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Information Today June 30, 2011 |
Serials Solutions Developing New Web-Scale Management Solution The new Serials Solutions service will address the industry's fundamental shift to electronic content, while still supporting librarians' needs to manage their print and local collections. |
Information Today November 16, 2009 |
Serials Solutions Announces New Ebooks Metadata Normalization Process To enable normalization of ebooks metadata, Serials Solutions metadata librarians have developed algorithms that efficiently aggregate and authoritatively link data from all available sources. |
D-Lib December 1999 |
Editorial As publications become available both online and in print, some groups of users find that they prefer the online versions. But in relinquishing the tradition of print journals, libraries require more than a few assurances from the publisher on whom they must depend... |
Information Today September 17, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases 2013 Serials Price Projections Report This report, based on surveys of a wide range of publishers and reviews of historical serials pricing data, provides serials price projections that will assist information professionals as they make budgeting decisions for the upcoming renewal season. |
T.H.E. Journal March 2000 |
FYI - Sagebrush Corp. Sagebrush Corp. joins Winnebago Software Co. |
Information Today January 28, 2008 |
Serials Solutions Launches Enhanced 360 Services Serials Solutions has introduced KnowledgeWorks, a new name for the foundation integrated into every one of the Serials Solutions 360 e-resource access, management, and assessment services. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2004 |
FYI ... Sagebrush Corp. Created especially for school libraries, Sagebrush's MARC Source offers quality records for materials often not cataloged by traditional sources such as paperback books, series books and other K-12 materials. |
Information Today October 6, 2015 |
EBSCO Rolls Out 2016 Serials Price Projections EBSCO Information Services introduced its "Serials Price Projections for 2016," which notes that the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and medical libraries is expected to be 4%-6%. |
Information Today June 3, 2010 |
Serials Solutions Developing Access Control Service Access Control Service will simplify the process of accessing library resources from remote locations, combine data management with access control, and eliminate the current requirement for IT resources to implement and manage this service. |
Information Today October 20, 2008 |
Serials Solutions Enhances Its 360 E-Resource Access and Management Services For librarians, this means an increased number of resources available by federated search and better search results for patrons. |
Information Today June 10, 2002 Barbara Quint |
QuestionPoint Marks New Era in Virtual Reference QuestionPoint stems from an arrangement between the Library of Congress' Public Service Collections Directorate and OCLC to provide libraries with access to a growing collaborative network of reference librarians in the U.S. and around the world. |
Searcher March 2001 Barbara Quint |
On Myths: A Letter to Non-Subscribers As for that misty mystical myth of some Golden Age of Libraries where all truth was handmade and hand delivered and all patrons were gratefully enriched by the blessed hands of librarians scattering largesse throughout the land...pull the other one, I'm starting to walk funny... |
T.H.E. Journal May 2004 |
News Briefs - LAUSD's Library System The Los Angeles Unified School District has recently chosen Sagebrush to centralize the district's library system by implementing the company's Web-based centralized library automation system, or CLAS, this spring. |
Information Today December 8, 2008 |
Serials Solutions Launches Online Community The community features forums, discussion boards, private messaging, RSS feeds, and more. |
D-Lib October 2000 Carol Hansen Montgomery |
Electronic Journal Collections Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs: A Framework and Preliminary Observations... |
Searcher June 2010 |
The Care and Feeding of Vendors How can we info pros working for clients, especially those of us working in libraries with still influential budgets, push, prod, coax, urge, nudge, nag, coerce, lure, whatever, our vendor partners toward the light? |
Information Today August 7, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Amazon Library Processing Prepares Books for Library Shelves Now libraries can order books and other media, such as CDs and DVDs, from Amazon and receive the material ready to go from box to shelf. |
Information Today July 25, 2011 |
Serials Solutions Releases Coverage Analysis of Summon Discovery Service Serials Solutions released a new list of key databases and packages, as well as updated comprehensive lists of the serials titles and publishers available in the Summon index, providing librarians with even greater visibility into the quality content indexed in the Summon service. |
Information Today June 3, 2014 Nancy K. Herther |
Playing the Numbers: NISO/NASIG Focus On Best Practices for Library Usage Statistics The National Information Standards Organization, and the North American Serials Interest Group co-sponsored a webinar intended to "effectively understand and apply usage data," which is an important skill for librarians. |
Information Today October 2001 Richard Poynder |
IT Feature: The Open Source Movement Linux (or more accurately GNU/Linux) is just the tip of the iceberg. Today there is a wide range of open source software available, and new projects are being started all the time. What, though, do we mean when we talk about open source software? |
Searcher April 2012 Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
Information Today June 23, 2003 |
News Digest Techstreet Introduces Customizable Subscription Service... OneSource Adds IT Data to Business Browser... Library Group Launches New Subscription Management Tool |
Information Today February 19, 2008 Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Acquires Federated Search Provider WebFeat The acquisition serves to reduce the number of key contenders in the federated search market, brings a big advantage to Serials Solutions in competing effectively, and definitely puts pressure on the competition. |
Information Today September 2001 Marshall Breeding |
The ALA Annual Conference 2001 This showcase featured the latest in library automation trends and announcements... |
Information Today February 3, 2003 |
NewsBreaks Weekly News Digest Congressional Quarterly Redesigns CQ.com... Ingenta Announces New Publishing Partners... Bowker Launches New Serials Management System |
D-Lib April 2001 |
To the Editor In response to the opinion piece, The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the "Big Deal"... |
ONLINE November 2000 Mick O'Leary |
Grading the Library Portals The ideal library portal will have the most thorough coverage possible in several areas of the library profession for all types of libraries... |
