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Information Today
March 17, 2008
Barbie E. Keiser |
EPA Library Closures: Management Incompetence or Something More Sinister? The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found extensive problems with how EPA implemented the library closures and questions any cost savings as a result of these efforts to consolidate.   |
Information Today
February 21, 2006
Barbie E. Keiser |
Will Budget Constraints Sound a Death Knell for EPA Libraries? President Bush's American Competitive Initiative would cut $2 million that supports a network of 27 libraries. How will the work of the libraries' staffs change if these proposed budget cuts are approved? |
Information Today
June 27, 2011
Barbie E. Keiser |
EPA Releases Its National Library Network Strategic Plan FY2012-2014 This is a 3-year strategic plan which addresses four key areas -- EPA library network governance, services, collections (electronic and physical), and communications outreach and training. |
Information Today
October 2, 2008 |
EPA Reopens Regional and Headquarters Libraries The re-opening of regional libraries in Chicago, Dallas and Kansas City and the library at Headquarters will help the Agency better share information. |
Information Today
November 8, 2010
Barbie E. Keiser |
Some Progress But Not Enough: GAO Issues Update on the EPA Library Network When reading the GAO report released on Nov. 1, it's important to distinguish between indictments of the Agency and the work it was supposed to do from the progress that the library network has made. |
Searcher
March 2007
Mary Alice Baish |
Librarians as Change Agents: How You Can Help Influence Public Policy in the 110th Congress Key library issues for the 110th Congress. |
Searcher
April 2007
Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project. |
Chemistry World
May 28, 2008
Rebecca Trager |
Changes to US chemical review procedures flawed Recent changes to the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) main tool for assessing the health effects of chemicals could significantly lengthen the time needed to review them, a congressional watchdog has warned. |
Information Today
April 23, 2012
Miriam A. Drake |
Federal Depository Library Program: Legislative Issues The program is the subject of a report released by the Congressional Research Service: "Federal Depository Library Program: Issues for Congress" that includes a brief history of the program and a discussion on some key issues. |
Information Today
February 11, 2002
Rebecca Lenzini |
Washington's Governor Proposes Closing State Library to Save Money The governor's office in the state of Washington has proposed closing the Washington State Library by this October. This move is part of an effort to reduce overall state spending by more than $500 million to solve a $1.2 billion shortfall in Washington's biennial budget... |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2010
Xihui Zhen |
Overview of Digital Library Development in China The greatest challenges for Chinese national digital library projects are digital resource construction and a design of services provision. |
D-Lib
April 2007 |
In Brief From Partition to Direct Rule: 50 Years of Northern Ireland Parliamentary Debates Online... The Repository for the Laboratory Project... In the News... etc. |
Information Today
August 25, 2011
Barbie E. Keiser |
GPO Disapproves of Report on the Future of Federal Depository Libraries The report had too little input -- only 75 comments from a small community of depository librarians with no input from the ultimate users of government information. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2011 |
In Brief and In the News A new step toward digital library foundations... Scholarly reading and the value of library resources... Reposit: positing a new kind of repository deposit... |
Information Today
April 28, 2015
Barbie E. Keiser |
National Library Week 2015 Celebrates Unlimited Possibilities @ Your Library The American Library Association provides libraries with marketing collateral (e.g., posters, sample press releases, badges, and images for promotion on social media) and programming ideas. |
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. |
D-Lib
February 2007
Coyle & Hillmann |
Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century A rearrangement of the cataloging rules is not the right starting point for libraries. The library catalog has undergone considerable change from a simple finding list to an integrated database that serves both library management and user access functions. |
Information Today
December 27, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google's Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions Librarians, academicians, journalists, information industry pundits, and real people continue to ring in with comments, concerns, quarrels, and commendations for Google's new library program. Here are some answers, too. |
Search Engine Watch
November 22, 2005
Sullivan & Price |
World Digital Library Project Announced, Backed by Library of Congress & Google The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library, a project that's also received its first $3 million in funding from Google. |
D-Lib
June 2000
Diane Nester Kresh |
Offering High Quality Reference Service on the Web Today's researchers need to find quickly information that is usable, relevant, authoritative and verifiable. To meet that need, libraries must adapt our traditional strengths of acquiring, describing, and serving information to an environment that is not bound by time or physical place... |
| D-Lib |
In Brief and In the News Harnessing the Cognitive Surplus of the Nation by Crowdsourcing... Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance receives implementation funding from the Mellon Foundation... Content from European National and Research Libraries Now Available through New Portal for Researchers... |
Information Today
June 27, 2011
Barbara Quint |
The British Library Joins Google Books Google Books continues its march through the national libraries of Europe with the announcement of a deal with the British Library. |
Searcher
January 2008
Ashmore & Grogg |
