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D-Lib August 2008 Bonita Wilson |
A Few Words of Appreciation to Digital Library Conference Organizers Among the many benefits of attending such conferences is the opportunity to network in person with others involved with digital libraries in one way or another |
Information Today June 6, 2011 |
OCLC Web-scale Management Services on Target for July 1 Release In addition to the 32 committed libraries in the U.S., BIBSYS, the Norwegian library consortium signed an agreement with OCLC to base its new library management system on Web-scale Management Services, which will include management tools for more than 100 libraries in Norway. |
D-Lib August 2006 Blandford & Gow |
Digital Libraries in the Context of Users' Broader Activities: JCDL 2006 Workshop Report The JCDL workshop brought together researchers with an interest in designing digital libraries, and those who study information seeking and use in context, to exchange ideas and insights, and create new interaction possibilities. |
D-Lib January 2000 Bonita Wilson |
Editorial Stepping back to look at the purpose of digital libraries. |
Information Today April 18, 2013 |
New OCLC Registry Service Shines a Spotlight on Libraries OCLC announced that libraries can increase their visibility on the web by registering basic local information with the OCLC Library Spotlight program, a free service that works with popular web services to promote libraries. |
Information Today August 26, 2010 |
"Geek the Library" Campaign Now Available to All U.S. Libraries The campaign is designed to highlight the vital role of public libraries in today's challenging economic environment and to increase local library support. |
Search Engine Watch December 14, 2009 Ron Jones |
Usability and SEM 101, Part 2 More tips on Web usability, SEO, behavioral design, and how Web accessibility factors in. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2000 |
Late Breaks - Endeavor Information Systems In association with Endeavor Information Systems, Sun Microsystems' technology is the incubator for a full-featured digital library solution, called ENCompass... |
Information Today August 13, 2012 |
ALA Releases Report on Ebook Business Models for Public Libraries The report, which was created by the ALA Digital Content and Libraries Working Group, suggests opportunities for publishers to showcase content through public libraries. |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2003 Thomas Pack |
Fiddling with the Internet Dials: Understanding Usability Content providers that want to make working with online information easier can follow usability guidelines to design their systems and services, but what exactly does usability mean now that we are a few decades into the digital information revolution? |
D-Lib April 2006 Bonita Wilson |
Change and the Need for Innovation Numerous challenges face libraries and other information organizations in this time of rapid change in both technology and culture. |
Information Today June 21, 2010 |
IMLS Launches National Campaign to Promote Community Engagement The national campaign, Making the Learning Connection, is intended to help communities assess their needs and contribute to a shared vision for 21st century learning. |
D-Lib July 2001 Hans Roes |
Digital Libraries and Education: Trends and Opportunities This article attempts to identify strategic issues for libraries wishing to pursue a more active policy with regard to the changes affecting higher education due to the increased use of information and communication technologies... |
D-Lib January 2005 Bonita Wilson |
User-Centered Design It is of the utmost importance to keep users foremost in mind when developing tools or designing interfaces for digital libraries. |
Information Today August 27, 2015 |
IFLA Statement Encourages Advocacy for Patron Privacy The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions released the "IFLA Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment." |
Information Today July 22, 2014 |
OCLC Gets Grant to Promote Early Literacy in Public Libraries OCLC's project will increase libraries' awareness of the new service model and help library staff members and administrators support their early literacy services. |
D-Lib June 2008 |
A New Website Devoted to Envisioning the Future of Libraries In an information world in which Google apparently offers us everything, what place is there for the traditional, and even the digital, library? |
D-Lib October 2004 Jonas Holmstrom |
Report on the 8th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2004): 12 - 16 September 2004, Bath, United Kingdom The conference presentations gave an excellent overview of current digital library research projects. Digital libraries are created for an increasingly diverse and distributed user community. |
Information Today July 29, 2014 |
ALA Survey Reveals Statistics on Technology in Libraries The survey found that almost 100% of U.S. public libraries provide workforce development training programs, online resources for finding jobs, and other technology skills training. |
Information Today August 6, 2009 |
Open Library Environment Project Draft Final Report Available The resulting OLE platform is predicated on service-oriented architecture and a community-source model of development and governance. |
InternetNews October 28, 2009 |
Libraries Give Vista Apps a Windows 7 Look Developer tools help assure Vista users enjoy a similar look and feel of Windows 7 apps. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2010 Laurence Lannom |
Repositories and One More Thing Are repositories primarily storage mechanisms, primarily access mechanisms, mainly about technology, mainly about policy, or some combination of the above? |
ONLINE May/Jun 2011 Danielle Becker |
Usability Testing on a Shoestring: Test-Driving Your Website Would you buy a car without driving it first? Probably not. Then why would you consider launching a library website without at least taking it out for a test-drive? |
D-Lib May/Jun 2015 Laurence Lannom |
Olio This issue has a set of seven articles, each highly relevant to the digital library field, each in its own way. |
D-Lib October 2007 Anna Gold |
Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 2: Libraries and the Data Challenge: Roles and Actions for Libraries Once libraries and librarians have forged new partnerships with scientists and data managers, then they will be truly integral to the stewardship of data as a vital part of the scholarly record. |
