Mark Your Calendars
There are several exciting educational opportunities available this year for professionals to enhance their skills and topical knowledge. Take a moment to review the event descriptions to find the one(s) that fill your needs.
Read MoreTechnology is Educating Our Future Leaders
We all know that technology is changing daily and it is hard for us in the profession to stay abreast of new challenges and solutions. But what about the teachers? Teachers in college, teachers in high school, and even teacher’s in elementary school face the same challenge to stay technologically current after creating and preparing classroom activities and assessing students’ learning.
Read MoreNew Library Management Solution Released
Ex Libris Alma, the next-generation library management solution by ex Libris Group has been released.
Read MoreThe Clouds Are Exploding
Even with the explosion of information we continue to find that piece of information that we are looking for – with plenty of room left to store data, pictures, music, and video. Is this because of the cloud storage? Some don’t think so.
Read MoreEBSCO Discovery Service Goes Down Under
Australian University, Deakin, has selected EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) to improve the student experience and provide innovative access to scholarly information.
Read MoreOnline Stock News Service Launched
hakia’s latest attempt to leave their mark online comes in the form of SENSEnews, an online service able to provide insight into the implied value of stocks relative to their current prices.
Read MoreEstablishing a Usable Metadata Model
We all know that one of the biggest hurdles in implementing an effective content management application is to establish a usable metadata model. It is a waste of time to have a repository of data that users cannot search and access information. Building a strong foundation – taxonomy — to index against makes your data truly findable and useable.
Read MoreTwo Non-Profits Partner to Expand Library Management Services
OCLC and Amigos Library Services, two leading nonprofit library membership organizations, have entered into a new partnership to provide libraries with expanded implementation, training and education services for OCLC’s new Web-scale Management Services.
Read MoreUsing Taxonomies to Create Business Opportunities
The economics of the Web have reversed the original business model for online information upon which businesses like LexisNexis and Dialog were built. Through those services, users paid up to $4 for individual articles from daily newspapers that originally cost 25 cents on the newsstand. That model is obviously dead today, where the cost of an individual article – even articles from leading trade magazines and scholarly journals – is effectively zero. Does that mean that publishers, aggregators, and other content owners should police the Web to insure their content is not freely distributed? Not at all – one needs only look at the recent case of Wikileaks to see that it will be impossible to keep any content from showing up freely on the Web. As they say, the Genie is already out of the bottle, so the only logical step is figuring out how to make money in the current environment. This is where taxonomies can add value – by enabling the creation of new information products that connect disparate pieces of content with high-value applications and new markets.
Read MoreData Management #1 Technology for Insurance Industry
In a list of six hot technologies that will demand carriers’ attention during the coming year and impact the insurance industry in 2011, data management led the pack.
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