Posts Tagged ‘Library’
Classic Posts Summer – Entertaining Video by Librarians Tells a Story
Our regular blogger is out of commission while recovering from surgery. Please enjoy this classic blog post and be sure to watch the video! Entertaining Video by Librarians Tells a Story June 9, 2010 – Timely and entertaining, this home-made video also stresses the importance of proper indexing and cataloging. Students and faculty from the…
Read MoreThe Power of a Library
You can’t be in the world of information science and not appreciate libraries of any form or fashion. This interesting one was brought to our attention by The Scholarly Kitchen in their article, “The Trash Library of Ankara.” Unique and weird libraries are my favorite. Whether it is the library of mass destruction created from…
Read MoreMovie Night Looks Different
Streaming has been popular for awhile, but with the social distancing and self-quarantining it has increased exponentially. Consumers have thousands of movies and shows at their fingertips, available anywhere at any time across multiple various services such as Apple TV+, Netflix, Hulu and Wavo. This interesting information came to us from Broadcast Pro in their article,…
Read MoreCOVID-19 Mini Thesaurus Available
Access Innovations has created a COVID-19 mini-thesaurus and it is freely available to everyone. It can be downloaded here. This valuable resource will help those professionals who are seeking to comprehensively search for information about COVID-19 targets. As new areas of scientific research, like COVID-19, rapidly emerge and evolve, it is important to incorporate proper…
Read MoreClassification and Taxonomies
Taxonomies and classification. These two terminologies are frequently used interchangeably but they are not the same thing. It could be very confusing to understand the difference between taxonomy and classification, yet it is very important to do so. Understanding the similarities and the differences could help clear the confusion. Taxonomy is the discipline of classifying something,…
Read MoreDigital Library – Free and Searchable
The UC Berkeley Library recently launched its Digital Collections website. This portal into the Library’s growing collection of digitized materials is fully searchable and free to all. This information came to us from Info Docket in their article, “UC Berkeley Library Launches its New Digital Collections Website.” Under a permanent agreement between the student paper and the Library,…
Read MoreLibraries are Giving Open Lending
All emergency response should involve books. This interesting topic came to us from Publisher’s Lunch in their article, “Internet Archive Grants Itself Emergency Copyright Powers for Uncontrolled Digital Lending.” This week the Internet Archive opened the National Emergency Library—a digital collection of 1.4 million books that anyone, anywhere in the world, can check out for…
Read MoreThe Effect of the Coronavirus on Libraries
The thought of closing libraries feels like a chapter in the worst apocalyptic novel we have ever read. But this is our current reality, for now. This interesting topic came to us from Wired in their article, “Covid-19’s Impact on Libraries Goes Beyond Books.” The Library of Congress helped lead the charge by announcing that it…
Read MoreNew Product Marries Libraries and Machine Learning
San Francisco-based Fast.ai recently released version 1.0 of “fastai,” a set of code libraries designed to radically simplify writing machine learning tasks. ZD Net brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Fast.ai’s software could radically democratize AI.” Radical and library are not two words commonly seen together, but this new product, which is built…
Read MoreNew Partnership Improves Academic Library Access
SAGE Publishing recently acquired Lean Library and its associated products to promote the value of the academic library to patrons. This interesting information came to us from Sage Publishing in their article, “SAGE Publishing acquires Lean Library to bring library services into the patrons’ workflow.” In research and academic libraries, getting access to databases with licensed material…
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