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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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
August 27, 2015
IFLA Statement Encourages Advocacy for Patron Privacy The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions released the "IFLA Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment." mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
September 2, 2014
Marydee Ojala
The Lyon Declaration Tackles Information Access and Sustainable Development At the 80th IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) World Library and Information Congress on Aug. 18, 2014, in Lyon, France, IFLA introduced the Lyon Declaration on Access to Information. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
May 17, 2012
IFLA Releases Background Paper on E-Lending As part of its work on the 2011-2012 Key Initiatives, the International Federation of Library Associations Governing Board appointed a working group to draft a background paper on digital lending. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
February 28, 2013
IFLA Launches Resources for eLending in Libraries The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions launched a new set of resources relating to ebooks and libraries. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
September 3, 2013
Marydee Ojala
Riding the Waves or Caught in the Tide A few of the perplexing situations that could transform libraries in the future were touched on by Ingrid Parent, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions president, in the IFLA Trend Report "Riding the Waves or Caught in the Tide?" mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
October 2, 2008
EPA Reopens Regional and Headquarters Libraries The re-opening of regional libraries in Chicago, Dallas and Kansas City and the library at Headquarters will help the Agency better share information. mark for My Articles similar articles
D-Lib
October 2007
Anna Gold
Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 2: Libraries and the Data Challenge: Roles and Actions for Libraries Once libraries and librarians have forged new partnerships with scientists and data managers, then they will be truly integral to the stewardship of data as a vital part of the scholarly record. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
February 12, 2007
Barbie E. Keiser
EPA Libraries: Where Do They Stand Now? Much has transpired in the year since our last NewsBreak concerning the closure of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency libraries. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
February 21, 2006
Barbie E. Keiser
Will Budget Constraints Sound a Death Knell for EPA Libraries? President Bush's American Competitive Initiative would cut $2 million that supports a network of 27 libraries. How will the work of the libraries' staffs change if these proposed budget cuts are approved? mark for My Articles similar articles
D-Lib
August 2005
Clifford Lynch
Where Do We Go From Here? The Next Decade for Digital Libraries The next decade for digital libraries may be characterized by the transition from technologies and prototypes to the ubiquitous, immersive, and pervasive deployment of digital library technologies and services in the broader information and information technology landscape. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
September 10, 2007
IFLA Receives Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grant The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions announced the receipt of a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Libraries initiative. mark for My Articles similar articles
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." mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
April 2001
Wallace Koehler
Dot-Lib for Libraries -- Can It Happen? Ask ICANN If museums have their own gTLD, why not libraries? That's simple enough, but reaching that goal may be a bit more complex... mark for My Articles similar articles
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2011
Marydee Ojala
Why I Library, and You Should Too As technology changes physical collections to electronic ones, and reshapes the entire notion of what a library is, the noun librarian is becoming even less appropriate for the profession. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
November 14, 2011
IFLA Launches New Webpages on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions Copyright exceptions enable libraries to preserve and make available works. In many countries they have been established in the print era and not been updated to meet the needs of the digital age. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Gary Price
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
July 15, 2014
International Organizations Ask Elsevier to Withdraw TDM Policy International library and research organizations submitted an open letter to Elsevier asking the company to abandon its text and data mining policy. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
September 2003
Dick Kaser
World Library Congress Denounces USA PATRIOT Act A International Federation of Library Associations resolution called for the repeal or amendment of the USA PATRIOT Act and similar laws in other nations. mark for My Articles similar articles
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2011
Casarosa et al.
