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Searcher August 2002 Carol Tenopir |
Educating Tomorrow's Information Professionals Today It is a great time to enter the information professions, but one that poses challenges for LIS schools and employers, as a new generation of information professionals comes on the scene and prepares to tackle jobs in a variety of environments. |
Searcher August 2002 Rebecca T. Lenzini |
The Graying of the Library Profession A survey of our professional association and their responses. |
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. |
Searcher August 2002 Cynthia L. Shamel |
Building a Brand: Got Librarian? Librarians need to do a better job of getting their message out (and conveying a sense of their usefulness) to the business community at large. |
D-Lib August 2006 |
Developing a Digital Libraries Education Program: JCDL 2006 Workshop Report Indiana University Bloomington and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offered a full-day workshop aimed at digital library professionals, researchers, and educators to cover prominent issues surrounding digital libraries education. |
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. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2002 Anita Coleman |
Interdisciplinarity: The Road Ahead for Education in Digital Libraries This article reviews the state of education in digital libraries and curriculum planning documents from professional associations in two areas: Library and Information Science; and Computing. |
D-Lib July 2001 Hans Roes |
Digital Libraries and Education: Trends and Opportunities This article attempts to identify strategic issues for libraries wishing to pursue a more active policy with regard to the changes affecting higher education due to the increased use of information and communication technologies... |
D-Lib October 2009 R.S.R. Varalakshmi |
Curriculum for Digital Libraries: An Analytical Study of Indian LIS Curricula To make digital information management a reality, Library and Information Science education programs in India now include digital library courses in their syllabi. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2009 Koelen & Quaye-Ballard |
The Importance of Digital Libraries in Joint Educational Programs A case study of a master of science program involving organizations in Ghana and the Netherlands. |
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 October 2003 Marcum & George |
Who Uses What? Report on a national survey of information users in colleges and universities |
Information Today February 25, 2014 Barbie E. Keiser |
Evaluating the Laura Bush 21st Century Grant Program Launched in 2003, the grant was designed to address a range of challenges facing libraries throughout the United States. |
Information Today October 6, 2011 |
Gale Launches Librareo--Free Web-Based Community for LIS Students Librareo is a free web-based community that supports the future of libraries and librarianship by providing students enrolled in Library and Information Studies programs with free access to the professional resources they'll rely upon following graduation. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2013 Forrest Wright |
What do Librarians Need to Know About MOOCs? The emergence of MOOCs represents a rising trend of removing the learning process from the physical campus, but to an exaggerated degree. This is not necessarily a negative trend; however it does have huge implications for university libraries. |
Searcher August 2002 Mary-Ellen Mort |
The Info Pro's Survival Guide to Job Hunting An effective online job search strategy you can adapt to your own career focus and industry target. |
D-Lib November 2001 Jola G.B. Prinsen |
A Challenging Future Awaits Libraries Able to Change Highlights of the International Summer School on the Digital Library... |
Searcher February 2006 David Grossman |
What's Next Much of the compilation, organization, management, and dissemination of information is currently happening outside the walls of the traditional library and that this phenomenon will continue to proliferate. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2005 Chris Balsano |
School Libraries Go Interactive An Illinois high school library uses online forms to stay in contact with the needs and requests of students and teachers. |
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 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. |
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. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2009 |
In Brief Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award... High precision and recall: Focuss.Info as community-driven search engine... Shared Shelf: partnership plans to launch networked image management platform... etc. |
Information Today April 29, 2013 Barbie E. Keiser |
Survey on U.S. Faculty Use of Scholarly Resources -- and the Academic Library The results provide "libraries, learned societies, and academic publishers with insight into the evolving attitudes and practices of faculty members in the context of substantial environmental change for higher education." |
D-Lib May/Jun 2013 Alex H. Poole |
"Curate Thyself" and the DigCCurr Experts' Meeting: Communication, Collaboration, and Strategy in Digital Curation Education The three-day DigCCurr event demonstrated that a symbiotic relationship between education preparing students to serve as digital curation professionals, and continuing education in the area, must be established. |
