Posts Tagged ‘Library’
Share the Learning
Internet Librarian will be celebrating their 20th anniversary at the 2016 conference in October in Monterey, California. For 20 years, Internet Librarians have been leading innovation and willing to try new and different technologies. What makes them different? They share their experiments and learnings so the information profession as a whole continues to expand. Not sure if…
Read MoreSpecial Libraries Association Conference Features Taxonomy Cafe
The Taxonomy Cafe is taking place at the Special Libraries Association (SLA) annual conference in just a few weeks. In this unique workshop, presenters will give 30-minute case studies of taxonomy implementations. They will cover how and why their organizations decided to implement taxonomies, their approaches to implementation, lessons learned, and current status. Janice Keeler is one…
Read MoreNew Director of World’s Largest Library
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced the appointment of Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan as the next director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The American Library Association’s publication, District Dispatch, brought this news to us in their article, “New director named for the U.S. National Library of Medicine.” As director, Dr. Brennan will…
Read MoreStrengthening the Data
A leading index of open-access journals may shrink by more than one-quarter after an effort to exclude questionable and inactive publishers. This interesting information came to us from Nature in their article, “Open-access index delists thousands of journals.” The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is following up on its promise of two years ago that it would…
Read MoreAn Experience in Connections
Last year, the Public Library of Science (PLOS) shared their experience in exploring how they might link PLOS Subject Area terms to related concepts outside the PLOS publishing platform. In subsequent conversations, they realized some obvious next steps with regard to linked data. This interesting information came to us from the PLOS blog in their article, “PLOS…
Read MoreExpanded Digital Library Enhances Findings
HathiTrust Research Center has expanded its services to now support computational research of the world’s largest digital library collection housed by HathiTrust. This interesting news came to us from their press release, “One of the world’s largest digital libraries opens doors to text mining scholars.” Previously scholars could only data mine the open-source part of…
Read MoreLibrarian of Congress Nominee Breaking Glass Ceilings
In February 2016, President Barack Obama nominated Carla D. Hayden, CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, for the open Librarian of Congress position. In the library’s 216-year history, there have been only 13 Librarians of Congress. Information Today brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “The Next Librarian of Congress: History…
Read MoreNew Partnership Increases Access
A new partnership was recently announced between 1science and EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO). Together they will provide academic libraries access to a vast number of openly accessible scholarly articles when performing a search in EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Library Technology Guides brought this interesting information to us in their article, “1science and EBSCO Information Services announce…
Read MoreEBSCO and A New Open Source Project
A new initiative is underway to create open-source software for academic libraries. The project is in collaboration with Index Data and Kauli OLE, and its main goal is to allow libraries to pick and choose what functional software and patron-facing discovery services they need, rather than having to buy a fully bundled package. Although it’s still…
Read MoreNew Partnership Focuses on Collaboration
The University of California Press (UCP) and California Digital Library (CDL) have partnered with Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (CKF) to develop Editoria, a new open source, digital-first book production platform. The University of California Press brought this news to us in their blog post titled, “University of California Press and California Digital Library to Partner with Collaborative Knowledge Foundation to…
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