Melody Smith

About Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

New Librarian of Congress Appointed

By |July 20th, 2016|News|Comments Off on New Librarian of Congress Appointed

To quote a colleague, “They finally picked a librarian to do a librarian’s job!” She was referring to the recent appointment of a new […]

Open is Not Free

By |July 20th, 2016|News, reference|Comments Off on Open is Not Free

The proponents of open access argue that the taxpayers have paid the invoice and therefore deserve the product. They are referring to the scientific research […]

The Dog Days of Summer

By |July 18th, 2016|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on The Dog Days of Summer

“It didn’t use to be this hot when I was younger.” I have heard that phrase for as long as I can remember. I […]

Indexing History One Record at a Time

By |July 14th, 2016|indexing, News, reference, search|Comments Off on Indexing History One Record at a Time

Genealogy projects have long been a great example of proper indexing against a solid database that produces great findability. One such project that was […]

Talking AI

By |July 7th, 2016|News, semantic, Technology|Comments Off on Talking AI

Recently a crowd of 300+ people attended an event titled, “The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Emerging Topics and Social Benefit.” The four hour discussion […]

Focusing on the Infrastructure

By |July 7th, 2016|News|Comments Off on Focusing on the Infrastructure

The EC-funded project THOR – Technical and Human infrastructure for Open Research – has been working towards a cultural change for quite some time. […]

Call for Applications: NLM/Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) Leadership Fellows Program

By |July 7th, 2016|News|Comments Off on Call for Applications: NLM/Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) Leadership Fellows Program

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced the 2016-2017 year of the leadership program jointly sponsored with the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries […]

Finding More That Brexit Impacts

By |June 29th, 2016|Business strategy, News, Technology|Comments Off on Finding More That Brexit Impacts

With each passing day, the fallout from the United Kingdom (UK) leaving the European Union (EU) keeps revealing itself. ZDNet brought this news to us […]

Publishing Gets a Depressing Report Card

By |June 29th, 2016|News|Comments Off on Publishing Gets a Depressing Report Card

Industry reports indicate that publishers’ revenues were down in January 2016 as compared to January 2015. The Association of American Publishers (AAP) brought this interesting […]