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Information Today October 27, 2008 |
LISjobs.com Launches New Website Webmaster Rachel Singer Gordon says the redesign brings LISjobs in line with current web standards and adds new content and features.  |
Information Today April 29, 2013 |
collectionHQ Expands Collection Development Tools to Ebook Titles The addition of these tools, called the ebook module, means that for the first time, librarians can easily access data that compare ebook and print holdings.  |
Information Today February 4, 2013 |
EBSCO Releases eBook Public Library Collection eBook Public Library Collection includes more than 25,000 general reference ebook titles in a variety of subjects and topics including social sciences, language and literature, and science and technology.  |
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.  |
Information Today November 17, 2011 |
New Resources From NoveList to Connect Library Patrons to Services The NoveList website and a corresponding Facebook page have been designed to help librarians connect their patrons to more books and more library services.  |
PC Magazine January 10, 2007 |
Wired, Don't Quit Your Day Job A few products that differed in reviews between Wired magazine and this one.  |
Information Today May 10, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases Ebook Subscription Collection for Business Professionals BusinessCore is designed to support the learning and research needs of business professionals. The collection is available as an annual subscription with unlimited access to the content.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2011 Robert A. Schrier |
Digital Librarianship & Social Media: the Digital Library as Conversation Facilitator One of the ways digital librarians can cultivate a broader awareness of their collections is through social networking.  |
Information Today October 15, 2013 |
EBSCO Introduces 15 New Ebook Subject Sets These sets of titles from leading publishers are designed to simplify collection development by helping librarians start or enhance their ebook programs with subject-specific ebooks.  |
Information Today September 15, 2011 |
Springer Releases New Download Tool for MARC Records or Ebook Title Lists This new tool is easy to use and allows librarians to download a batch of records to a library's Springer eBook Collection. The new tool is available through Springer's MARC portal.  |
Information Today August 18, 2011 |
EBSCONET Offers Real-Time Access to EBSCO A-to-Z e-Holdings Data When viewing a title on EBSCONET, librarians can now see the library's complete holdings for that title, as managed in the EBSCO A-to-Z listing service.  |
Information Today October 29, 2012 |
EBSCO Offers Library & Information Science Source Library & Information Science Source is a full-text resource designed to help librarians and researchers easily find the latest information in a rapidly evolving field of library and information science.  |
Information Today March 8, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases First Subscription Ebook Collection eBook Academic Subscription Collection supplies full-text ebooks covering a broad spectrum of academic subjects from business to science and engineering to the humanities. Nearly 70,000 titles are included.  |
Information Today August 3, 2009 |
Wolters Kluwer Health Launches Interactive Platform for Pharmacology Journal Content AdisOnline has been enhanced to meet the changing market needs of a growing number of clinicians, researchers, and librarians seeking means to greater efficiency.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 2004 |
T.H.E. Journal Launches Online Product-Review Forum for Education Market This free Web site offers peer reviews of hardware, software (instructional and administrative), and services in the K-12 and higher education markets.  |
Information Today February 21, 2013 |
EBSCO Publishing Introduces 23 New eBook Subject Sets The eBook Subject Sets are prepackaged sets of titles from leading publishers in specific, high-interest topic areas chosen to meet libraries' needs while simplifying collection development.  |
The Motley Fool September 12, 2006 |
Digging for Historical Prices If you want to find out how much a certain stock was trading for on a certain day in history, perhaps to calculate how much it's grown since then, you need some historical prices.  |
Information Today July 11, 2013 |
EBSCO Acquires Euromoney Ebook Collection Subscribers can choose one of three acquisition options for the collection (ownership, subscription, or short-term loan) or a combination of the options.  |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2005 Marydee Ojala |
Ownership, Access, Retrieval, and Sharing Today, it's about sharing. Collaboration tools are in vogue. Online discussion lists and blogs encourage the sharing of thoughts, opinions, expertise, and even links to journal articles.  |
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  |
Searcher October 2011 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Ideal Library In the best of all possible worlds, what would the best of all possible libraries look like? Who would it serve? What would it do?  |
Information Today June 25, 2013 |
EBSCO and Ingram Combine Ebook Collections More than 400,000 ebooks from EBSCO's academic collection are now available on Ingram's Online Acquisitions and Selection Information System platform.  |
Information Today August 30, 2010 |
ebrary Offers CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles Published annually, the CHOICE OAT list represents the top 10% of more than 7,000 academic books, electronic media, and internet resources reviewed by CHOICE that year.  |
