MORE POSTS FROM SEPTEMBER 2014
National Library of Australia Invests in Digital Future
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|From CIO: The library is expanding its online and mobile services for Australian and international users. More than 70,000 people use its Trove service each day and 22 million users were clocked up last year. Dr Marie-Louise Ayres, the NLA’s assistant director-general for resource sharing, told CIO Australia the library’s digital assets now exceed 3 […]
ALA Releases Names of Council Candidates For 2015 Election
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|From the American Library Association: The American Library Association (ALA) announces the following individuals as candidates for positions on the ALA Council. These individuals were nominated by the Nominating Committee for the 2015 ALA Election: Joann Absi, Media Coordinator, Eugene Ashley High School, Wilmington, N.C. Hilary Albert, Librarian II, Mahopac Public Library, Mahopac, N.Y. Doug […]
JISC Shares Findings From Survey About Accessibility of Ebook Platforms
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|A recent blog post from JISC in the UK shared findings of a survey looking at, “accessibility issues with ebook platform providers” from the end-user perspective. The authors of the blog post do note that it took about nine months for the results of the survey to be tabulated and, “so some of the platform […]
From The Tech: The MIT administration said it is in the early stages of planning major renovations of campus libraries, including Hayden (humanities and sciences), Barker (engineering), and Rotch (architecture and planning). Organizers have not yet decided specific details of the project, and are encouraging input from the community. The multi-year, multi-million-dollar renovations will likely […]
From the AP (via The Boston Globe): The president of Norwich University has blocked access to an anonymous social media site because he says it was being used to make cyberattacks against some students at the Northfield school. Norwich University president Richard Schneider said he realized his decision to block access to the Yik Yak […]
Here’s a new issue brief (12 pages; PDF) by Roger Schonfeld at ITHAKA S+R. Schonfeld explores how the vision that the library should be the starting point for research—a vision many library directors hold—is often in conflict with the practices of faculty and students. As users migrate to other starting points, librarians could invest in […]
1. Take a Virtual Tour Inside Calgary’s New Central Library (via GlobalNews.ca) 2 Montana: Statewide Partnership Brings Ex Libris Primo to 14 Academic Libraries 3. Top 5 Facebook Scams in August and Beware of Fake Social Networking Apps 4. How social media is reshaping news (via Pew Institute) 5. Data Mining Facebook Check-Ins: The Most […]
From a Post on the CrossRef’s CrossTech Blog: Do you want to see if a CrossRef DOI (typically assigned to publications) refers to DataCite DOIs (typically assigned to data)? Here you go: http://api.labs.crossref.org/graph/doi/10.4319/lo.1997.42.1.0001 Conversely, do you want to see if a DataCite DOI refers to CrossRef DOIs? Voilà: http://api.labs.crossref.org/graph/doi/10.1594/pangaea.185321 [Clip] About five years ago, CrossRef […]
The latest issue of Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL)(Vol 33, No 3; 2014) was posted online earlier today by LITA (Library and Information Technology Association), a division of the American Library Association. Table of Contents President’s Message UX Thinking and the LITA Member Experience Rachel Vacek Articles Negotiating a Text Mining License for Faculty Researchers […]
The following research article appears in the latest issue of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP). Title Understanding Patterns of Library Use Among Undergraduate Students from Different Disciplines Authors Ellen Collins Research Information Network Graham Stone University of Huddersfield Source Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Vol 9, No 3 (2014) Abstract Objective – […]