Information Today March 3, 2015 Brandi Scardilli |
University Libraries Offer an Alternative to Traditional Publishing As digital tools get easier to use, many institutions are starting their own publishing programs in an effort to offer more varied services to their communities. |
D-Lib March 2002 Loriene Roy |
Oksale An indigenous approach to creating a virtual library of education resources... |
Searcher Jul/Aug 2010 |
Correspondence Letters from SLA's CEO and a Searcher-reading SLA member about a recent article and Searcher's Voice column, respectively, on matters concerning the Special Libraries Association. |
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 Sep/Oct 2014 |
In Brief and In the News Higher education, library groups release Net Neutrality Principles... ALA applauds Congress for passing the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act... Finalists announced for the Digital Preservation Awards 2014... |
Searcher May 2006 Barbie E. Keiser |
Beyond ERIC: The Early Years (Part 3) As education moves us from the realm of the child to the adult, the emphasis of the resources shifts from education to learning, with greater responsibility placed on the student for finding, using, sharing, and expanding knowledge in a particular discipline. |
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... |
T.H.E. Journal March 25, 2010 Natasha Wanchek |
Library 2.0: Enter the Teacher Librarian Enthusiast Technology is changing the role of libraries - and the responsibilities of librarians - at schools internationally. |
ONLINE Nov./Dec. 2006 Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage - Perspectives, Perceptions, and Periscopes Librarians share the same perspective when naming their type of library. Perceptions of libraries, however, differ, depending on perspective. |
Searcher May 2010 Matarazzo & Pearlstein |
Survival Lessons for Libraries: Staying Afloat in Turbulent Waters -- News/Media Libraries Hit Hard A discussion of the events and circumstances affecting media organizations and their libraries under difficult economic conditions. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2001 |
Faculty and Reference Librarians A Virtual Dynamic Duo At Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) in Gainesville, Fla., continuous steps are underway to facilitate the redesign of teaching and learning environments as a proactive measure for remodeling old styles of instruction in order to blend newer styles of education effectively in a digital age... |
Information Today March 28, 2013 |
EveryoneOn Launches to Promote Digital Literacy March 21, 2013 marked the launch of Everyone On -- a national campaign to promote the importance of digital literacy skills and increase access to computer and internet training. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2011 Diekema et al. |
Teaching Use of Digital Primary Sources for K-12 Settings This paper describes learning outcomes of a three-day workshop on integrating primary sources into K-12 teaching. |
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. |
Information Today September 14, 2009 |
IMLS Grant Will Help Libraries Help the Unemployed Job seekers have packed libraries around the country during recent months, searching online job sites, building resumes, making use of a wide range of other employment services and resources. More help is on the way. |
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. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2009 |
In Brief Reflective learning for the net generation... The SKUA project: prototyping a distributed network of semantically aware shared annotation services... The Erewhon project: more comprehensive location-based services... etc. |
Financial Planning November 1, 2012 Ann Marsh |
25 Great Schools For Future Financial Planners The academic landscape for financial planning is shifting rapidly. Here s where to find the next generation of advisors. |
Searcher September 2002 Marylaine Block |
Doing it Right How some universities encourage the creation of prime research web sites |
Searcher Nov/Dec 2003 Bill Becker |
Library Grant Money on the Web: A Resource Primer What if a library -- a public, academic, school, government, special, private/corporate, or research library -- seeks corporate, foundation, individual, or government grants? How can a professional searcher help? |
D-Lib January 2002 Suzana Sukovic |
Beyond the scriptorium: The Role of the Library in Text Encoding Development of electronic textual resources means dealing with documents in new ways and on different levels, often involving work on a document's content through text encoding. This development challenges the library's assumed position in the research process... |
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. |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2011 Marydee Ojala |
Why I Library, and You Should Too As technology changes physical collections to electronic ones, and reshapes the entire notion of what a library is, the noun librarian is becoming even less appropriate for the profession. |
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 September 3, 2015 |
Gale Announces Academic Library Survey Results The survey on academic libraries shows that closer collaboration between librarians and faculty members is necessary for improved communication between the two groups. |