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Questions of life and death – An investigation into the value of health library and information services in Australia. October 2012 “Health libraries across Australia, and indeed the world, are under pressure from funding cuts, and it is against this backdrop that Health Libraries Inc and the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) have collaborated …
A range of presentations from the conference, Transformational Power of Internet Librarians: Promise & Prospect have been posted by InfoToday. A sample of the program links follow: Über Analytics – Customizing Google Analytics to track multiple library platforms, M Ryan Hess, Web Services Coordinator, DePaul University Super Searcher Secrets, Mary Ellen Bates Competitive & Business …
Marc Parry: “Colleges share many things on Twitter, but one topic can be risky to broach: the reading habits of library patrons. Harvard librarians learned that lesson when they set up Twitter feeds broadcasting titles of books being checked out from campus libraries. It seemed harmless enougha typical tweet read, “Reconstructing American Law by Bruce …
Northeast Document Conservation Center: “Here are some helpful resources for salvage and recovery options, where to get help, and what to do next, including guidance on drying wet collections and dealing with damage from fire, pests, or mold.”
“The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) is pleased to announce publication of the report, The Current State of Open Access Repository Interoperability (2012). The report provides an overview of the current interoperability landscape in terms of the types of services that are now possible because of recent research and development efforts from throughout the …
News release: “The Harvard Library plans to share several collections with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) becoming the first DPLA content hub. The Harvard Library contains a wealth of special collections, and is dedicated to providing open access to them, where possible, through digitization and online dissemination. Through its collaboration with the DPLA, …
“The Registering Researchers Task Group aims to create a concise report that summarizes the benefits and trade-offs of emerging approaches to the problem of incomplete national authority files. Background: National name authority files are incomplete. Many researcherstenured and non-tenured faculty and graduate studentsare only partially represented in national name authority files. National name authority files …
Via LLRX.com – DPLA Grant: Possible Synergy Between Libraries, Schools and Newspapers – David H. Rothman, a leading national digital library advocate, continues his series on the evolving framework for the Digital Public Library of America. In this column, he discusses the impact of new program funding from the Knight Foundation. Rothman believes the potential …
Christina Ortiz: “After watching the U.S. Presidential debates, it’s clear the country could really use a non-combative way to discuss issues and disseminate information. Sites like Procon.org do this for national issues, ranging from legalizing marijuana to illegal immigration, but sometimes the most heated political discussions happen on the local scene. Instead of relying on …
“This paper is included on page 53 of the final report for the NSF Workshop, Curating for Quality: Ensuring Data Quality to Enable New Science, that took place 10-11 September 2012. The workshop was sponsored by the National Science Foundation and hosted by UNC School of Information & Library Science. Some takeaways from the Erway/Lavoie …
“The Law Library of Congress is pleased to announce a new homepage at http://loc.gov/law/. It is less text heavy, easier to scan, and includes a highlights carousel. Two of the most used products, Congress.gov and the Guide to Law Online, are prominently displayed. The @LawLibCongress Twitter stream is now on the homepage in the right …
Younger Americans Reading and Library Habits by Kathryn Zickuhr, Lee Rainie, Kristen Purcell, Mary Madden and Joanna Brenner “More than eight in ten Americans between the ages of 16 and 29 read a book in the past year, and six in ten used their local public library. At the youngest end of the spectrum, high …