Report on the Workshop "Linking Research and Education in Digital Libraries" The theme of this workshop was a review of the roles of information professionals, considering not only the impact brought by the advances in the technical dimension, but also other dimensions such as policy, quality, user profiles, and legal aspects. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
February 2005
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice - Round Up the Unusual Suspects! How could Google's plans to offer digitized book content of brick-and-mortar libraries affect the library world? mark for My Articles similar articles
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2003
Marydee Ojala
What's in a Name? The vote was to remain as Special Libraries Association. For some, this was nothing less than an identity crisis. Was this an association for librarians or not? mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
July 15, 2014
Barbie E. Keiser
WIPO Considers Changes to Broadcasting Copyrights Recently the World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights met in order to discuss its Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations, which could be enforced by 2015. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
February 2010
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice - Homecoming What drove me into severing my long membership with the Special Libraries Association was its decision to launch its second century by joining the opposition to Google Books. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
December 10, 2013
Three Library Associations Shut Down The Communications Group announced the end of its association management division, which manages three national library associations. mark for My Articles similar articles
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... mark for My Articles similar articles
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... mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
October 4, 2004
Weekly News Digest R.R. Bowker Acquires Syndetic Solutions... Library Groups Endorse Intellectual Property Declaration... Swets Launches SwetsWise Linker... mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
March 2008
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice - Hey, OCLC! Got a Minute? The greatest reaction to the Working Group's report on bibliographic control is that the Library of Congress might have better things to do with its resources than serve as the primary cataloger for the libraries of the world. mark for My Articles similar articles
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... mark for My Articles similar articles
D-Lib
August 2005
William Y. Arms
A Viewpoint Analysis of the Digital Library Should digital libraries be encouraged to develop independently or together? mark for My Articles similar articles
D-Lib
September 2006
Choi & Rasmussen
What Is Needed to Educate Future Digital Librarians: A Study of Current Practice and Staffing Patterns in Academic and Research Libraries Digital libraries are the future of academic and research institutions, and digital professionals will be required to have more breadth and depth of knowledge and skills across the dimensions of traditional library knowledge, technology, and human relations. mark for My Articles similar articles
D-Lib
April 2007
In Brief From Partition to Direct Rule: 50 Years of Northern Ireland Parliamentary Debates Online... The Repository for the Laboratory Project... In the News... etc. mark for My Articles similar articles
D-Lib
January 2002
Suzana Sukovic
Beyond the scriptorium: The Role of the Library in Text Encoding Development of electronic textual resources means dealing with documents in new ways and on different levels, often involving work on a document's content through text encoding. This development challenges the library's assumed position in the research process... mark for My Articles similar articles
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2004
Marydee Ojala
The HomePage: Disruptive? Who You Calling Disruptive? Disruptive technologies, those that require a complete rethinking of an existing business model, are endemic to the library and information world. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
January 19, 2004
Barbara Quint
OCLC Shares Its Strategic Vision The nation's leading library services vendor, OCLC, has released a strategic vision report. The 2003 Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition report reviews global issues affecting the future of libraries, museums, archives, and librarians. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
April 2004
Barbara Quint
Governance The concept of universal service to all has been the impossible dream of librarians. Now technology has brought us the opportunity to make that dream a reality. But our governance reins us in, holds us back, keeps us from reaching up and out to that grand goal. mark for My Articles similar articles
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2012
Marydee Ojala
Value, Vision, and Big Data Librarians understood Big Data before Big Data was cool -- and before it gained such popularity. Information professionals must seize these opportunities and convince those outside the profession that we bring significant value to the Big Data world. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
November 2011
Rushton & Funke
The Goodness in the Evil of SEO - Why Search Engine Optimization Matters to Information Professionals Some information professionals view SEO with some reservation or even actual contempt due to the rampant SEO techniques that reduce the quality of search results by driving traffic to sites that take advantage of trending searches rather than useful information. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
June 14, 2010
Support for Public Access to Oil Leak Monitoring Data Almost 40 organizations led by OpenTheGovernment.org and including a number of library associations, joined in sending a letter to President Obama urging him to give the public access to all monitoring data. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
March 17, 2008
Barbie E. Keiser
EPA Library Closures: Management Incompetence or Something More Sinister? The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found extensive problems with how EPA implemented the library closures and questions any cost savings as a result of these efforts to consolidate. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
June 2006
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice - Cassandra Grumbles A library is what is left over when a librarian goes home. mark for My Articles similar articles