Similar Articles |
|
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 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? |
Information Today April 30, 2015 |
ARL Announces Copyright Policy Coalition The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), American Library Association, Center for Democracy & Technology, and seven other organizations launched the Re:create coalition for promoting balanced copyright policy. |
Information Today September 5, 2013 |
Polaris Streamlines ILS Migration Quality assurance and new structure for the implementations team helped Polaris Library Systems streamline its integrated library system migration process. |
Information Today October 31, 2013 |
LPC Debuts Library Publishing Directory The Library Publishing Coalition published the first edition of its Library Publishing Directory, which provides an overview of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries. |
Information Today August 19, 2010 |
EOS International Enters Digital Library Market The application and digital content may be stored on a local network server or accessed remotely from one of the company's global data centers. |
Information Today April 18, 2013 |
New OCLC Registry Service Shines a Spotlight on Libraries OCLC announced that libraries can increase their visibility on the web by registering basic local information with the OCLC Library Spotlight program, a free service that works with popular web services to promote libraries. |
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. |
Information Today May 13, 2002 Barbara Quint |
Academic Libraries Develop Integrated Portal Software Package Libraries continue to expand their "turf" in virtual space. Academic libraries that belong to the Association of Research Libraries have launched a Scholars Portal Project that will facilitate the extension of digital library service... |
Information Today January 6, 2011 |
ARL Announces 'Lib-Value' Website A searchable bibliographic database of library value and ROI literature is now freely available. |
Information Today July 29, 2014 |
ALA Survey Reveals Statistics on Technology in Libraries The survey found that almost 100% of U.S. public libraries provide workforce development training programs, online resources for finding jobs, and other technology skills training. |
Information Today April 14, 2011 |
ALA Releases 'The State of America's Libraries, 2011' The Great Recession may have come to an end, but hard-pressed Americans continue to turn to their local libraries for help in finding a job or launching their own business. This is one trend listed in the report. |
Information Today December 11, 2014 |
LIBLICENSE Model License Agreement Gets a Makeover This updated license incorporates library best practices as well as advice from legal and publishing professionals. |
Information Today November 4, 2010 |
University of Pittsburgh Library System Joins HathiTrust This library is the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in a digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. |
D-Lib April 2006 Bonita Wilson |
Change and the Need for Innovation Numerous challenges face libraries and other information organizations in this time of rapid change in both technology and culture. |
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. |
Information Today June 6, 2011 |
OCLC Web-scale Management Services on Target for July 1 Release In addition to the 32 committed libraries in the U.S., BIBSYS, the Norwegian library consortium signed an agreement with OCLC to base its new library management system on Web-scale Management Services, which will include management tools for more than 100 libraries in Norway. |
D-Lib October 2000 Carol Hansen Montgomery |
Electronic Journal Collections Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs: A Framework and Preliminary Observations... |
D-Lib May/Jun 2010 Xihui Zhen |
Overview of Digital Library Development in China The greatest challenges for Chinese national digital library projects are digital resource construction and a design of services provision. |
Information Today June 18, 2012 |
ebrary Releases Extended Access Extended Access reduces up-front costs to the library, eliminates speculative purchases of multiple copies, and prevents turn-aways when titles are in use. |
Information Today June 25, 2012 |
Penguin Group Launches Library Lending Pilot Program Penguin Group, The New York Public Library, and 3M Library Systems announced a pilot project that will make Penguin eBooks available to patrons of both The New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library. |
Information Today June 18, 2012 |
New Collaboration Announced -- Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb) GOKb will be an open, community-based, international data repository that will provide libraries with publication information about electronic resources. |
Information Today July 9, 2012 Paula J. Hane |
The Challenging Landscape of Ebooks in Libraries The overall growth in digital content of all kinds, and in particular, the growing importance and acceptance of ebooks, has clearly presented great opportunities for libraries, as well as plenty of challenges. |
Information Today September 17, 2015 |
Boopsie Reviews Its 2Q 2015 Accomplishments Boopsie for Libraries shared its most recent milestones: It has signed 12 new library clients in multiple library markets. |
Information Today November 7, 2013 |
Alexander Street Press Hosts Streaming Media Libraries have a new option for streaming their multimedia content: Alexander Street Press announced a single-platform hosting service for music and videos. |
D-Lib December 1999 |