The Race to the Shelf Continues Internet giants are in the middle of a modern-day space race: Who can scan the most and the best books in alliance with the biggest and brightest libraries in the U.S. |
Information Today
April 17, 2008 |
ALA Releases `The State of America's Libraries' Report Libraries of all kinds continue to be "engines of learning, literacy, and economic development in communities nationwide." |
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
August 2005
William Y. Arms |
A Viewpoint Analysis of the Digital Library Should digital libraries be encouraged to develop independently or together? |
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
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
April 14, 2011 |
ALA Releases 'The State of America's Libraries, 2011' The Great Recession may have come to an end, but hard-pressed Americans continue to turn to their local libraries for help in finding a job or launching their own business. This is one trend listed in the report. |
D-Lib
January 2002
Suzana Sukovic |
Beyond the scriptorium: The Role of the Library in Text Encoding Development of electronic textual resources means dealing with documents in new ways and on different levels, often involving work on a document's content through text encoding. This development challenges the library's assumed position in the research process... |
Information Today
August 14, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Google Book Search Adds Big, Brave Partner: The University of California The 100 libraries on the 10 campuses of the University of California - the largest research and academic library in the world - opened a composite 34 million book collection to Google. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2015 |
In Brief and In the News OCLC prints last library catalog cards... VRA Core RDF Ontology available for review... ALA awarded IMLS grant for IFLA 2016 Congress Fellowships... |
Chemistry World
April 8, 2008
Rebecca Trager |
US Lawmakers Subpoena EPA Over Global Warming A key US congressional committee has slapped the Environmental Protection Agency with a subpoena for documents pertaining to global warming. |
D-Lib
December 2007
Kaufman & Ubois |
Good Terms - Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization OCLC Programs and Research engaged Intelligent Television to study the partnership agreements between cultural institutions and for-profit companies for the mass digitization of books and other media. This report presents the findings of that study. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2009 |
In Brief Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award... High precision and recall: Focuss.Info as community-driven search engine... Shared Shelf: partnership plans to launch networked image management platform... etc. |
D-Lib
February 2008
Datema et al. |
In Brief Getting the most out of your institutional repository... Science assets of the digital age at risk... Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement: a documentary history... etc. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2011 |
In Brief SEALS: Semantic Evaluation at Large Scale... Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award 2012... New library study: demand up for technology, budget cuts limit access... |
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
November 28, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Library of Congress Launches Global "Rare Book" Digitization Project with Google Donation The Library of Congress' emerging "megalibrary" is getting a virtual "rare books" room thanks to Google. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2014 |
In Brief and In the News Higher education, library groups release Net Neutrality Principles... ALA applauds Congress for passing the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act... Finalists announced for the Digital Preservation Awards 2014... |
Searcher
December 2009
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Too Close for Comfort It's not just tough times that imperil traditional libraries. The economic crisis is speeding up the cascade of technological and societal tipping points, but those tipping points would happen regardless of the economy. |
Information Today
September 2, 2003 |
NewsBreaks Elsevier and ACS Agree to Link... ebrary Launches Library Center... ALA and Others Request Public Input on Homeland Security Procedures... |
D-Lib
May 2003
Marcum & Friedlander |
Keepers of the Crumbling Culture What digital preservation can learn from library history |
Information Today
September 26, 2011
Barbie E. Keiser |
End User Survey of Federal Depository Libraries The survey conducted by Outsell was designed to serve as a support for GPO's strategic planning effort as well as for libraries participating in the depository library program. |
Information Today
February 23, 2009 |
Library Associations Oppose Repealing Public Access Bill, Urge Action The library groups say that the bill would amend the U.S. Copyright Code, prohibiting federal agencies from requiring, as a condition of funding agreements, public access to the products of the research they fund. |
D-Lib
October 2000
James J. O'Donnell |
LC21 - Hopes and Cautions for the Library of Congress It is the Library of Congress's fate to be a symbol as well as a library... |
D-Lib
December 2004
Bonita Wilson |
The Growth of Digital Content The future of libraries and librarians has been discussed for years within the digital library community. Increasing amounts of digital content available anywhere and anytime makes that discussion more relevant than ever. |
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. |
Information Today
July 9, 2012
Paula J. Hane |
The Challenging Landscape of Ebooks in Libraries The overall growth in digital content of all kinds, and in particular, the growing importance and acceptance of ebooks, has clearly presented great opportunities for libraries, as well as plenty of challenges. |
Information Today
June 9, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Readex to Create Digital Edition of U.S. Congressional Serial Set Early Americana aficionados and government documents librarians will especially have cause to celebrate the forthcoming release on the Web of a key historical government resource. |
