Today’s stories include: Kobo and Facebook, usage patterns in academic libraries, cost of Kindle lending, and more.

New Zealand

• Auckland Libraries ‘research marathon’ draws a crowd via @genebrarian. (BoK3)

Worldwide

• Kobo reader keeping it social with hooks into Facebook via @paulhayton. (BoK7)
• Report: Book Usage Patterns in Academic Libraries via @pstainthorp. (BoK10)
• Using Tech to Engage Library Users Sparks ITHAKA Conference from @LibraryJournal. (BoK3)
• School libraries replaced with ‘learning commons’ via @ALA_TechSource. (BoK9)
• As we celebrate Library (OverDrive) ebooks on Kindle take a few minutes to think over what we lost in this deal via @librarianbyday. (BoK7)
• My #nls5 and #libcampoz take away messages | @katiedatwork via @malbooth. (BoK9)

These stories are a hand-picked selection of the many being tweeted by a number of top quality library heroes I follow on Twitter.

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