Editorial As publications become available both online and in print, some groups of users find that they prefer the online versions. But in relinquishing the tradition of print journals, libraries require more than a few assurances from the publisher on whom they must depend... |
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. |
Search Engine Watch December 14, 2004 Gary Price |
Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries Google is working closely with five new content partners on a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google Print database. |
Information Today April 8, 2014 |
Associations Team Up for Research-Tracking Service The Association of Research Libraries received a joint $1 million grant from IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which will help ARL develop and launch the SHared Access Research Ecosystem. |
Information Today October 14, 2014 |
Intota Assessment Streamlines Collection Analysis ProQuest updated its Intota Assessment data analysis tool with title-linking functionality that helps academic libraries manage their collections while using the Resources for College Libraries list. |
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 February 7, 2008 |
Columbia University Collaborates With Microsoft on Digitization Project Columbia University and Microsoft are collaborating on an initiative to digitize a large number of books from Columbia University Libraries and to make them available to internet users. |
Information Today June 3, 2014 Nancy K. Herther |
Playing the Numbers: NISO/NASIG Focus On Best Practices for Library Usage Statistics The National Information Standards Organization, and the North American Serials Interest Group co-sponsored a webinar intended to "effectively understand and apply usage data," which is an important skill for librarians. |
Information Today February 24, 2011 Theresa Cramer |
New Study: Libraries Embrace Digital Content in Face of Budget Constraints At the very time that library budgets were being slashed, demand for the services provided by these institutions was increasing in the communities they served. Libraries have had to reprioritize and get creative with budgets. |
Information Today September 15, 2015 |
Zepheira Steps Up Its Linked Data Initiative for Public Libraries Based on the Libhub Initiative Early Adopter program of 12 libraries in the U.S. and Canada, the Experimenter Program is designed to build awareness of linked data through education and training. |
Information Today April 22, 2013 |
Ingram Expands OASIS Library Platform Through EBL Collaboration Through the alliance with EBL, Ingram will add more than 325,000 EBL ebook titles to the OASIS platform, substantially growing the selection of econtent available to libraries. |
D-Lib January 2004 Schonfeld et al. |
Library Periodicals Expenses Comparison of non-subscription costs of print and electronic formats on a life-cycle basis |
Information Today April 11, 2011 |
Library Copyright Alliance Releases Analysis of the Google Books Settlement Rejection The LCA comprises the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Association of College and Research Libraries. |
Information Today March 17, 2015 |
TLC Displays Reading Levels in Its ILS Products The Library Corp. added Reading Level Integration to its Library*Solution and Library*Solution for Schools. |
Information Today August 9, 2010 |
ARL Promotes Member Use of Large-Scale Digitization Principles Special collections often include valuable and unique materials, but also incur special responsibilities for their stewards. |
Information Today March 2, 2009 |
ARL Calls on OCLC to Develop New Policy for WorldCat Records The Association of Research Libraries Ad Hoc Task Force to Review the Proposed OCLC Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records has issued its final report, which calls on OCLC to develop a new policy to replace the one released in November 2008 |
T.H.E. Journal September 2000 |
Late Breaks - Endeavor Information Systems In association with Endeavor Information Systems, Sun Microsystems' technology is the incubator for a full-featured digital library solution, called ENCompass... |
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. |
Entrepreneur November 2006 Nichole L. Torres |
Beyond the Books Take advantage of the business resources your local library has to offer. |
Information Today August 26, 2010 |
The British Library to Offer Free Access to Bibliographic Records The U.K. national library has around 14 million catalogue records comprising a wealth of bibliographic data. The initiative will help expose this vast dataset to users worldwide. |
Information Today January 16, 2014 |
ProQuest Enhances Multimedia Discovery ProQuest's new Video Preservation and Discovery Service is designed to make it easier for university library patrons to find and access an institution's multimedia collections. |
Information Today June 28, 2012 Katherine Allen |
New European Library Portal Launched The European Library is a new discovery service that provides access to the collections of the national libraries of 46 European countries, plus a growing number of research libraries. |
Information Today October 6, 2015 |
EBSCO Rolls Out 2016 Serials Price Projections EBSCO Information Services introduced its "Serials Price Projections for 2016," which notes that the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and medical libraries is expected to be 4%-6%. |
Information Today August 26, 2010 |
"Geek the Library" Campaign Now Available to All U.S. Libraries The campaign is designed to highlight the vital role of public libraries in today's challenging economic environment and to increase local library support. |
D-Lib February 2000 Peter Hirtle |
Editorial: On eBooks, Open Archives, and Libraries |