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Salon – The author of a new book talks about the secret lives of America’s favorite — and endangered — disciplinarians “Marilyn Johnson, a former staff writer for Life magazine…delights in refuting our assumptions about librarians, while making a rock-solid case for their indispensability at a time when library systems are losing an average of …
Follow up to previous postings on Google Book Search, this annotated public interest resource: “The Public Index is a project of the Public-Interest Book Search Initiative and the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School. We are a group of professors, students, and volunteers who believe that the Google Book Search …
Chronicle of Higher Education: “This is a strong vehicle for academic freedom,” says Mr. Willinsky, whose Public Knowledge Project offers free journal-publishing software to academics. In a world where subscriptions to some medical journals can cost more than $10,000 a year, and many colleges in developing countries cannot afford more than a handful of scholarly …
LLRX.com – Effective Project Management: the Art of Creating Scope Statements – Carol A. Watson’s discussion of how well-defined scope statements are the key to successful project management continues with this article focused on how all written documentation should be clearly and concisely written, avoiding ambiguities at all costs.
LLRX.com: Preserving Born-Digital Legal Materials – Where to Start?: Sarah Rhodes discusses the monumental challenge of preserving our digital heritage. She argues that law libraries specifically have a critically important role to play in this undertaking as access to legal and law-related information is a core underpinning of our democratic society. Our current digital preservation …
Moving Targets: Web Preservation and Reference Management – Richard Davis discusses the role of Web preservation in reference management in an article based on a presentation given at the Innovations in Reference Management workshop January 2010. “Web Preservation is one field of endeavour which attempts to counter the Webs transient tendency, and a variety of …
Kay Ann Cassell and Kathleen Weibel – Telling the story of women’s work is never done: Writing Women Back into History is the theme for National Womens History Month, March 2010, the annual celebration of women in the United States. For years womens contributions were routinely underestimated or ignored even in the history of our …
Follow up to previous postings on Google Book Search, this news, Justice Department Submits Views on Amended Google Book Search Settlement – Department Says Despite Substantial Progress Made, Issues Remain “The Department of Justice [February 4, 2010] advised the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that despite the substantial progress reflected …
News release: “After more than a decade of nationwide effort, the Digital Promise Project has achieved an essential goal the creation of the National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies. This year the Department of Education, as provided by their 2010 appropriations legislation, will make available the initial funding required to …
Endangered Species – News librarians are a dying breed [Preface – I certainly hope not, having been one and respecting the profession immensely]: “According to data collected by Michelle Quigley, a researcher at the Palm Beach Post, over 250 news librarians (sometimes called news researchers) lost their jobs in the U.S. since 2007. Membership in …
News release: “This report was written as a companion report to “A Comparative Review of Research Assessment Regimes in Five Countries and the Role of Libraries in the Research Assessment Process,” a report commissioned by OCLC Research and produced by Key Perspectives Ltd, a UK library and scholarly publishing consultancy. Published in December 2009, the …
A Perfect Storm Brewing: Budget Cuts Threaten Library Services at Time of Increased Demand, January 2010. “Todays public libraries are vital community technology hubs that millions of Americans rely on for their first and often only choice for Internet access. Despite increased demand for library computers, however, libraries typically have not seen a corresponding increase …
