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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 June 28, 2010 |
ACRL Releases Report on Libraries and Higher Education in 2025 The report presents 26 possible scenarios for the future which may have an impact on all types of academic libraries over the next 15 years.  |
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 September 30, 2014 |
ACRL Standard Available for Public Comment The Distance Learning Section of ACRL announced that its standards committee prepared a draft revision of the 2008 Standards for Distance Learning Library Services.  |
Information Today October 5, 2009 |
New Report on Filings in the Google Books Settlement The Association of Research Libraries, the American Library Association, and the Association of College and Research Libraries have issued a report that summarizes information about the filings that have been submitted to the federal district court presiding over the Google Books litigation.  |
Information Today December 21, 2009 |
Library Associations Raise Google Book Search Pricing Concerns to DOJ The library associations urge the Department of Justice to request the court to review the pricing of the institutional subscriptions to ensure that the economic objectives set forth in the settlement agreement are met.  |
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 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 August 13, 2012 |
ALA Releases Report on Ebook Business Models for Public Libraries The report, which was created by the ALA Digital Content and Libraries Working Group, suggests opportunities for publishers to showcase content through public libraries.  |
Information Today October 28, 2014 |
ACRL Extends Public Comments Deadline The draft revision of the 2008 Standards for Distance Learning Library Services from the Distance Learning Section of ACRL is now open for public comment until Dec. 1, 2014.  |
Information Today February 23, 2009 |
Library Associations Oppose Repealing Public Access Bill, Urge Action The library groups say that the bill would amend the U.S. Copyright Code, prohibiting federal agencies from requiring, as a condition of funding agreements, public access to the products of the research they fund.  |
Information Today April 17, 2008 |
ALA Releases `The State of America's Libraries' Report Libraries of all kinds continue to be "engines of learning, literacy, and economic development in communities nationwide."  |
Information Today April 4, 2013 |
New ACRL White Paper: 'Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy' This white paper explores and articulates three intersections among scholarly communication and information literacy.  |
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.  |
Information Today May 3, 2010 Paula J. Hane |
Celebrating Libraries and Promoting Choose Privacy Week (May 2-8) Choose Privacy Week, which takes place May 2-8, 2010, is about bringing information privacy issues out into the open and discussing them - and libraries are the perfect places for those conversations to take place.  |
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 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 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 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.  |
Information Today May 19, 2011 |
Library Copyright Alliance Releases Statement on Copyright Reform Libraries have always advocated for reasonable copyright policy -- in the courts as well as in the U.S. Congress.  |
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 January 30, 2014 |
Credo Facilitates Information Literacy Instruction Credo launched a cloud-based Information Literacy Course Module designed to help libraries and academic institutions teach formalized, standards-driven information literacy courses.  |
D-Lib February 2009 Bonita Wilson |
Challenges and Opportunities Historically, libraries have been instrumental in helping individuals and businesses through difficult economic times  |
Information Today August 27, 2009 Paula J. Hane |
Anti Google Book Settlement Organizations Band Together in Open Book Alliance The countdown to the Oct. 7 court hearing on the Google Book settlement is on.  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2011 |
In Brief and In the News A new step toward digital library foundations... Scholarly reading and the value of library resources... Reposit: positing a new kind of repository deposit...  |
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...  |
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...  |
D-Lib June 2004 Norbert Lossau |
Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet If libraries do not want to become marginalized in a key area of their traditional services, they need to acknowledge the challenges that come with the globalization of scholarly information, the existence and further growth of the academic internet .  |
D-Lib October 2007 |
In Brief EMC Heritage Trust Project Awards... Investigating overlay journals: introducing the RIOJA Project... Bungee View: An open-source visualization-based interface to search, browse, and data-mine image collections... etc.  |
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.  |
D-Lib October 2004 |
In Brief RCDL 2004: Sixth Russian Conference on Digital Libraries: Pushchino, Russia, September 29 - October 1, 2004... DELOS and the Future of Digital Libraries... ACRL 2005 Awards Program... In the News: New Pathways to the National Science Digital Library... etc.  |
D-Lib February 2008 Datema et al. |
In Brief Getting the most out of your institutional repository... Science assets of the digital age at risk... Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement: a documentary history... etc.  |
D-Lib November 2004 |
In Brief The OCKHAM Initiative - Building Component-based Digital Library Services and Collections... ACRL's Effective Practices Clearinghouse... SEPIADES: Open Source Software Tool for Cataloguing Photographic Collections... etc.  |