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Searcher
June 2010 |
The Care and Feeding of Vendors How can we info pros working for clients, especially those of us working in libraries with still influential budgets, push, prod, coax, urge, nudge, nag, coerce, lure, whatever, our vendor partners toward the light?   |
Searcher
April 2012
Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
Searcher
January 2004
Barbara Quint |
Encyclopedia of the Future: "The Library" By the early years of the 21st century, the forces of technology began to press the information professional community to re-examine the basic infrastructure of service to clients and to consider centralizing national and international library resources... |
D-Lib
December 2004
Bonita Wilson |
The Growth of Digital Content The future of libraries and librarians has been discussed for years within the digital library community. Increasing amounts of digital content available anywhere and anytime makes that discussion more relevant than ever. |
Searcher
April 2006
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - What's Happening?!? Librarians need to make sure that everyone knows, wherever they live or work, that if you need to know anything, anything at all, you start with your librarian. |
Searcher
June 2006
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Cassandra Grumbles A library is what is left over when a librarian goes home. |
Searcher
March 2007
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - To the Ozone and Beyond In the course of research for an article on the experiences of the libraries involved in Google Book Search, a story emerged. |
D-Lib
October 2007
Anna Gold |
Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 2: Libraries and the Data Challenge: Roles and Actions for Libraries Once libraries and librarians have forged new partnerships with scientists and data managers, then they will be truly integral to the stewardship of data as a vital part of the scholarly record. |
Information Today
June 10, 2002
Barbara Quint |
QuestionPoint Marks New Era in Virtual Reference QuestionPoint stems from an arrangement between the Library of Congress' Public Service Collections Directorate and OCLC to provide libraries with access to a growing collaborative network of reference librarians in the U.S. and around the world. |
Information Today
April 25, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Simon & Schuster Joins `Big 6' in Moving Ebooks Into Libraries On April 15, 2013, Simon & Schuster became the last of the "Big Six" (now actually five with the merger of Random House and Penguin) publishers to dip their toes into the waters of ebook sales to libraries. |
Information Today
April 28, 2015
Barbie E. Keiser |
National Library Week 2015 Celebrates Unlimited Possibilities @ Your Library The American Library Association provides libraries with marketing collateral (e.g., posters, sample press releases, badges, and images for promotion on social media) and programming ideas. |
Information Today
July 7, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Ebook Developments Were HOT at ALA At the recent American Library Association Annual conference, it's clear that librarians are focused on embracing the expanding digital world and specifically on providing ebooks as part of library services. |
Information Today
April 15, 2014
Barbie E. Keiser |
National Library Week 2014: Lives Change @ Your Library The United States has celebrated National Library Week during the second week of April (aka School Library Month) since 1958. This year, it's being celebrated April 13-19, with author Judy Blume serving as honorary chair. |
D-Lib
August 2005
Clifford Lynch |
Where Do We Go From Here? The Next Decade for Digital Libraries The next decade for digital libraries may be characterized by the transition from technologies and prototypes to the ubiquitous, immersive, and pervasive deployment of digital library technologies and services in the broader information and information technology landscape. |
D-Lib
July 2001
Lucia Snowhill |
E-books and Their Future in Academic Libraries: An Overview This article briefly summarizes task force findings, and outlines issues and recommendations for making e-books viable over the long term in the academic environment, based on the long-term goals of building strong research collections and providing high level services to its users... |
Information Today
August 7, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Amazon Library Processing Prepares Books for Library Shelves Now libraries can order books and other media, such as CDs and DVDs, from Amazon and receive the material ready to go from box to shelf. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2011
Gerolimos & Konsta |
Services for Academic Libraries in the New Era The aim of this paper is twofold. The primary focus is to research and document the integration of services based on the web into the framework of academic libraries. |
Information Today
May 16, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free The Google Scholar project has responded to the complaints of many academic and research librarians by expanding its usefulness for campus-based users. Any library using OpenURLs and meeting Google Scholar's conditions can join the program. |
Searcher
August 2007
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - A Great Idea!! The Google Custom Search Engine lets knowledgeable users identify the sites and/or search strategies that they know will retrieve high relevance, high quality content matching the interests of their user communities. |
Searcher
December 2011
Barbara Quint |
The Second Story It's not just budgets that are in danger, it's the historical record itself. Most licenses carry clauses that allow the publisher to change and alter individual items at will. Electronic content "in" libraries these days usually doesn't exist "in" the library at all. |
Searcher
December 2011
Charles Hamaker |
FEATURE: Ebooks on Fire: Controversies Surrounding Ebooks in Libraries While it might not matter to the occasional or recreational reader, the ebook presents a host of challenges for the role of the book as transmitter, carrier, and shaper of our written word cultural heritage. |
D-Lib
June 2008 |
A New Website Devoted to Envisioning the Future of Libraries In an information world in which Google apparently offers us everything, what place is there for the traditional, and even the digital, library? |
Searcher
December 2004
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Only Libraries, Only Librarians If Congress were to wave its magic wand and mandate open access across the federal research effort, it could accelerate the open access movement overnight. But are we ready? |
Searcher
February 2007
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Good Ideas Donating books to libraries... The future of libraries... |
Searcher
March 2011
Matarazzo & Pearlstein |
Survival Lessons for Libraries: Educating Special Librarians -- "The Past Is Prologue" When we began writing this series of articles addressing survival lessons for special libraries, we had more questions than answers; this is still the case. |
