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Information Today October 6, 2011 |
Gale Launches Librareo--Free Web-Based Community for LIS Students Librareo is a free web-based community that supports the future of libraries and librarianship by providing students enrolled in Library and Information Studies programs with free access to the professional resources they'll rely upon following graduation. |
Information Today April 29, 2013 Barbie E. Keiser |
Survey on U.S. Faculty Use of Scholarly Resources -- and the Academic Library The results provide "libraries, learned societies, and academic publishers with insight into the evolving attitudes and practices of faculty members in the context of substantial environmental change for higher education." |
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 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 March 5, 2015 |
New Report Shows Librarians' Attitudes Toward Access Management Services Librarians generally respond positively to challenges in access management, but many feel that their organizations are behind the curve when it comes to current access management services. |
Information Today September 29, 2011 |
Gale Introduces Gale Business Insights: Global The resource is designed for undergraduate and graduate business school students, as well as academic faculty, librarians, and professional researchers. |
Information Today April 4, 2013 |
New ACRL White Paper: 'Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy' This white paper explores and articulates three intersections among scholarly communication and information literacy. |
T.H.E. Journal March 25, 2010 Natasha Wanchek |
Library 2.0: Enter the Teacher Librarian Enthusiast Technology is changing the role of libraries - and the responsibilities of librarians - at schools internationally. |
Information Today February 23, 2012 |
Social Media Data Available for ebrary Student E-book Survey ebrary, a ProQuest business, announced that the social media data of its 2011 Global Student E-book Survey is now publicly available online along with the full report. |
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 January 6, 2011 |
ARL Announces 'Lib-Value' Website A searchable bibliographic database of library value and ROI literature is now freely available. |
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. |
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. |
D-Lib October 2003 Marcum & George |
Who Uses What? Report on a national survey of information users in colleges and universities |
Information Today March 26, 2015 |
Gale Gives Students Easier Access to Primary Sources; Starts Arabic Digitization Project Gale will integrate Gale Artemis: Primary Sources into Cengage Learning's MindTap elearning platform, which will bring library content directly into students' learning paths. |
Searcher March 2005 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - "Real-World" Products and Academic Decisions Any online research tool that has no off-campus existence must be suspect, definitely if the librarians can find competitively priced resources that come close to the same quality. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2015 Mary Wu |
The Future of Institutional Repositories at Small Academic Institutions: Analysis and Insights While all institutional repositories have experienced the same obstacles relating to a lack of faculty participation, those at small universities face unique challenges. |
D-Lib October 2005 Yvonne Hultman Ozek |
Lund Virtual Medical Journal Makes Self-Archiving Attractive and Easy for Authors The importance of communication and collaboration with units outside the library to make self-archiving attractive to authors. |
Information Today February 4, 2014 |
LibLime Academic Koha Update Launches This version of LibLime's open source ILS software for academic libraries has an updated discovery layer that increases local customization. |
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. |
Searcher March 2011 Matarazzo & Pearlstein |
Survival Lessons for Libraries: Educating Special Librarians -- "The Past Is Prologue" When we began writing this series of articles addressing survival lessons for special libraries, we had more questions than answers; this is still the case. |
Information Today June 28, 2010 |
ACRL Releases Report on Libraries and Higher Education in 2025 The report presents 26 possible scenarios for the future which may have an impact on all types of academic libraries over the next 15 years. |
Information Today October 30, 2014 |
PCG Survey Reveals That Libraries Provide OA Funds Almost 25% of respondents noted that libraries offer funding for article processing charges), some of which comes from existing materials budgets. |
Information Today June 17, 2010 |
ABC-CLIO eBooks Available Through Gale Virtual Reference Library "By adding these titles to Gale Virtual Reference Library, we are expanding our reach and are providing librarians, students, and researchers with greater access to our ebooks," says Tom Fitzgerald, ABC-CLIO's vice president of sales. |
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 September 2, 2014 |
Libraries Unlimited and IASL Team Up for Book Series Libraries Unlimited, part of ABC-CLIO, LLC, partnered with the International Association of School Librarianship to launch a book series that will contribute to the development of global school librarianship. |
Information Today July 15, 2010 Dan Tonkery |
Cengage Learning Announces Streamlined Operating Structure So what do librarians think about this move? |
Information Today March 3, 2015 Brandi Scardilli |
