an article on how libraries are reaching out online and about the resurgence of e-books. It’s not exactly earth-shattering, but so nice to see the New York Times recognizing what’s going on in libraries today.

Meredith Farkas

Meredith Farkas is a faculty librarian at Portland Community College in Oregon. From 2007-2021, she wrote the monthly column “Technology in Practice” for American Libraries. Meredith was honored in 2014 with the ACRL Instruction Section Innovation Award, in 2008 and 2011 with the WISE Excellence in Online Education Award and in 2009 with the LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology. She has been writing the blog Information Wants to be Free since 2004.

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