Information Today November 4, 2010 |
ebrary Launches Ebook Ordering System To help libraries more affordably and efficiently acquire, manage, and distribute e-books from leading publishers, ebrary announced it has launched a new ordering system with instant fulfillment and real-time collection management.  |
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 July 1, 2014 |
Library Crowdfunding Site Offers OA Digital Collections Librarians can visit the site to prioritize and select the digital projects they'd like to see realized.  |
Information Today November 26, 2013 |
EBSCO Introduces eBook History Collection EBSCO Information Services released eBook History Collection as its newest ebook subscription package integrated with EBSCOhost.  |
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 February 11, 2014 |
EBSCO Introduces eBook Religion Collection The collection includes ebook selections for its religion-focused student and scholarly customers titled eBook Religion Collection, which debuted with more than 4,100 titles from 150-plus publishers.  |
Searcher April 2005 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Great Equalizer Chatter about Google's library digitization project continues to fill the electronic conversations and trade press of librarians.  |
Information Today March 11, 2013 |
EBSCO Introduces eBook Clinical Collection eBook Clinical Collection features more than 1,700 titles in medical specialties, nursing, allied health, and general practice.  |
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.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Chris Thompson |
Harvard's Alternative to Google Books Universities launch a digital public library which will archive every book in the public domain and offer them online to anyone. The library's prototype is expected to launch this year.  |
Information Today September 8, 2008 |
Credo Reference Launches Improved Interface Credo Reference, the online reference library, has completely updated and enhanced its interface.  |
The Motley Fool August 12, 2008 Mac Greer |
Fool Video: 3 Tech Stocks for Now Is it time for investors to buy tech? This question is discussed in this video.  |
Searcher March 2001 Barbara Quint |
On Myths: A Letter to Non-Subscribers As for that misty mystical myth of some Golden Age of Libraries where all truth was handmade and hand delivered and all patrons were gratefully enriched by the blessed hands of librarians scattering largesse throughout the land...pull the other one, I'm starting to walk funny...  |
Information Today June 30, 2011 |
Serials Solutions Developing New Web-Scale Management Solution The new Serials Solutions service will address the industry's fundamental shift to electronic content, while still supporting librarians' needs to manage their print and local collections.  |
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.  |
ONLINE May/Jun 2003 |
Hardcopy Recommended Reading on the Technical Aspects of Librarianship  |
JavaWorld October 2000 Bruce Eckel |
Everything is an object, Part 2 Eckel takes you through name visibility and using components from other libraries; the static keyword; and comments and embedded documentation. By the end, you should be able to build your first Java program...  |
Information Today January 5, 2016 |
Wikipedia Celebrates Its 15th Birthday With Librarian-Centric Campaign The Wikipedia Library team invites librarians to help Wikipedia celebrate its 15th birthday on Jan. 15, 2016, by adding one reference to any Wikipedia article.  |
D-Lib September 2000 Paul Miller |
Collected Wisdom: Some Cross-domain Issues of Collection Level Description The desire to describe collections of material is evident across all our memory institutions: libraries, museums, archives, and beyond. The importance of "the collection", however, and the manner by which it is most often described, differs.  |
Information Today November 24, 2008 Barbara Quint |
The Wisdom of Crowds of Librarians Is on the Way--In Time: Reference Extract Experts from three top library and information science institutions have begun a process that they promise will lead to a new search engine with a new infrastructure designed to emphasize authoritative content.  |
ONLINE Marydee Ojala |
Search Is Not Static Since search is not static, information professionals should strive to understand the changes, evaluate their benefits (or detriments), and devise search strategies to accommodate them.  |
Information Today December 10, 2007 |
ARL Publishes Report on the Print-to-Electronic Transition for Journals The report examines the issues associated with the migration from dual-format publishing toward electronic-only publication of journals.  |
Searcher September 2011 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Have I Got a Deal for You? As volatile changes continue to rock the publishing world, librarians dealing with collection purchasing decisions are buffeted by new content delivery modes (ebooks are the latest storm center) and shifting revenue models.  |
ONLINE Jan./Feb. 2007 Nancy Garman |
That Was Then ... This Is Now Here are a few flashbacks to articles that appeared in a search magazine over the last 25 years.  |
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 August 2005 Paepcke et al. |
Dewey Meets Turing: Librarians, Computer Scientists, and the Digital Libraries Initiative One of the more intriguing aspects of the Digital Libraries Initiative was its matchmaking coup of uniting librarians and computer scientists.  |