November 13, 2009 – 4:52 pm
Sherrill noted in this week’s A&R a link to the College’s Facebook page with a story about favorite student jobs, many of them in the Libraries. And Sherrill had posted this shoutout to a former student worker: “Hey, Noella! Thanks for that vote of confidence. We remember you fondly, too. Go to the Sophia Smith [...]
November 10, 2009 – 3:20 pm
From Inside Higher Ed…something from Educause last week.
“Let’s face it: the library, as a place, is dead,” said Suzanne E. Thorin, dean of libraries at Syracuse University. “Kaput. Finito. And we need to move on to a new concept of what the academic library is.”
I think Thorin is just trying to be provocative, myself. But [...]
November 2, 2009 – 11:02 am
Illicit file sharing isn’t just for kids these days. Once mainly used for downloading pirated music, sites have sprung up on the Internet that allow free swapping of academic journals
See The Latest File-Sharing Piracy: Academic Journals
October 30, 2009 – 10:48 am
Wikipedia says:
“Mischief night or mischievous night is a tradition in Canada and the United States; a night when the custom is for preteens and teenagers to take a degree of license to play pranks and do mischief to their neighbors. The most common date for mischief night is October 30, the day before Halloween.”
Other names:
Cabbage [...]
October 29, 2009 – 5:29 pm
From the Chronicle’s Wired Campus:
“By opening the largest online rental service for scientific, technical, and research journals, the company Deep Dyve is hoping to do for academic publications what Netflix has done for movies: make them easily accessible and inexpensive for everyone.” http://chronicle.com/blogPost/The-Netflix-of-Academic/8648/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
October 9, 2009 – 11:12 am
The 2009 Horizon Report lists “Geo-Everything” among recent trends in the category “Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years.”
In a recent brainstorming session based on some of the Horizons technology trends, the Digital Services Team considered how the libraries might provide geolocation services using mashups, web pages, or software, for instance GPS directions/location or [...]
October 9, 2009 – 10:52 am
Sergey Brin puts his spin on GoogleBooks in an op-ed in today’s New York Times:
“But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole. With rare exceptions, one can buy them only [...]
October 9, 2009 – 9:38 am
List is here from the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies
This list has been compiled from the Top 10 Tool Contributions of 202 Learning Professionals.
October 1, 2009 – 5:06 pm
Catalogs are the problem!
Librarians are the problem!
Students are the problem!
A Chronicle article on trends in library catalog software has touched off an online reader debate about who’s to blame for patrons’ search frustrations and how to fix the situation.
Here’s the second Chronicle article with the debate…
October 1, 2009 – 11:39 am
Of all the current assaults on our noble republic, perhaps none is more dangerous than the public option – specifically, the public library option.
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