D-Lib
May 2003
Marcum & Friedlander |
Keepers of the Crumbling Culture What digital preservation can learn from library history |
D-Lib
October 2000
John V. Lombardi |
Academic Libraries in a Digital Age Students increasingly see the library as mostly irrelevant, while faculty and librarians of a certain age cling to the security of an authoritative collection and familiar classification systems... |
D-Lib
April 2006
Paul Miller |
Coming Together Around Library 2.0: A Focus for Discussion and a Call to Arms To achieve the vision of Library 2.0, in which libraries become ever more relevant as visible and accessible providers of valuable content and context, many of the models in evidence today will require dramatic change. |
Searcher
August 2006
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Fear of Success There is terror that haunts the careers of so many librarians, the notion that some promotional effort, some marketing strategy designed to prove the library's worth will actually succeed and end up putting unendurable pressure on finite library resources. |
Information Today
March 7, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Library Publishing Coalition -- A Milestone in Evolution of Scholarly Publishing For the past year, representatives of some of the most influential university libraries in the country have been meeting and exploring the potential for library/press partnerships for scholarly publishing in the future. |
Searcher
April 2004
Barbara Quint |
Governance The concept of universal service to all has been the impossible dream of librarians. Now technology has brought us the opportunity to make that dream a reality. But our governance reins us in, holds us back, keeps us from reaching up and out to that grand goal. |
Searcher
January 2009
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - What's Next? Has the world of one giant and universal LIBRARY finally arrived? Stay tuned. This is an issue we have covered regularly and will continue to cover this year and beyond, I suspect. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2011
Michalis Gerolimos |
Academic Libraries on Facebook: An Analysis of Users' Comments This paper examines users' comments on the Facebook pages of 20 American academic libraries and subdivides them into 22 categories. |
D-Lib
December 2000
Carol Ann Hughes |
Information Services for Higher Education: A New Competitive Space For at least the last ten years of my professional life in academic libraries we have seen higher education recognize itself as an important economic sector for our country's continued prosperity, and we have heard repeatedly that the new economy is based on knowledge... |
Searcher
September 2008
Stephen Abram |
Evolution to Revolution to Chaos? Reference in Transition Those of us who prepare for an emerging new world balance of personal service -- virtual, in-person, and computer-mediated -- will be better prepared than those who wait and see. It's a new Renaissance in libraries. |
Information Today
May 17, 2012 |
IFLA Releases Background Paper on E-Lending As part of its work on the 2011-2012 Key Initiatives, the International Federation of Library Associations Governing Board appointed a working group to draft a background paper on digital lending. |
Searcher
October 2003
Marylaine Block |
How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet The unrestrained freedom of the Net has caused conservative organizations and staid, sober lawmakers to view libraries as pornography parlors and librarians as corrupters of youth. As a result, librarians have borne the brunt of an astonishing amount of ill-advised and unconstitutional legislation. |
Searcher
February 2005
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Round Up the Unusual Suspects! How could Google's plans to offer digitized book content of brick-and-mortar libraries affect the library world? |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2011
Marydee Ojala |
Strength in Numbers Libraries worldwide are under threat. Yet information professionals should not despair. We bring a unique perspective to these dual challenges, and we have strength in numbers. |
Information Today
February 3, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
Five Librarian Bloggers to Follow If you already know about these passionate authorial librarians, read on for some insight into why they started their blogs and what advice they'd give to those thinking about blogging. |
Searcher
May 2008
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Redundancy A basic goal of information professionals is the guaranteeing that all information in existence stays in existence, the command to archive. However, something is slipping and sliding away: redundancy. |
Searcher
February 2004
Barbara Quint |
The Great Divide A combination of forces is putting pressure on the information profession. Oddly enough, one of the pressure points is librarians themselves. |
D-Lib
September 2006
Choi & Rasmussen |
What Is Needed to Educate Future Digital Librarians: A Study of Current Practice and Staffing Patterns in Academic and Research Libraries Digital libraries are the future of academic and research institutions, and digital professionals will be required to have more breadth and depth of knowledge and skills across the dimensions of traditional library knowledge, technology, and human relations. |
D-Lib
June 2000
Diane Nester Kresh |
Offering High Quality Reference Service on the Web Today's researchers need to find quickly information that is usable, relevant, authoritative and verifiable. To meet that need, libraries must adapt our traditional strengths of acquiring, describing, and serving information to an environment that is not bound by time or physical place... |
D-Lib
January 2000
David M. Levy |
Digital Libraries and the Problem of Purpose Which way ought we to go in digital library research and development?...I'll start by reviewing the problem of purpose in American public libraries and American academic/research libraries before turning to digital libraries... |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2008 |
D-Lib -- In Brief News about a digital libraries curriculum, CrossRef, an independent membership association that provides a linking infrastructure for scholarly communication, and other reports on items of interest to librarians. |
Information Today
December 20, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries? |
Information Today
July 23, 2015 |
Innovative Publishes Report on Libraries and the Web Innovative released a survey report of 4,000-plus academic library users in the U.K. |
D-Lib
March 2003
Susan Gibbons |
Building Upon the MyLibrary Concept to Better Meet the Information Needs of College Students Librarians cannot afford to be complacent in the knowledge that college students consider it easier to find resources using the Internet than by using the library. |
Searcher
April 2007
Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project. |
