MORE POSTS FROM APRIL 2017
Research Article: “A Day in the Life Of Third-Year Medical Students: Using An Ethnographic Method to Understand Information Seeking and Use”
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|The following research article was published earlier this year in The Journal of the Medical Library Association. Title A Day In The Life Of Third-Year Medical Students: Using An Ethnographic Method To Understand Information Seeking And Use Authors Andrea B. Twiss-Brooks University of Chicago Ricardo Andrade Jr University of Chicago Michelle B. Bass University of […]
The Top 10 “Hot Articles” in Library and Information Science (April 2017)
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|Powered by bX Hot Articles from Ex Libris. Hot Articles is based on usage data from millions of researchers across journals, publishers and platforms. It helps the users to discover articles that other users found interesting – in general and for a specific topic. More Hot Articles Hot Articles for Other Disciplines
The following full text research article (open access) was published in the Journal of Academic Librarianship. Title Graphic Novels: Collecting, Cataloging and Outreach in an Academic Library Authors Aimee Slatera Brandeis University Ann Kardosb Brandeis University Source The Journal of Academic Librarianship Volume 43, Issue 2 (March 2017) doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2017.01.011 From the Introduction: Most major […]
From WFMZ: Library officials held a community conversation today with state, county, city and municipal officials to discuss the future of library funding–and while many of the officials believe libraries are great for Berks County…. “There’s so much going on at a public library that makes me say that the library funding is not a […]
1. Digital Textbooks Save Indiana University Students Millions (via AP) 2. Nearly 40% of U.S. Broadband Households Use Video Sharing Sites Like Youtube on a Weekly Basis (via Park Associates) 3. What Was Once Old is New Again; Modern Features Such as Bluetooth Help Drive U.S. Turntable Sales (via NPD)
The C-SPAN Video Library, a free resource, offers a keyword searchable version of the complete program held during today’s March For Science rally in Washington D.C., It was one of hundreds of rallies that took place around the world today. The video runs four hours and can be viewed from start to finish, scrubbed, and/or […]
From the Shanghai Daily/Xinhua The Palace Museum will digitalize its entire collection and make the images available to the public. The Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, had 1,862,690 antiques and relics in its collection as of the end of 2016. At present, only 400,000 have been photographed, Shan Jixiang, the museum director, […]
From Global News: The University of Victoria’s law library is turning the page on innovation by introducing a new item students can borrow: a dog. Echo, a four-and-a-half-year-old black lab, can now be checked out from the library for 30 minutes at a time to give students a stress-relieving break with man’s best friend. She even comes […]
From UC Berkeley Library: The C. V. Starr East Asian Library at UC Berkeley today announces its acquisition of the largest and most comprehensive Chinese film studies collection in North America. The over-70,000 periodicals, posters, photographs, and ephemera contained in the Paul Kendel Fonoroff collection document the development of the film and entertainment industry of […]
The following full text report are infographic are now available from the U.S. Census. Title The Changing Economics and Demographics of Young Adulthood From 1975 to 2016 Source U.S. Census April 2017 Highlights Most of today’s Americans believe that educational and economic accomplishments are extremely important milestones of adulthood. In contrast, marriage and parenthood rank […]