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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...   |
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? |
Information Today
March 8, 2010 |
Two New Ebook Surveys Highlight Interesting Trends HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, has released the full results of a fall 2009 survey of librarians on their attitudes and practices related to ebooks |
Information Today
February 2007
Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
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 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. |
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. |
Information Today
October 30, 2014 |
PCG Survey Reveals That Libraries Provide OA Funds Almost 25% of respondents noted that libraries offer funding for article processing charges), some of which comes from existing materials budgets. |
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. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2005
David Stern |
Open Access or Differential Pricing for Journals: The Road Best Traveled? The adoption of the OA model for journals will create serious instabilities within the existing scholarly publication industry. |
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. |
Information Today
April 4, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Library Ebook Lending Under Attack The options libraries have are poor and our customers are frustrated. There are numerous restrictions on lending, device incompatibilities, proprietary systems, interface issues, privacy issues, and more. |
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
June 11, 2012
Dan Tonkery |
BEA 2012: Libraries Still Draw the Short Stick Libraries do not have much to celebrate from Book Expo other than their copyright win at the Georgia State University and even that win may be short lived as the publishers have requested an injunction to stop certain types of usage of reserve material. |
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
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. |
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. |
Information Today
September 2001
Ana Arias Terry |
SSP Annual Meeting 2001 E-books took a back seat to discussions about collaboration and experimentation... |
Information Today
July 1, 2014
Nancy K. Herther |
Libraries Continue to Battle for Fair Access to Ebooks Academic and special libraries have found comparatively fewer problems in gaining access to ebooks for their clients than school and public libraries. |
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. |
Information Today
September 17, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases 2013 Serials Price Projections Report This report, based on surveys of a wide range of publishers and reviews of historical serials pricing data, provides serials price projections that will assist information professionals as they make budgeting decisions for the upcoming renewal season. |
Information Today
April 16, 2012 |
OverDrive to Preview Library Ebook Data at London Book Fair Data from OverDrive's global library network to be made available to participating libraries and publishers includes information about ebook and digital audiobook title circulation, book demand and holds, as well as web traffic and general demographics. |
Searcher
March 2005
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - "Real-World" Products and Academic Decisions Any online research tool that has no off-campus existence must be suspect, definitely if the librarians can find competitively priced resources that come close to the same quality. |
Information Today
February 2001
Paula J. Hane |
IT Interview Questia Provides Digital Library, Research Tools... |
D-Lib
October 2003
Marcum & George |
Who Uses What? Report on a national survey of information users in colleges and universities |
Information Today
December 2001
Donald T. Hawkins |
Frankfurt Book Fair and IBLC Symposium The FBF is concerned with all aspects of book publishing, and it is the largest trade show in the world... |
Information Today
August 15, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program. |
Information Today
March 18, 2013 |
Reprints Desk Launches Document Delivery Service for Academic Institutions Reprints Desk, Inc.announced the launch of A-Z Academic Document Delivery Collection, a new single-article document delivery retrieval service for academic libraries that provide literature acquisition services to faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students. |
D-Lib
April 2001 |
To the Editor In response to the opinion piece, The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the "Big Deal"... |
Searcher
September 2002
Barbara Quint |
The Eternal Watchdog What exactly will information professionals -- librarians or professional searchers or whatever you want to call us -- do in the future? What set of skills will we possess that will both identify us to our clients and earn us the big bucks? |
Searcher
January 2002
Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Information Today
September 17, 2013
Barbara Brynko |
What's Trending in Ebooks The good news is that ebooks are holding their own and still commanding a sizable portion of the publishing pie. Consumer demand for ebooks is being heard in all market segments, including the library space. |
Information Today
May 7, 2012
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest for Everyone: The Udini Service Officially Launches ProQuest has officially launched Udini, an end-user service that is open to all web users. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2007
Arthur Sale |
A Challenge for the Library Acquisition Budget Libraries have traditionally supported researchers as readers, but not as authors. It is desirable for the future of libraries, and for the future of research in their institutions, that libraries become engaged in this crucial step in the research process. |
Searcher
January 2002
Barbara Quint |
Now or Never! This is the best chance librarians will ever have to break the chains that have bound them and their budgets. No one knows better than the wise information professional how inevitable the final victory of the Web is... |
Information Today
July 18, 2011 |
Cambridge University Press to Launch Platform for Other Academic Publishers From October 2011, University Publishing Online will provide libraries with ebooks and related database products from a variety of academic publishers worldwide. |
Information Today
May 6, 2013 |
ebrary Adds Titles From Wiley to Academic Complete Academic Complete serves as a foundational, growing collection with more than 86,300 scholarly titles from which libraries can pinpoint patron needs and drive strategic ebook acquisition. |
Searcher
June 2005
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Tithing Set aside a portion of each year's library budget to support the information system you want to have in the future. |
Searcher
February 2007
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Good Ideas Donating books to libraries... The future of libraries... |
Information Today
October 15, 2012
Abby Clobridge |
Open Access Week Preview For most institutions, Open Access Week is a way to increase the visibility of open access among scientists, researchers, librarians, university faculty members, and students. |
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
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... |
Information Today
May 31, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Google Library Project Hit by Copyright Challenge from University Presses Extending the Google Print program to the digitization of five of the world's largest university research libraries, including copyrighted as well as non-copyrighted material, would inevitably seem to lead to a challenge of copyright violation. Oddly enough, the challenge has come from the less commercial publishers--the nonprofit university presses. |
Searcher
October 2005
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Apology How does Google Print contribute to the distribution of book literature? |
D-Lib
May 2000
Richard K. Johnson |
A Question of Access SPARC, BioOne, and Society-Driven Electronic Publishing |
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
January 2001
Gregory Crane |
Commercial Digital Libraries and the Academic Community How New Firms Might Develop New Relationships between "Publisher" and Higher Education... |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2010
Donald W. King |
An Approach to Open Access Author Payment This article discusses a few of the favorable and unfavorable issues with Open Access through author payment and proposes an approach that takes advantage of the favorable aspects and overcomes some of the unfavorable ones. |
Information Today
April 2001
Barbara Quint |
Possible-Recession Planning: Part Two What would this mean for information professionals and their vendors? At first glance, one can clearly see the ouch factor for already imperiled corporate and institutional librarians... |
Information Today
August 14, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Google Book Search Adds Big, Brave Partner: The University of California The 100 libraries on the 10 campuses of the University of California - the largest research and academic library in the world - opened a composite 34 million book collection to Google. |
