(12 August 2013, by spolanka) Ellyssa Kroski, Director of Information Technology at the New York Law Institute and the blogger for OEDb’s iLibrarian, has developed a list of 68 essential resources about eBooks in libraries. Organised into broad categories including eBooks and libraries, eBook purchasing and eBook collections, browse the resources here.
(12 August 2013) The British Library and the Center for Research Libraries have formed a partnership to digitize and make accessible historical news content from Africa, South Asia, and Latin America of interest to scholars at UK and North American universities. This partnership will dramatically expand and enrich the digitized collections in the World Newspaper…
(12 August 2013) With the launch of Lantern, the Media History Digital Library is now searchable. The MHDL’s searchable collections include many primary sources such as The Film Daily, Radio Digest, Talking Machine World and now, those portions of Variety in the public domain. Access Lantern here. In addition to searching Lantern, try the homepage’s…
A refreshed version of the most recent strategic plan, Vision 2015, is now available on the library website. The Strategic Alignment Plan addresses the major trends affecting libraries and all universities today: complex information environments, changes in learning, teaching, user behavior and expectations, shrinking budgets, and the heightened importance of collaboration among researchers and library…
Project Euclid is conducting research into how it can further Project Euclid’s mission to advance scholarly communication by addressing the unique needs of low-cost independent and society journals. The publisher is inviting librarians working in the math and statistics communities to share their opinions of Project Euclid in a 5 minute survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ProjectEuclid. The results…
Social media has fundamentally changed the contract between institutions and their public. Today, people expect a conversation, not a one-way diatribe. That, combined with the speed of the Internet, changes the game for many companies in anticipating, managing and ultimately avoiding an “instant crisis.” What’s an “instant crisis”? Think back to when Verizon added a…
(Emeryville, CA., 9 August 2013) The Lingnan University Library in Hong Kong upgraded to the Sierra Services Platform from the Millennium ILS this past month. The internationally recognized liberal arts university has been a customer of Innovative since 1993 and participates in the Hong Kong Academic Library Link (HKALL) that utilizes Innovative’s INN-Reach resource-sharing solution.…
(29 July 2103) The Indigenous Project Group has released community guidelines to assist library professionals in building relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities, reports National and State Libraries Australia. The Indigenous project group has released Working with Community: Guidelines for collaborative practice between Libraries and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities.…
The Guardian, 7 August 2013, Library Futures, has interviews with library chiefs worldwide on the challenges they face. Three of the 10 are in the Asia Pacific Region. Tama Art University Library, Japan, was designed by Toyo Ito, winner of the 2103 Pritzker Prize. Its director, Hidemi Kondo, says it inspires and challenges in equal…
ARL has released the 2011–2012 ARL Statistics dataset through ARL Statistics Analytics, a subscription-based service for nonmember libraries, vendors, commercial parties, and others interested in accessing the final, verified ARL Statistics data through an interactive interface. (ARL member institutions enjoy free access to the analytics as a benefit of membership.) ARL Statistics is a series…
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