From ALA’s TechSource : "If you’re in any phase of evaluating your current systems or alternatives, check out [Marshall Breeding's] nifty chart Integrated Library System turnover in 2011 on the Library Technology Guides site. Drawing from data contributed by libraries…
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From the OCLC press release : CIPE Italian University Consortium to add 11 million records to WorldCat DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 20 March 2012—OCLC and the CIPE consortium, which comprises 11 university libraries in northern and central Italy, have signed an…
From Friends: Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services : March 23, 2011 at 2:00 pm ET – free to all. Guests: Our "Keeping Up" panel – Charles Ansorge, Steven Bell, Ilene Frank, Lisa Star, Jane Harris, Beth Dailey, Jane…
From Friends: Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services : March 23, 2011 at 2:00 pm ET – free to all. Guests: Our "Keeping Up" panel – Charles Ansorge, Steven Bell, Ilene Frank, Lisa Star, Jane Harris, Beth Dailey, Jane…
From the ACRL Insider blog : "…College Libraries Section (CLS) is pleased to announce the launch of CLIPP: College Library Information on Policy and Practice, a reconceptualization of ACRL’s CLIPNotes publication series. … this next generation monographic series will provide…
From the ACRL Insider blog : "…College Libraries Section (CLS) is pleased to announce the launch of CLIPP: College Library Information on Policy and Practice, a reconceptualization of ACRL’s CLIPNotes publication series. … this next generation monographic series will provide…
From INFOdocket : "From a BML Bowker Announcement: While the majority of the U.K.’s undergraduate students are now using e-books, none are yet relying on them as a primary source of information. Print continues its hold as a key resource…
From INFOdocket : A new report from the JISC. … From a News Release/Summary: A new JISC report shows that text mining … has huge potential benefits for the UK economy and knowledge base, but its use is being held…
From INFOdocket : A new report from the JISC. … From a News Release/Summary: A new JISC report shows that text mining … has huge potential benefits for the UK economy and knowledge base, but its use is being held…
3d(? I’m loosing count) part of the Ithaka report. The section that really caught my eye was the part about libraries and librarians : "Expertise and skill building “[We are] willing to contemplate a variety of futures for the library.”…
From the announcement : "Launched today, the new British Library Sounds website at http://sounds.bl.uk lets you listen for free to 50,000 tracks of music, spoken words and environmental sounds. Listeners at licensed UK universities and colleges may additionally download tracks…
From the announcement : "Launched today, the new British Library Sounds website at http://sounds.bl.uk lets you listen for free to 50,000 tracks of music, spoken words and environmental sounds. Listeners at licensed UK universities and colleges may additionally download tracks…
Historians are certainly being studied recently (see the 2 previous posts re the Ithaka report). The latest, from INFOdocket : "Academic Networking 2.0: Historians and Social Media by Michael D. Hattem, PhD Student, Yale University … From the Article For…
This could be exciting! From INFOdocket : From LIBER: A group of 17 European partner institutions have joined forces in the “European Newspapers” project and will, over the next 3 years, provide more than 10 million newspaper pages to the…
Thanks to the Collections = Collections blog for alerting me to the free ALCTS Transforming Collections forum. The basics : February 22-23, 2012 9am-5pm CST "Join us to talk about all the ways our collections are changing and discuss topics…
