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“The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) announced [March 5, 2013] the appointment of Dan Cohen as the DPLAs founding Executive Director. Cohen, currently a tenured professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and the Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, brings to the …
OATs: Open Access Textbooks: “The OATs Libguide provides access to descriptions and links to known initiatives and organizations that support the development and promotion of Open Access textbooks, and to OA and low-cost e-books and textbook catalogs and databases.” [Gerry McKiernan]
Survey of Special Collections and Archives in the United Kingdom and Ireland, An OCLC Research Report “The top challenges for archives and special collections in the UK and Ireland are outreach, born-digital materials and space. Alignment of special collections with institutional missions and priorities is an ongoing challenge. The special collections sector is undergoing a …
Appraising our Digital Investment: Sustainability of Digitized Special Collections in ARL Libraries – A Report from Ithaka S+R and the Association of Research Libraries. Nancy L. Maron, Ithaka S+R, Sarah Pickle, Ithaka S+R. February 2013 “Special collections have long been a vital part of libraries, offering users access to rare or archival materials and creating …
BISG Policy Statement POL-1101. Best Practices for Identifying Digital Products. Revised Publication: February 25, 2013 “This BISG Policy Statement on recommendations for identifying digital products is applicable to content intended for distribution to the general public in North America but could be applied elsewhere as well. The objective of this policy statement is to clarify …
Libraries, e-Lending and the Future of Public Access to Digital Content, Prepared by Civic Agenda, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutes (IFLA) “Owing to the maturity of the e-book market in Europe and North America, this paper necessarily depends upon numerous examples which are drawn from those territories. In a document of this length …
PLOS ONE Research article – Subjective Impressions Do Not Mirror Online Reading Effort: Concurrent EEG-Eyetracking Evidence from the Reading of Books and Digital Media: Franziska Kretzschmar, Dominique Pleimling, Jana Hosemann, Stephan Füssel, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Matthias Schlesewsky. Published: February 6, 2013 “In the rapidly changing circumstances of our increasingly digital world, reading is also becoming an …
“Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Centers Internet & American Life Project, was joined by digital and library experts to discuss the findings of the Projects most recent report, Library Services in the Digital Age. The report is based on the findings of a nationally representative survey that asked Americans what types of services …
Survey of Special Collections and Archives in the United Kingdom and Ireland, An OCLC Research Report. “Special collections and archives play a key role in the future of research libraries. However, significant challenges face institutions that wish to capitalize on that value, to leverage and make fully available the rich content in special collections in …
Via First Monday – The new library of Babel? Borges, digitisation and the myth of the universal library by Christopher Rowe “The growing capacity of digital encoding and storage has opened up vast new avenues for the archiving and distribution of texts in virtual space, prompting many to declare the imminent obsolescence of print media, …
Via First Monday – Content analysis study of librarian blogs: Professional development and other uses by Grace M. Jackson-Brown “A content analysis study of leading librarian blogs shows how blogs are used for professional development, political advocacy for libraries, research and other information dissemination uses. An examination of blog posts, comments, and blogger responses to …
“The goal of this new MARC Usage in WorldCat activity is to provide an evidence base for testing assertions about the value of capturing various attributes by demonstrating whether the cataloging community has made the effort to populate specific tags, not just to define them in anticipation of use. OCLC Research seeks to use evidence …
