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Why I’d Still Choose Paper Books Over Digital Books, by Nancy Perkins, October 16, 2012. “I love used books because you never know what youll find inside. Aside from a well-crafted tale (and the rare author/illustrator signature), you can discover another persons thoughts and bookmarks. It is a journey into another mind. I shy away …
The New Librarian Librarians expertly engage in the following discipline, programs and projects: Intranet content development; Creation of expertise databases; Database development and maintenance; Taxonomy development and enterprise implementation; Legal project management; Search engine optimization (SEO); Business Intelligence and Competitive Intelligence; Planning, launching and maintaining Social Media applications; Portal knowledge services; ROI (for research, knowledge, …
MiPAL: Cybersecurity – Compiled by the National Defense University Library [MERLN – the Military Education Research Library Network – is a comprehensive website devoted to international military education outreach. It represents a consortium of military education research libraries that work together to provide access to a variety of unique electronic resources for the use of …
DRAFT – Digital Literacy, Libraries, and Public Policy: Report of the American Library Association Digital Literacy Task Force, September 8, 2012 “This report of the Task Force provides a broad overview of libraries and digital literacy. It discusses the current policy context, including digital inclusion, education, life-long learning, and workforce development. The report outlines library-specific …
Identifying Threats to Successful Digital Preservation: the SPOT Model for Risk Assessment, Sally Vermaaten, Brian Lavoie and Priscilla Caplan. D-Lib Magazine, September/October 2012. Volume 18, Number 9/10 “Developing a successful digital preservation strategy amounts to accounting for, and mitigating, the impact of various threats to the accessibility and usability of digital materials over time. Typologies …
the Chronicle of Higher Education – Jennifer Howard: “Academic libraries indexing of digitized works counts as fair use. So says the federal judge overseeing a major copyright-infringement lawsuit brought last year by the Authors Guild against the HathiTrust digital repository and its university partners. At stake was the uses the libraries could make of millions …
Alisha Azevedo: “Spending by research libraries appears to be rising, especially for digital materials, according to new data from the Association of Research Libraries. The data are part of the association’s Library Investment Index, which ranks the association’s member libraries each year based on total library expenditures, salaries and wages of professional staff, spending on …
“When used appropriately, educational technology is a tool to assist with implementation of the Common Core Standards, help raise graduation rates, and prepare students for life beyond K-12 education. Technology employed in isolation, without direct instruction, or highly qualified guidance, fails to address these concerns. It is the intent of this AASL [American Association of …
ALA Library Fact Sheet Number 22 – “This fact sheet lists the top 100 largest libraries in the United States by volumes held. See below for definitions of “volume” for both public libraries and academic (college and university) libraries.”
News releases: The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google today announced a settlement agreement that will provide access to publishers in-copyright books and journals digitized by Google for its Google Library Project. The dismissal of the lawsuit will end seven years of litigation. The agreement settles a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against Google on …
Periodical Price Survey: “A valuable guide for budgeting decisions, the Periodical Price Survey is published each spring in Library Journal. Authored by Stephen Bosch, the materials budget, procurement, and licensing librarian, University of Arizona Library, Tucson and Kittie Henderson, director of EBSCO’s Academic and Law Divisions, EBSCO Information Services, the report provides a detailed look …
News release: “The use of 21st century technology to bring significant savings in textbook costs for California college students will be made possible under two measures the Governor signed into law today. The companion bills by Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg, SB 1052 and SB 1053, will establish development of open source digital textbooks …
