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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.   |
D-Lib
December 2005
Bonita Wilson |
Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources The Library of Congress Global Gateway provides access to the World Digital Library (WDL) which offers international cultural digital resources available via the Internet worldwide. |
ONLINE
November 2000
Mick O'Leary |
Grading the Library Portals The ideal library portal will have the most thorough coverage possible in several areas of the library profession for all types of libraries... |
Information Today
April 11, 2011 |
Gale Offers Free Access to Resources During National Library Week Gale is offering free access to six online resources for use by any library. Free access runs through National Library Week, from April 10 to April 24, 2011. |
Information Today
November 24, 2008
Susanne Bjorner |
Europeana.eu Launches--Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well, but Temporarily Speechless The European Union-funded collaboration provides free access to some 2 million digital objects from libraries, museums, archives, and audio-visual collections in 27 member European countries. |
Information Today
February 3, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Update on Gale -- Mobile, Global, and In Context At the recent ALA Midwinter meeting, I caught up with Nader Qaimari, senior vice president, marketing, Cengage Learning, to talk about recent developments at Gale and get a peek at some forthcoming products. |
D-Lib
January 2006
Martin Kalfatovic |
Galaxy of Knowledge: Art & Design Galaxy of Knowledge, is Smithsonian Institution Libraries' portal to its collections and to a wide array of exceptional Internet resources. |
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 8, 2015 |
ProQuest Makes More Early European Books Available ProQuest launched Collection 7, the newest part of its Early European Books database, with 7,450 titles. |
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
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. |
Entrepreneur
November 2006
Nichole L. Torres |
Beyond the Books Take advantage of the business resources your local library has to offer. |
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
March 19, 2012 |
Gale Aims to Transform the Online Library Experience With Gateways Designed to represent the unique way in which a community interacts with its public library, Gale Gateways bring together thematic products and services to provide an organized approach to help patrons find and use information. |
Information Today
March 12, 2012 |
3M Cloud Library Announces Integration With Polaris ILS The 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service will now be integrated with the Polaris Integrated Library System, allowing patrons at participating libraries to discover both physical and digital collections from wherever they are browsing. |
Information Today
March 13, 2008 |
New York Public Library Unveils Transformation Plan The building will be renovated and two hub libraries will be built in northern Manhattan and Staten Island. |
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... |
Information Today
June 27, 2011
Barbara Quint |
The British Library Joins Google Books Google Books continues its march through the national libraries of Europe with the announcement of a deal with the British Library. |
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
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. |
Information Today
December 17, 2009 |
Gale Announces New iPhone Application for Library Research AccessMyLibrary, an advocacy program, is a portal from the internet to libraries, allowing web searchers to find what they need by connecting them to their local libraries. |
Information Today
May 6, 2014
Brandi Scardilli |
Free Language Learning Tools at the Library Both public and academic libraries may provide tools that teach a variety of languages for free. Here are a few popular examples. |
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
June 27, 2011
Barbie E. Keiser |
EPA Releases Its National Library Network Strategic Plan FY2012-2014 This is a 3-year strategic plan which addresses four key areas -- EPA library network governance, services, collections (electronic and physical), and communications outreach and training. |
Information Today
March 5, 2007 |
ProQuest CSA's Marketing Toolkit for Public Libraries Makes Its Debut ProQuest CSA just launched a free Library Marketing Toolkit for public librarians, who are facing many challenges today. |
D-Lib
February 2006
Erika Dowell |
D-Lib Featured Collection February 2006: The Lilly Library The Lilly Library, like other special collections libraries, is poised between the print and the digital worlds. |
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. |
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... |
Information Today
May 30, 2013 |
OCLC Working With Libraries to Test Record Management Functionality OCLC is working with 13 libraries on three continents to beta test OCLC WorldShare Metadata Record Manager, which offers new record management functionality to enhance a library's ability to catalog its collections. |
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
October 8, 2015 |
NoveList Becomes Libhub Initiative Sponsor It joins others such as Atlas Systems, Innovative, and SirsiDynix in providing its expertise and supporting the initiative's efforts to increase the visibility of library collections on the web. |
Information Today
August 18, 2008 |
WebJunction Launches New Social Learning Site OCLC announced that WebJunction, the online learning community for librarians and library staff, has launched a new social and learning experience |
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
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. |
D-Lib
November 2000
Lynne Brindley |
Taking the British Library Forward in the Twenty-first Century It is at this very time of success that the British Library needs to turn to, and accelerate its engagement with, the critical and transformational issues associated with the digital world and the new demands being made by our wide range of users and stakeholders... |
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
February 11, 2002
Rebecca Lenzini |
Washington's Governor Proposes Closing State Library to Save Money The governor's office in the state of Washington has proposed closing the Washington State Library by this October. This move is part of an effort to reduce overall state spending by more than $500 million to solve a $1.2 billion shortfall in Washington's biennial budget... |
Information Today
November 2000 |
Libraries Receive Grants to Digitize Resources The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the federal agency that lends support to the nation's museums and libraries, has announced the recipients of its Library Preservation and Digitization Grants... |
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. |
Information Today
February 19, 2009 |
WebJunction Offers Guide to Library Management Competencies WebJunction, the online learning community for librarians and library staff, has released Library Management Competencies, to help library managers be more successful in their work. |
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. |
Information Today
October 10, 2011 |
OCLC's Geek the Library Campaign Receives Additional Funding OCLC's Geek the Library community awareness campaign, piloted in 2009 and 2010 and now available to all U.S. public libraries, received an additional grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. |
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
May 27, 2014 |
BiblioBoard and Library Journal Launch Ebook Discovery Service BiblioBoard worked with Library Journal to create SELF-e, an ebook discovery service that helps public library patrons find works by self-published authors. |
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. |
ONLINE
July 2000
Mick O'Leary |
NorthStarNet: A Model for Community Information All libraries face a great challenge in the age of the Web: how do you respond when you've lost your monopoly? How do you justify yourself when millions of people have turned to the Web for information they once obtained only from you?... |
Information Today
July 22, 2014 |
OCLC Gets Grant to Promote Early Literacy in Public Libraries OCLC's project will increase libraries' awareness of the new service model and help library staff members and administrators support their early literacy services. |
Searcher
September 2005
Pascal Lupien |
Le Meilleur (The Best) de l'internet: A Review of French-Language Information Sources The movement by the French government to create a European digital library is in part a response to Google Print, and the fear that French literature on the Web will be filtered through English speakers. The number of French databases online, however, is growing quickly. |
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
July 21, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Voters and Public Library Funding: An OCLC Market Research Report Public libraries are in trouble. Costs and demands for their services continue to rise, while revenue and support for maintaining, much less increasing, financial support continue to sink. |