University Libraries Offer an Alternative to Traditional Publishing As digital tools get easier to use, many institutions are starting their own publishing programs in an effort to offer more varied services to their communities. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2013 Forrest Wright |
What do Librarians Need to Know About MOOCs? The emergence of MOOCs represents a rising trend of removing the learning process from the physical campus, but to an exaggerated degree. This is not necessarily a negative trend; however it does have huge implications for university libraries. |
Information Today January 14, 2010 Paula J. Hane |
Fast Data Sharing With ebrary's DASH! The Academic Complete digital content collection from ebrary has proven to be a valued resource in many academic settings. |
Information Today October 31, 2013 |
LPC Debuts Library Publishing Directory The Library Publishing Coalition published the first edition of its Library Publishing Directory, which provides an overview of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries. |
Information Today August 30, 2010 |
ebrary Offers CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles Published annually, the CHOICE OAT list represents the top 10% of more than 7,000 academic books, electronic media, and internet resources reviewed by CHOICE that year. |
Searcher February 2012 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Leverage I was talking with a colleague recently about what fixes we information professionals should be pressing the information industry to provide these days. He kept talking about finding the pressure points, and I kept mentioning leverage. |
Information Today March 7, 2013 Nancy K. Herther |
Library Publishing Coalition -- A Milestone in Evolution of Scholarly Publishing For the past year, representatives of some of the most influential university libraries in the country have been meeting and exploring the potential for library/press partnerships for scholarly publishing in the future. |
Information Today October 27, 2011 Barbara Quint |
Credo Reference Tests literati to Enhance Library Information Literacy The company has begun beta testing a new service called literati by Credo that will improve the use of its own and non-Credo sources, educate users, and enhance the role as well as the image of librarians. B |
Information Today June 18, 2012 |
Credo Reference Launches Literati Public Literati Public, developed in close partnership with public librarians, is a highly customizable solution that promotes the mission of public libraries by combining Credo's content with newly developed platform technology. |
BusinessWeek November 27, 2006 Richard Schmalensee |
Where's The "B" In B-Schools? Many business schools are seeking to make research and teaching more valuable to practicing managers. This is easier said than done. |
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. |
Information Today April 9, 2007 |
Thomson Gale Introduces Demographic Tool for Libraries Thomson Gale has introduced a new online resource called DemographicsNow Library Edition that is designed to offer public and academic libraries an affordable geographic business-intelligence solution. |
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? |
Information Today May 14, 2015 |
Gale Helps Middle School Students With Information Literacy Gale launched Research In Context, an online, multimedia (images, audio, video, and primary sources, etc.) research tool for middle school students. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2011 Michalis Gerolimos |
Academic Libraries on Facebook: An Analysis of Users' Comments This paper examines users' comments on the Facebook pages of 20 American academic libraries and subdivides them into 22 categories. |
Searcher September 2002 Marylaine Block |
Doing it Right How some universities encourage the creation of prime research web sites |
D-Lib December 2000 Carol Ann Hughes |
Information Services for Higher Education: A New Competitive Space For at least the last ten years of my professional life in academic libraries we have seen higher education recognize itself as an important economic sector for our country's continued prosperity, and we have heard repeatedly that the new economy is based on knowledge... |
T.H.E. Journal December 2005 Chris Balsano |
School Libraries Go Interactive An Illinois high school library uses online forms to stay in contact with the needs and requests of students and teachers. |
D-Lib January 2000 David M. Levy |
Digital Libraries and the Problem of Purpose Which way ought we to go in digital library research and development?...I'll start by reviewing the problem of purpose in American public libraries and American academic/research libraries before turning to digital libraries... |
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... |
Information Today April 22, 2014 |
Alexander Street Press Introduces Database of Business Ebooks The new database makes 500 business etextbooks and reference materials available without digital rights restrictions to worldwide academic, public, and school libraries. |
Searcher January 2004 Barbara Quint |
Encyclopedia of the Future: "The Library" By the early years of the 21st century, the forces of technology began to press the information professional community to re-examine the basic infrastructure of service to clients and to consider centralizing national and international library resources... |
D-Lib May 2005 |
Influencing User Behavior through Digital Library Design: An Example from the Geosciences A look at how the portal of a digital library can be designed to influence the behavior of its users. |