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“We write to communicate an untenable situation facing the Harvard Library. Many large journal publishers have made the scholarly communication environment fiscally unsustainable and academically restrictive. This situation is exacerbated by efforts of certain publishers (called providers) to acquire, bundle, and increase the pricing on journals. Harvards annual cost for journals from these providers now …
Public libraries in the digital age by Mary Madden, Kathryn Zickuhr, Apr 25, 2012 at Chief Officers of State Library Agencies: “They presented findings on the rise of e-reading, including reading-device ownership and the general reading habits/preferences of Americans. Their presentation included libraries research fact sheets: Fact sheet: The Rise of E-Reading Fact sheet on …
News release: “The Harvard Library announced it is making more than 12 million catalog records from Harvards 73 libraries publicly available. The records contain bibliographic information about books, videos, audio recordings, images, manuscripts, maps, and more. The Harvard Library is making these records available in accordance with its Open Metadata Policy and under a Creative …
Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives and Museums, Part 3: Recommendations and Readings, Karen Smith-Yoshimura OCLC Research and Rose Holley National Library of Australia “Social media tools are needed to generate user-contributed content, which includes social metadata information from users that helps people find, understand, or evaluate a sites content. Social media and social metadata overlap; …
“The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into …
Federal Depository Library Program: Issues for Congress – R. Eric Petersen, Specialist in American National Government; Jennifer E. Manning, Information Research Specialist; Christina M. Bailey, Information Research Specialist, March 29, 2012 “Congress established the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) to provide free public access to federal government information. The programs origins date to 1813; the …
The Law Library of Congress, Translation of National Legislation into English, March 2012 – Global Legal Research Center Afghanistan, Argentina, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, and Russia International Organizations International Courts
State of America’s Libraries Report 2012: “As the national economy continues to struggle toward recovery from the Great Recession, 2011 was a year of grim headlines. The federal Library of Congress lost about 9% of its budget and 10% of its workforce. Detroit, a city in fiscal crisis, agonized all year over how many library …
You belong @ your library as libraries transform lives through technological literacy: “Libraries are transforming lives by providing patrons the tools needed to compete and thrive in a 21st century market place. Libraries continue to provide traditional resources and services, but now patrons will find book shelves neighboring computer labs and wireless environments. Libraries are …
Via Stephane Cottin, Membre du conseil d’administration at ADIJ Association pour le developpement de l’informatique juridique – France – news on the availability of new databases that provide multiple language access to the French official legal portal Legifrance.gouv.fr – Translations of French legal texts Italian Arabic German Spanish Chinese A list of French legal texts …
The rise of e-reading, by Lee Rainie, Kathryn Zickuhr, Kristen Purcell, Mary Madden and Joanna Brenner “One-fifth of American adults (21%) report that they have read an e-book in the past year, and this number increased following a gift-giving season that saw a spike in the ownership of both tablet computers and e-book reading devices …
Restoring Contemplation: How Disconnecting Bolsters the Knowledge Economy, by Jessie L. Mannisto “While constant access to information enabled by digital devices has done much to improve our lives, it also exacts costs with respect to our attention and productivity that are especially harmful in a knowledge based economy. Increased public awareness of the impact of …