Information Today January 26, 2009 Barbara Quint |
Single Interface Library Service From Serials Solutions: The Summon Referred to by Serials Solutions staff as a "unified discovery service," the new interface provides a single search box -- a la Google -- that can reach out to all the digital sources available through library licensing and all the digitally identified physical resources |
Searcher April 2004 Barbara Quint |
Governance The concept of universal service to all has been the impossible dream of librarians. Now technology has brought us the opportunity to make that dream a reality. But our governance reins us in, holds us back, keeps us from reaching up and out to that grand goal. |
Information Today January 5, 2009 |
Serials Solutions Introduces Resource Manager Consortium Edition Now consortia can manage holdings, subscription, licensing, contact, and cost information for their group and streamline delivery of information to all group members. |
Information Today April 25, 2011 |
Swets and Innovative Interfaces Link Up for Data Interchange Swets, an information services company, and Innovative Interfaces, Inc. a library automation provider, announced that they have successfully established a range of electronic data interchange connections between their proprietary systems |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2009 Nelson et al. |
FEATURE: Implementing Federated Search at the University of Wyoming The allure of federated searching is potent in academic libraries. Students and faculty want to streamline their searching across web-based search engines, library collections, and the bibliographic databases to which the library subscribes. |
Searcher August 2002 Cynthia L. Shamel |
Building a Brand: Got Librarian? Librarians need to do a better job of getting their message out (and conveying a sense of their usefulness) to the business community at large. |
Searcher October 2003 Marylaine Block |
How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet The unrestrained freedom of the Net has caused conservative organizations and staid, sober lawmakers to view libraries as pornography parlors and librarians as corrupters of youth. As a result, librarians have borne the brunt of an astonishing amount of ill-advised and unconstitutional legislation. |
Information Today April 5, 2010 Kathy Dempsey |
Serials Solutions Launches SaaS Version of AquaBrowser AquaBrowser is still billed as an "inviting, easy, intuitive" interface that "meets the demands and expectations of today's web-wise user (or impatient novices) who want immediate results and relevant content from a variety of sources |
Information Today April 2001 Barbara Quint |
Possible-Recession Planning: Part Two What would this mean for information professionals and their vendors? At first glance, one can clearly see the ouch factor for already imperiled corporate and institutional librarians... |
ONLINE Nov./Dec. 2006 Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage - Perspectives, Perceptions, and Periscopes Librarians share the same perspective when naming their type of library. Perceptions of libraries, however, differ, depending on perspective. |
Information Today November 17, 2003 Paula J. Hane |
Cornell and Other University Libraries to Cancel Elsevier Titles Cornell University Library has posted a list of about 200 Elsevier journal titles it is canceling for 2004. Harvard University says it is preparing for similar cuts in its Elsevier subscriptions. It's journal renewal time and the strain of the tough decision making is evident. |
Information Today January 11, 2010 |
Serials Solutions Partners With Springshare LibGuides Together, they will provide the first ERAMS-based LibGuides integration, enabling common subscribers to create LibGuides A-Z lists powered by the e-resource data of Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks knowledgebase. |
Information Today August 2000 |
TLC Unveils New Version of Site.Solution The Library Corporation (TLC) has announced the release of a powerful new version of its Site.Solution product, designed to enable libraries of all sizes and types to create new, or dramatically enhanced, Web sites---easily, affordably, and quickly. |
Information Today November 12, 2015 |
OCLC Research Shares Patron Behavior Study Findings It offers an overview of user-behavior findings for librarians, information scientists, and library and information science students and researchers so they can plan for future user-centered library services. |
Information Today June 2, 2015 |
3M Cloud Library Provides Enhancements for Patrons and Librarians They will offer a redesigned web patron interface for easier browsing and the ability for librarians to reclassify ebooks' age ranges. |
Information Today December 3, 2009 |
Serials Solutions Completes Beta Testing of New 360 Search The new service, which will be commercially released in mid-December, combines the best features of the Serials Solutions 360 Search and WebFeat platforms with new and improved capabilities. |
Information Today August 11, 2008 |
Serials Solutions to Offer ebrary Titles Through KnowledgeWorks This provider of econtent services and technology has announced that it has become the first ebook provider to become Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks Certified. |
Information Today December 3, 2013 |
Intota Assessment Streamlines Library Analytics Intota Assessment gives libraries a total picture of their monographs and serials in electronic and print formats so they can make data-driven decisions about collection development. |
Information Today April 26, 2012 |
Serials Solutions Announces Intota Development Partners Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business unit, announced the institutions that are collaborating with the company to develop Intota, a Software-as-a-Service solution that supports the entire resource lifecycle for libraries. |
Information Today August 2001 Marshall Breeding |
IOLS Conference Morphs into E-Libraries While tradition and continuity are important, conferences need to evolve over time if they are to remain relevant... |
Searcher August 2006 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Fear of Success There is terror that haunts the careers of so many librarians, the notion that some promotional effort, some marketing strategy designed to prove the library's worth will actually succeed and end up putting unendurable pressure on finite library resources. |
D-Lib September 2006 Choi & Rasmussen |
What Is Needed to Educate Future Digital Librarians: A Study of Current Practice and Staffing Patterns in Academic and Research Libraries Digital libraries are the future of academic and research institutions, and digital professionals will be required to have more breadth and depth of knowledge and skills across the dimensions of traditional library knowledge, technology, and human relations. |
Information Today November 17, 2011 |
New Resources From NoveList to Connect Library Patrons to Services The NoveList website and a corresponding Facebook page have been designed to help librarians connect their patrons to more books and more library services. |