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New: Library User Experience, SPEC Kit 322
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Funding, Libraries, Patrons and Users
|SPEC Kit 322 kit was just released by the Association of Research Libraries. The full text report is fee-based but and an executive summary and the table of contents is available at no charge. From ARL: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Library User Experience, SPEC Kit 322, which explores recent and planned user […]
Archived Webcast and a New Q&A Document: "New Roles for Research Libraries: Digital Curation for Preservation"
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Preservation, Video Recordings
|The webcast was recorded on April April 7, 2011 and made available om YouTube the following week. Panelists: Martha Anderson (LC/NDIIPP), Jeremy York (HathiTrust), Oya Rieger (Cornell), Trisha Cruse (California Digital Library) Along with the video, there is now a 4 pages PDF that provides answers to questions that were asked during the program but […]
Transcript: "Library Spaces for the Scholarship Process" and Skills For a Digital Librarian
Academic Libraries, Interviews, Libraries, News, Podcasts, Profiles
|Interview Transcript and Link to Complete Podcast. Gerry Baynes speaks with Gary Strong, University Librarian at UCLA. Here’s the opening exchange. From EDUCAUSE (46.4): Gerry Baynes: One of the elements planned for the space being redesigned at the UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library is a research commons for digital scholarship. Can you describe this […]
NYU Libraries, UIUC and UCSD Developing Next-Generation Archives Management System with Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|From NYU: New York University has been awarded a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to lead a partnership in developing the software that integrates Archon and the Archivists’ Toolkit (AT) into an open-source, next-generation archives management system. The integrated product—known by the working title ArchivesSpace—will incorporate the best features and functions of Archon […]
New Issue Alert: The Code4Lib Journal (14) is Now Available Online
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Preservation, Frontiers, Journal Articles, Libraries, Maps, New Issue, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|Released on July 25, 2011. Issue 14 contains 11 articles/books reviews/editorials. Here are abstracts and links. All articles are full text and free. Editorial Introduction: Prioritizing the Future, Collaborating in the Present, and Archiving the Past by Timothy M. McGeary This is an exciting time for libraries and technology, and libraries have the opportunity now […]
Preprint: "Citation Analysis as a Tool to Measure the Impact of Individual Research Consultations"
|by Thomas L. Reinsfelder Source: College & Research Libraries (29 pages; PDF) Note: This article was accepted on June 13, 2011 and Scheduled to Appear in the March, 2012 Issue Direct to Complete Article (29 pages; PDF): From the Intro: It is not unusual for librarians to interact with undergraduates during the beginning stages of […]
Q&A Interview With Harvard University Librarian, Dr. Robert Darnton, About National Digital Public Library
Academic Libraries, Interviews, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Public Libraries
|Here’s are three questions and answers from the complete interview that appears in the July 24, 2011 edition of the Boston Globe: IDEAS: So why not leave it to Google? DARNTON: It became clear, as Google’s project evolved, that it would be a commercial enterprise, and in fact an enterprise attached to a gigantic monopoly. […]
ARL Profiles: Research Libraries 2010 Final Report and Complete Analysis Now Available Online
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Profiles
|From ARL: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has captured the essence of the research library in contextual and innovative ways with the publication of ARL Profiles: Research Libraries 2010, a report that includes a thorough content analysis of narrative descriptions of research libraries at the end of the first decade of the 21st century. […]
A superb “not to technical intro” that is absolutely worthy or your time and also worth sharing. Direct to Full Text Column: “Linked Data: A Way Out of the Information Chaos and Toward the Semantic Web” by: Michael A. Keller Source: EDUCAUSE Review (42.4; July/August 2011) A new approach to reducing the chaos of the […]
New: "Journal Archiving for UK HE Libraries – a White Paper "
Academic Libraries, Journal Articles, Libraries, Open Access
|Author: Neil Beagrie Source: JISC Repository The aim of this white paper is to help universities and libraries implement policies and procedures in relation to e-journal archiving which can help support the move towards e-only provision of scholarly journals across the HE sector. Includes several case studies. Direct to Full Text (16 pages; MS Word) […]