December 23, 2008 – 5:00 pm
More Readers Picking Up Electronic Books From the New York Times:
Oprah says…
“For a decade, consumers mostly ignored electronic book devices, which were often hard to use and offered few popular items to read. But this year, in part because of [...]
December 18, 2008 – 10:36 am
The Daily Collegian reviewed the Five College Libraries last week. The review of Neilson begins on page 3 (and is mostly positive):
The building’s uninviting, low-ceilinged foyer makes for a harsh entrance to a place of intended hard work. Yet its sprawling design across three primary floors complements the library’s functionality; but be prepared to make [...]
December 10, 2008 – 2:16 pm
Library For Hire: Johns Hopkins U. Sells Services to an Online College
From the Chronicle of Higher Education:
“Excelsior College, a distance-learning institution based in Albany, N.Y., with 33,000 students scattered across the country, has outsourced its library services to the Johns Hopkins University, where a team of four employees is dedicated to maintaining Excelsior’s virtual library [...]
December 10, 2008 – 12:26 pm
Page through old magazines on Google Book Search
By Jacqui Cheng [Ars Technica]
Google’s book search is no longer limited to just books—now, users can turn up magazine results when hunting through the electronic versions of dead trees. The company announced Tuesday that it had begun an initiative to add magazine archives (in addition to current [...]
December 10, 2008 – 12:00 pm
After a spate of questions from users about how to get articles when we don’t have full-text for the needed year, it seemed time to deactivate a logic rule in SFX Admin that said: “Don’t show document delivery if available full text in any target.”
The bulk of our online journals aren’t available online for their [...]
December 9, 2008 – 1:37 pm
WCM has a new group working on revision of the libraries’ Research web page, and we invite staff to help.
If you happen upon any interesting or outstanding examples of library pages devoted to the research needs of students, please let us know!
As an example, here’s a link to the Information Center page from [...]
December 2, 2008 – 5:41 pm
“Debating the Vices and Virtues of Google”
This list of Google vices is from the “Bits” column of the New York Times posted Nov. 20. See the whole column for its purported virtues (and the multitude of comments this debate inspired)
“Siva Vaidhyanathan, an associate professor at the University of Virginia, argued that Google is in fact [...]