Information Today April 3, 2008 |
Outsell Issues Forecast Report on Libraries Libraries are successfully changing their models to stayabreast of the new information world paradigm. |
Information Today August 14, 2008 |
LibraryThing Offers One Million Free Book Covers LibraryThing, the social network book cataloging site, is now offering 1 million book covers free for libraries to enhance their online public accessing catalogs. |
D-Lib March 2003 Susan Gibbons |
Building Upon the MyLibrary Concept to Better Meet the Information Needs of College Students Librarians cannot afford to be complacent in the knowledge that college students consider it easier to find resources using the Internet than by using the library. |
Information Today May 28, 2002 Barbara Quint |
OCLC, Olive Software Ally to Digitize Library Newspaper Archives OCLC Digital and Preservation Resources has signed an agreement with Olive Software to supply libraries with the tools to digitize historical newspaper archives. |
D-Lib February 2000 Peter Hirtle |
Editorial: On eBooks, Open Archives, and Libraries |
D-Lib April 2006 Paul Miller |
Coming Together Around Library 2.0: A Focus for Discussion and a Call to Arms To achieve the vision of Library 2.0, in which libraries become ever more relevant as visible and accessible providers of valuable content and context, many of the models in evidence today will require dramatic change. |
D-Lib August 2006 Lavoie, Henry & Dempsey |
A Service Framework for Libraries As libraries continue to engage with an ever-shifting information landscape, it is apparent that their efforts would be facilitated by a shared view of how library services should be organized and surfaced in these new settings and contexts. |
Information Today September 17, 2015 |
Boopsie Reviews Its 2Q 2015 Accomplishments Boopsie for Libraries shared its most recent milestones: It has signed 12 new library clients in multiple library markets. |
Information Today June 10, 2010 |
Bowker Enhances Its Suite of Library Resources Enhancements include Books In Print, Syndetic Solutions, and Library Thing For Libraries products. The efforts are designed to enhance the bibliographic content found in library online catalogues. |
Information Today December 16, 2014 |
E-Rate Program Increases Broadband Budget The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved an E-rate program modernization order that will expand public libraries' broadband access. |
Information Today December 22, 2008 |
Pilot Grant Program to Improve Internet Connections in Public Libraries The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a pilot initiative designed to help public libraries in seven states secure faster internet connections so more people can access a full range of online applications and opportunities. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2000 |
Editorial Last month I attended two digital library meetings, the all-projects meeting of the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) Digital Libraries Initiative and a conference of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) -- in Europe, surprisingly enough.... |
Information Today February 27, 2012 Barbara Quint |
OCLC Innovation Lab Offers to Build Websites for Small Libraries The project began as a response to serious concerns posed by OCLC's Global Council as to the lack of web presence for small libraries. |
D-Lib August 2005 Clifford Lynch |
Where Do We Go From Here? The Next Decade for Digital Libraries The next decade for digital libraries may be characterized by the transition from technologies and prototypes to the ubiquitous, immersive, and pervasive deployment of digital library technologies and services in the broader information and information technology landscape. |
D-Lib August 2005 William Y. Arms |
A Viewpoint Analysis of the Digital Library Should digital libraries be encouraged to develop independently or together? |
Information Today May 3, 2010 Paula J. Hane |
Celebrating Libraries and Promoting Choose Privacy Week (May 2-8) Choose Privacy Week, which takes place May 2-8, 2010, is about bringing information privacy issues out into the open and discussing them - and libraries are the perfect places for those conversations to take place. |
D-Lib June 2004 Bonita Wilson |
A Few Observations after JCDL 2004 A few impressions from the premier annual U.S. conference focusing specifically on digital libraries. |
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 July 23, 2015 |
Innovative Publishes Report on Libraries and the Web Innovative released a survey report of 4,000-plus academic library users in the U.K. |
Information Today April 15, 2014 Barbie E. Keiser |
National Library Week 2014: Lives Change @ Your Library The United States has celebrated National Library Week during the second week of April (aka School Library Month) since 1958. This year, it's being celebrated April 13-19, with author Judy Blume serving as honorary chair. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 Laurence Lannom |
Editorial -- Traditional Roles Our eight articles as a whole primarily speak to the increased activity and importance of repositories in library evolution. |
D-Lib April 2000 Wendy P. Lougee |
Book Review: Digital Libraries This book by William Arms draws boundaries broadly and covers issues from the perspective of all the relevant stakeholders -- i.e., librarians, technologists, publishers, and users. |
D-Lib March 2006 Bonita Wilson |
A Special Issue on Digital Library Evolution Automated digital library can be used to describe a digital library where all tasks are carried out automatically. Computer programs substitute for the intellectually demanding tasks that are traditionally carried out by skilled professionals. |
D-Lib August 2005 Stephen M. Griffin |
Funding for Digital Libraries Research: Past and Present Digital libraries research and related activities are key in determining the future content, value, and use of global knowledge infrastructure. |
Information Today September 14, 2009 |
IMLS Grant Will Help Libraries Help the Unemployed Job seekers have packed libraries around the country during recent months, searching online job sites, building resumes, making use of a wide range of other employment services and resources. More help is on the way. |