Posts by Melody Smith
Video Contest Can Win Your Library Grant Money
Do you have best practices or essential advice to share when it comes to rolling out evidence-based practice resources at your organization?
Read MorePreserved Until When
Records management up to this point has been straightforward – preserve certain categories of paper records for time periods according to a retention schedule determined by applicable legal rules.
Read MoreLinked Open Data Brings Data Together
The Getty Research Institute has released the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) as Linked Open Data.
Read MoreData for Data
Organizations constantly try to get their arms around an ever-increasing amount of data in their networks and in doing so, some are turning to metadata to more effectively manage their big data.
Read MoreE-Books and the Evolution of Publishing
Not that long ago, getting published was the big hurdle for a writer to overcome. You could produce all you wanted, but unless you knew how to get somebody to read your random submission, or you were rich enough to self-publish, your writing lived in a drawer, waiting for you to give it to a friend who doesn’t want to read it.
It’s hard to believe how fast technology has opened publishing up to people. Now, anyone with an opinion has a platform, and while it’s as tough as ever to make a living writing, the platform, in many cases, is totally free. So that changes the hurdle from publication to recognition. If everybody has a voice, how do you get heard?
Read MoreFinding the Proverbial Needle
New technologies are responsible for the electronic storage of information. Interestingly enough, though, 90% of businesses are still storing documents in paper format, according to a study by JSE-listed storage management provider Metrofile.
Read MoreNew Information Source Launched
SharePoint Reviews and IT Unity have joined forces to share the most up-to-date information about what’s going on in the SharePoint and Office 365 communities. IT Unity Communiqué has been launched. With this new newsletter, you will learn about the latest innovations and solutions with content from trusted and expert voices in the community.
Read MoreWhat the Future Holds
Russia invading the Ukraine, Israel’s assault on occupied Gaza, extreme weather flare-ups, airplane catastrophes—these are just some of the geopolitical and natural events that threaten the stability of the world system. With the chaos in the world of late, what lessons are there to learn to survive in the future? And I am not necessarily referring to the apocalyptic zombie future.
Read MoreAirlines in the Clouds
AirVault recently announced that Frontier Airlines has licensed the AirVault Records Management Solution as its new, web-based record management system for aircraft maintenance and business operations.
Read MoreResearch Articles Needed for Conference
Research articles are being accepted for the Second International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication and
Information Technology – CCIT 2014 organized by Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors (IRED) at University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. This event brings together innovative academics and industrial experts to a common forum.